WDPD watch party – iPres 2023 keynote Quinn Dombrowski

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Join us online on World Digital Preservation Day in the Australasian time zone to watch a recording of the iPres 2023 Keynote presentation by Quinn Dombrowski on her work with SUCHO (Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online) and lessons learned about the preservation of digital data in a crisis. This will be followed by a sneak preview of the DPC’s Global Bit List of Endangered Digital Species for 2023.

Quinn Dombrowski – iPres Illinois keynote 22 September 2023

Takes All Kinds: Grassroots Digital Preservation in a Crisis and Beyond

Digital preservation is like any other kind of preservation: it rarely happens by itself, is crucially dependent on choices made by people, and diverse perspectives and priorities increase the amount of material that will survive. Unfortunately, widespread misperceptions about digital content — including the idea that surely it’s all backed up safely in “the cloud” and requires no further human intervention — make it easy for individuals to forego taking proactive steps to preserve this material.

This presentation highlights the digital preservation work done through Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO), an initiative begun shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. In the first few months of the war, SUCHO web archived over 50 TB of data from over 5,000 Ukrainian cultural heritage websites, bringing together people with technical expertise, those with relevant linguistic skills, and volunteers of all ages with no specialized skills beyond a desire to help. 18 months into SUCHO, what lessons can the digital preservation community take from SUCHO’s rapid-response, volunteer-driven approach? What are its limits? Whether digital data is at risk due to international crises, Big Tech policy changes, or poor documentation, cultivating a sense of responsibility and empowerment in a broader public has the potential for growing the community of people engaged with digital preservation, and the diversity of material that can be secured for future generations.

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The DPC Community is guided by the values set out in our Strategic Plan and aims to be respectful, welcoming, inclusive and transparent. It encourages diversity in all its forms and is committed to being accessible to everyone who wishes to engage with the topic of digital preservation. The DPC asks all those who are part of this community and/or attending a DPC event be positive, accepting, and sensitive to the needs and feelings of others in alignment with our DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy.