Designing MemorialShoah: Infrastructure, Mediation, and Sustainability in a Participatory Digital Memorial

The MemorialShoah digital memorial documents the stories of families persecuted in Luxembourg during World War II. Produced in collaboration with the Fondation Luxembourgeoise pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, this project relies on contributions from civil society authors who often have limited technical backgrounds. To facilitate scientific writing in three languages from non-academic people, we simplified our technical infrastructure, and we allow authors to work in a familiar environment: Word documents, Google Forms, Google Drive and Zotero. 

This approach minimizes the learning curve. Once content has been reviewed and approved for publication, a Django backend automates the publication, synchronizing narrative texts with Zotero metadata and individual biographical details collected via Google Forms.

This presentation outlines the workflow for managing content and describes the transition toward a fully static, sustainable architecture.

The event will be launched online. To receive an invitation to participate in events, please contact Sofia Andrusyshyn via email: s.andrusyshyn@lvivcenter.org.ua. Working language: English with simultaneous interpretation to Ukrainian. 

The event will take place within a series of seminars and workshops around specific cases of urban history digital platforms/projects, "Urban History Digital Infrastructures: Sharing Expertise and Networking Cities", organized by Center for Urban History, with the support of the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe at the University of St.Gallen.