This presentation was delivered at the LD4 virtual conference, 11 July 2023.
As three volunteers for the non-profit Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) initiative, we are applying Wikidata to many aspects of work supporting Ukrainian cultural heritage institutions. We will discuss three interconnected applications:/="/">/="/">First, we will discuss the development of a Google Sheets list of Ukrainian cultural heritage institutions from Wikidata queries which enabled SUCHO to rapidly develop a working inventory of institutions whose websites needed emergency archiving, and which continued to grow throughout the year and inform SUCHO’s developing activities./="/">/="/">Then, we will discuss the development of a Baserow instance to transform that data into a dataset describing the collection of web-scraped cultural heritage websites SUCHO has created over the past year. This information will enable both volunteers with SUCHO and users interacting with the web-archived sites to search the large number of files, enabling better research and preservation activity./="/">/="/">Finally, we will discuss the cleaning of data exported from Wikidata queries and the challenges of ingesting augmented data back to Wikidata, both from a syntactic standpoint as it relates to customized data needed by SUCHO and the ethical concerns of revealing new data to bad actors during wartime as the conflict continues to develop.
