The Ukrainian Cultural Foundation's grant ‘Restoration of cultural and artistic activities’ (Lot No 2 ‘Short-term cultural and artistic projects’) provided financial support for the project of the Scientific Archive of the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine ‘Digital Memory Storage. The Archive of Viktor Petrov (Domontovych).
The project lasted for two months (August-September 2024), and in this short period of time we managed to implement it at the proper level and in a significant amount. More than 32,000 scans of documents from the Viktor Petrov (Domontovych) paper collection were made.
Collection's documents were transferred to new archival boxes.
The part of the fund's scanned documents, which is displayed on the website, has been described in detail by a team of specialists - an annotated description has been created in Excel tables.
The part of the foundation's scanned documents that are available on the website has been described in detail by a team of specialists, who have created a database in Excel spreadsheets.
Candidates of historical sciences Valentina Korpusova, Nataliya Abashina, Oleg Petrauskas and Viktoriya Sergienko were involved in describing cases and writing annotations. On a volunteer basis, Yuliya Karpets, a graduate student from the Department of Literary Studies of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and Tamara Kutsaieva, candidate of historical sciences, joined the project.
Also Dr Vytautas Rinkevičius, Lithuanian linguist, Balticist, Associate Professor of Baltic Studies at the Institute of Baltic Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University. Vytautas helped to understand the grammar of the (Old) Prussian language and wrote an annotation to this chapter. Sophia Shevchenko, Kristina Dudar, Vladyslava Mykhaylyk, Olga Babinets, and Oleksandra Kharchenko, 1st-year students of the Faculty of History of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, helped to preliminarily analyze the materials for Prussian language grammar as a part of their archival practice.
Additional annotations for individual categories were written by Oleksandra Buzko, Yaroslav Volodarts-Urbanovych and Halyna Stanytsyna. Archivists Daryna Romanenko and Olha Kovalchuk and student Oleksandr Buzko assisted the project. Vira Pavlova, Anzhelika Kolesnychenko, Serhiy Pavlenko, Vitaly Kozyuba, Yuriy Boltryk, Olena Fialko, Anna-Maria Kucherenko, Olha Martyniuk, Svitlana Zinovieva, Olena Dzneladze, Yulia Khodukina and Iryna Pelypenko contributed with advice and consultations.
Andrii Portnov, Professor of Ukrainian History at the European University of Viadrina, Director of the Centre for Polish and Ukrainian Studies helped with communication and promotion of the project.
The main work lasted for a month, from 1 to 30 August 2024, in a remote format: all project participants had their own folder on Google Drive, where they worked with the digitalised documents of the foundation in an Excel spreadsheet, filling in the data, detailing on the old imperfect description of the foundation.
Thus, during the project, the existing description of the paper collection, the description of negatives on glass was improved. And a separate description of Viktor Petrov's correspondence were created.
All materials are presented on the website in two languages - Ukrainian and English.
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