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SUMMARY:Building a Digital Archive of Soviet Periodicals: Tools\, Workflow
 s\, and AI Agents for Vsesvit
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UID:https://cdh.princeton.edu/events/2026/12/building-a-digital-archive-of
 -soviet-periodicals-tools-workflows-and-ai-agents-for-vsesvit/
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n    \n        \n        Lunch will be provided for those
  who register.Zoom link will be provided for remote participants.\n    \n
 \n\n\n  Thousands of Soviet-era journals have been scanned\, but a scan is
 n’t data yet. This hands-on workshop follows one digital periodical proj
 ect from bibliography to full text and analytic exploration\, moving from 
 manual methods to experiments with AI agents.Our case study is the digital
  archive of Vsesvit (“The Universe”)\, a Kyiv journal of world literat
 ure in Ukrainian translation (vsesvit.vercel.app). Workshop participants w
 ill explore this rich collection and its tools for data analysis – inclu
 ding advanced search\, charts\, network graphs\, and chat – as well as t
 he open-source publishing framework that can be used by other scholars wis
 hing to build a similar resource.This event is co-hosted by the CDH Slavic
  Digital Humanities Working Group and PIIRS Program in Russian\, East Euro
 pean and Eurasian Studies.Speakers:Valeriia Korotkova is a Digital Humanit
 ies and data specialist at Stanford University Libraries. She works on pre
 serving cultural collections and making them accessible. She develops Vses
 vit: Digital Archive and is a data specialist for the Tamizdat Project\, a
  digital archive of banned and unofficial publications from the Cold War t
 o today.Georgii Korotkov is a PhD candidate in Slavic Languages and Litera
 tures at Stanford\, with a minor in Computer Science. He studies Soviet an
 d Eastern European translation journals as sites of literary and cultural 
 exchange\, using NLP\, network analysis and full-stack development. His la
 test article\, “Reader-scale Text Mining and Visualization in the Second
 ary ELA Classroom\,” appeared in the Journal of Interactive Technology a
 nd Pedagogy.\n\n\nhttps://cdh.princeton.edu/events/2026/12/building-a-digi
 tal-archive-of-soviet-periodicals-tools-workflows-and-ai-agents-for-vsesvi
 t/
LOCATION:Center for Digital Humanities\, Firestone Library\, Floor B
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