 Hi, I'm Quinn Nabrowski, academic technology specialist at Stanford Libraries and the Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages at Stanford University. I'm one of the three co-founders of SUCHO, Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage, online. The first weekend after Russia invaded Ukraine, Anna Kias posted a tweet about a data rescue effort that she was imagining focused on museum cultural heritage, specifically related to the music collections that have been digitized. On the other side of the world, Indiana, Austria, Sebastian Maestrovich saw this tweet and had some ideas about tools that she could use, specifically the free open source web recorder software. And in California, I saw it too. And I also wondered if we could do more faster. And the three of us got together that Monday, along with a few other colleagues. And on Tuesday, we launched SUCHO, doing everything all at the same time, writing tutorials, setting up a slack instance, making a website. And in the first day, we had 400 people volunteer to archive Ukrainian cultural heritage websites. Now, this is the first time, as far as we can tell, that there's been an effort at this scale to archive cultural heritage materials, you know, digitally during a war. But it's not without precedent in terms of digital humanities, rapid response. And for more on that, I will turn it over to Alex. There are, of course, whenever we try to, you know, understand a phenomenon, there's many genealogies always to be drawn. That's more often the case than not. This one in particular is one is the genealogy of us coming together as librarians and technologists in the world of at least the academy. And it's something, and at least in the North Atlantic world, the specific United States and Canada, even more so specifically. About 2016, the way that I tell myself this story, but of course, again, like with all genealogies, there's always, you can always go further back, further wider, etc. Just one particular way of telling a story is that around 2000s, after Trump won, one of the things that Trump wanted to do, Donald Trump, one of the things he wanted to do was to, as part of his party line, was to undermine the EPA and the Environmental Protection Agency. And all of a sudden, servers where EPA data had been housed were under threat. And a group of librarians got together to do a data rescue of the servers creating copies that went to other universities in the United States and some servers sitting outside the universities. You can find this project and effort under hashtag that I rescued. And of course, now they have continued doing exactly that type of work, right? Trying to save our specific data sets. It's slightly different than the Sutra, which is going to have to worry about our guests. But this is very inspiring to many of us. And when the Eureka Maria hit Puerto Rico, in my place of work at Columbia University, we wanted to help out. We wanted to do something similar to that. We wanted to follow in that example. What we did was we organized a mapathon to help the Red Cross reconstruct the map of the island, which they will need in order to be able to deliver much needed aid to parts of the island that were very damaged. And we knew how to do everything, right? We knew how to set up a workshop or a pizza. We knew how to teach the workshop. And we were using in particular OSM's task manager tool, which is the tool that a lot of people use on the side of the Atlantic for this type of task. But we didn't stop there. One of the things that we tried to do then is other folks in our community, in our library and technologies and scholarly communities, they wanted to do something similar where we thought we would start talking behind the scenes, helping out people put together a little like here, the step by step of how you set it up. So just to help people do it faster, even though we all have the skills, it always helps when somebody does the prep for you. This is like a course materials type stuff, models for the posters and that kind of stuff. But so this kind of normal behavior online amongst us in our community actually can be leveraged here. Since March, we've had over 1300 volunteers, mostly from North America and Western Europe, volunteer to archive Ukrainian cultural heritage websites. Now we're defining cultural heritage really broadly. So libraries, archives, galleries, museums, but also other places where people experience cultural heritage in their day to day life. So things like children's museums and libraries, children's after school programs, and even fan fiction archives are all in scope for what we're looking for. We've had an open forum where anyone can submit a link. But we've also been looking for links in other ways we've used wiki data as a way to try to find museums and we've even had volunteers digitally walking through the streets of cities under attack, looking for the cultural heritage icon or the museum icon on Google maps. We've used a variety of different tools and methods for archiving sites. We send all of the URLs that we get to the way back machine and we have people checking to make sure that the sites are thoroughly crawled not just the front pages, but things two or three or more layers deep. We've also been using the open source web recorder tools as a cornerstone of what we've been doing, where people are using their own laptops, and a friendly, easy to use, you know, a system called browser tricks cloud that is literally as easy as filling out a web form. You can get a high fidelity archive of a site. There's also a browser plugin that you can use part of the web recorder suite, where you can manually click through sites that are highly interactive or have maps or other components that need human interaction in order to be fully captured. And using things like browser tricks cloud has also allowed us to bring in more kinds of volunteers. Many of our volunteers come from the library and museum world. We also have senior citizens who have retired and have time on their hands and want to help, and even children who want to do something to help Ukraine in this war. My eight year old son Sam really enjoys going through our giant spreadsheet and finding sites in areas that are, you know, particularly critical right now to be able to capture with browser trace cloud. Next, I'll turn it over to Anna for a little bit about her experience volunteering with soup show. Hello, my name is honor, I am a librarian for Russian and Belarusian collections at Harvard library. All Ukraine has affected me and not only personally but also professionally. And I'm sure it's true for anyone whose work involves dealing with slavic studies. And from the very beginning, I had this urge to, to do something to help, but what can a slavic librarian do, especially the one based in the West. The call for volunteers came out for this new project saving Ukrainian cultural heritage online. I decided to go ahead and apply, and I signed up, and my social slack invitation came on March 1, which means it was were just one week into the war. That was the most difficult time on the emotional level. What followed were three months of hard work, which were both exciting and hard ranging. And I learned a lot, and I met people from various countries and all walks of life, who are absolutely committed to helping Ukraine in any way possible, and to provide intellectual and informational resistance to the efforts by the Russian government to erase Ukrainian identity and its culture. As a librarian whose background is mostly in traditional areas of the various ship like collection development cataloging, but also curating born digital collections and web archives. I was thankfully able to find a reason so which are in which I could apply my skills and expertise. Currently one major area of such a work in which I'm involved is metadata. Plus, there are two curatorial sub projects, which I will also measure here. So the metadata work, one of the directions of such a work in addition to just web archiving entire sites is gathering data and files from major archive collections and adding them to an internet archive collection for easier discovery. Those files include images, data, text, and video files. When these files get archived, they get archived with partial or incomplete or inconsistent metadata descriptions. And so, our group in Sucho, which is led by Kim Martin and Anna Keyes, is working on creating and editing this metadata. We had to develop the metadata structure and then make decisions regarding description principles, for example, whether to use control vocabulary or free text. We decided to use control vocabulary based on the Library of Congress subject headaches, combining more detailed subjects into sort of wider categories. My duties in Sucho metadata work is to standardize the application of subject headaches. And to that end, I maintain a list of headaches to be used. Of course, the metadata work for a project of this scale, it's quite huge, is quite different from regular cataloging. It is being done by a group of volunteers who may not necessarily have had any type of professional cataloging training or library training, for that matter. However, since the material being archived so large, you have to work with people who are willing to dedicate their time and effort to it. Of course, some training needed to be done and training materials also needed to be developed. So this project is currently still underway. Another project that I'm involved in on Sucho at the moment is Sucho Gallery. That project is led by Anna Keyes. We create and make a gallery that will feature images, media text, etc., from Ukrainian cultural heritage institutions whose websites we are archiving. And the gallery will be publicized widely in order to promote Ukrainian cultural heritage through featuring some objects from institutional websites that we archive, but also in order to fundraise for the institutions for materials they may need during the war. We also have heard from some Ukrainian educational institutions and community groups both inside and outside Ukraine that these materials could be used for teaching and learning about Ukraine, and that they may otherwise be unavailable. I am actively participating in the development of the gallery concept, metadata structure, and content selection. And one more curatorial project that I'm involved in on Sucho has to do with building a collection of memes related to the Russo-Ukrainian war. The war brought about a real proliferation of these memes, and they are an important born digital ephemera and a primary source for research into the society's response to the war. And they touch on a wide array of issues from the general war progress to ridiculing of the enemy troops, describing the details of the diplomatic war work, and relations between the world leaders, the economic effects of the war, the propaganda and media in Russia, etc., etc., etc. Basically, any striking news piece becomes a meme the very same day, and any politician can become a character in a meme. Nothing, and no one is safe. The meme collecting is done by manual submission of individual memes via a Google form, and also by automatic scraping of some Twitter and Telegram accounts that are specifically dedicated to Ukrainian war memes, believe it or not, there are quite a few of those. So, with Queen Dombrovsky and Simon Wiles, we are working on the way to present this collection in an interactive way online that will make it accessible for both researchers and the general public. So, without my SUCHO Library volunteer experience today, I'd like to say that for me SUCHO has been sort of an ideal workplace where creativity reigns, decisions are made quickly, technical issues are resolved very quickly and effectively, and true collaboration is the rule of the game. It's kind of like utopia of sorts. However, behind all this, there is the poignant realization, you know, I wish there was no reason for this project to exist. I wish we didn't need to do any of this. But at this point, it feels good to be able to try to make a difference. So the work on SUCHO continues. Our ultimate long term goal here is digital repatriation. These aren't our archives to decide what happens to them and we absolutely do not want to be creating a safe archive of Ukrainian cultural heritage for people to study in the west while the country is destroyed. Our goal is to turn these archives over to the Ukrainian cultural heritage community at the end of the war, see what they need and help them use these archives as a way to rebuild. SUCHO is a strange project. Our best case scenario is for all of these archives to never be needed. Nothing would make us happier than to see that all the websites are still online at the end of the war, and everyone who built them and takes care of them is alive and well and ready to resume their work. And I have evidence that suggests that's not going to happen. There are sites that have gone down and haven't come back up. And the war is continuing. One of the things that is most disturbing right now for us working on SUCHO is seeing the Ukraine fatigue in the new cycle and especially with some of the tech companies that supported the project in their early days. This really is a moment of transition where the project is shifting from being an effort of individual people supported, you know, technically and financially by tech companies, you know, to a longer term partnership with libraries that have been ramping up their efforts and infrastructure and strategies and thinking for the long term in order to support Ukraine in this war. And so in the coming months, you know, we will be continuing our partnerships with libraries to mirror our archives with organizations like the German National Research Department of Architecture to provide some of our cloud services. And, you know, even if it's not in the news every night, you know the the war in Ukraine continues and SUCHO's work continues. We have many more sites to archive we're continuing to track memes we're working on the galleries. And we'd love for you too. Join us on our website's SUCHO.org. There is a form that you can sign up to volunteer and we have a waiting list right now but we're hoping to open it up to people in waves over the summer because there's still a lot to do. So thank you so much for your time.