For the third year in a row, the Ukraine War Archive is opening up its platform to the public. During the festival, project analysts will demonstrate how the repository of partner materials and the research tool – developed by the UWA team – function in practice.
Among the partner materials, visitors will be able to view footage, explore in-depth interviews, photographs and transcripts. This year, the UWA will also present Lenses – a tool designed for working with open-source materials. Lenses aggregates data daily from over 3,500 Telegram channels, enabling users to search through transcripts of Telegram posts. The channels are thematically categorised as Russian, pro-Russian, Ukrainian, pro-Ukrainian, so-called L/DPR, foreign, regional Ukrainian, and personal pages of bloggers or war correspondents. Lenses also includes a small segment of Russian state propaganda for analysis.
The tool stores not only audiovisual or textual content – it also provides direct links to the original sources, such as the original post or channel. Content collection is configured in line with the Berkeley protocol, and, when needed, allows for the identification of metadata for each saved channel, post, or embedded content.
The coordinator of the Ukraine War Archive Viewing Room is analyst Anton Tribe.
The event may be of interest to:
– human rights activist;
– researchers;
– archivists;
– journalists;
– documenters;
– filmmakers;
– artists;
– historians.
Opening hours: 7–12 June, 12:00–20:00.
Zhovten cinema, Seans hall
Information partners of the UKRAINE WAR ARCHIVE/EVIDENCE programme: Slidstvo.Info, Rubryka, Radio Svoboda, Gwara Media.
The 22nd Docudays UA is held with the financial support of the European Union, the Embassy of Sweden in Ukraine, International Renaissance Foundation. The opinions, conclusions, or recommendations do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union, the governments, or organisations of these countries. Responsibility for the content of the publication lies exclusively with the authors and editors of the publication.
