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Collaborative COVID-19 Memory Banks: History and Challenges

Tizian Zumthurm, Marco Gabellini, ”Collaborative COVID-19 Memory Banks: History and Challenges,” Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History blog, January 19, 2021.

Report of the international workshop held on 26 November 2020 with experts from European universities who have initiated public COVID-19 platforms to collect testimonies.

coronarchiv

coronarchiv is a joint public history project of the Universities of Hamburg, Bochum and Gießen in cooperation with the Medical History Museum Hamburg and the Museum for Hamburg History.

The aim of the coronarchiv is the continuous collection, archiving, contextualization and long-term provision of personal memories and found objects related to the corona crisis. In principle, this can be anything that is available digitally or can be digitized: from texts such as diaries, letters, e-mails, poems, articles in newspapers and magazines, shopping lists, job reports, notices, warnings, regulations on photos, drawings, pictures, Videos, notices, chats and social media posts up to voice messages, songs and readings. Submissions are being accepted through May 15, 2020.