Digital Archives of the Holodomor of 1932–1933 in Ukraine (Holodomor Digital Archives) As a Universal Source Network Resource: Documentary and Visual Segments of the Project

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to highlight the content model and a structure of the knowledge base of the universal source network resource Holodomor Digital Archives, created in 2020 on the basis of its prototypes in the early 2000s (Electronic Holodomor Archives, etc.). Particular attention is paid to the characteristics of the structure of the Archives and the features of its partially implemented documentary and visual segments.

The research methodology is based on general scientific (analysis, typology, concretization) and concrete-historical (historicalchronological, periodization, historical-systemic, critique of sources) methods.

The scientific novelty. The authors created a general structure of the Holodomor Digital Archives, which involves the wide array of diverse, multifaceted and significant sources (both textual and visual) on the basis of archival, museum and library collections, systematized them and began their publication on the resource. The pilot project Scattered and Unknown Holodomor Era Visual Documents: Kyiv Region launched in 2020 and aimed at uncovering of Holodomor era photos in museums of Kyiv region resulted in development of the research methods of museum collections for widening verified visual sources of the Holodomor era.

Conclusions. The task of the Holodomor Digital Archives as a universal network thematic resource is the integration of all relevant sources. In addition to documentary and visual segments the authors provide the publication of the full-text bibliography, scientific and fiction literature, oral history sources, audio and video records, scanned images of archival documents located side-by-side with metagraphed texts, with relevant hyperlinks to other online resources. Thus, with the help of modern digital instruments of data organization, researchers will receive an extremely representative source base of documents and materials about the Holodomor in Ukraine.