Open AccessMemorial, Podvig Naroda, Pamyat Naroda: The Experience of Creating Online Databases at Russia’s Ministry of Defense Revisited
Author(s) -
Victor Tumarkin,
AUTHOR_ID
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
bûlletenʹ kalmyckogo naučnogo centra ran
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2587-6503
DOI - 10.22162/2587-6503-2021-3-19-170-181
Subject(s) - digitization , christian ministry , destiny (iss module) , spanish civil war , publishing , political science , library science , world wide web , law , computer science , engineering , telecommunications , aerospace engineering
. The memory of the Great Patriotic War is preserved by all post-Soviet nations. In this war, virtually every family had a member lost, and his/her destiny often remained unknown. So, the Russian Ministry of Defense decided to create online combined databases. Goals. The paper considers the actual problems of digitization, systematization, law and technical implementation tackled by developers of the databases. Results. The three online resources on the Great Patriotic War — Memorial (documents on irrecoverable casualties), Podvig Naroda (Russ. ‘feat of nation’, materials on awards), and Pamyat Naroda (Russ. ‘people’s memory’, a generalizing engine containing, in addition to the above mentioned, operational data on hostilities) — made it possible to the public to gain access to the multiple documents housed by different archives. Meanwhile, the difficulties to have been settled were not reduced to huge amounts of materials to be processed only. Many documents from departmental archives have not been declassified yet. The law side of the issue does not allow publishing all information. The creation and maintenance of these systems are an important experience required for the further digitization of archived documents.