ArchiveWeb: collaboratively extending and exploring web archive collections—How would you like to work with your collections?

Fernando, Zeon Trevor; Marenzi, Ivana; Nejdl, Wolfgang

doi:10.1007/s00799-016-0206-2

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“…However, enabling research and engaging scholarly use of web archives remains a challenge, as highlighted in a number of initiatives and reports (Dougherty & Meyer, ; Hockx‐Yu, ; Meyer, Thomas, & Schroeder, ; Nielsen, ; Stirling, Chevallier, & Illien, ; Truman, ). Emerging work approaches this challenge through the development of tools or solutions for specific use cases (Farag, Lee, & Fox, ; Fernando, Marenzi, & Nejdl, ).…”

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confidence: 99%

If these crawls could talk: Studying and documenting web archives provenance

Maemura

Worby

Milligan

et al. 2018

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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The increasing use and prominence of web archives raises the urgency of establishing mechanisms for transparency in the making of web archives to facilitate the process of evaluating a web archive's provenance, scoping, and absences. Some choices and process events are captured automatically, but their interactions are not currently well understood or documented.This study examines the decision space of web archives and its role in shaping what is and what is not captured in the web archiving process. By comparing how three different web archives collections were created and documented, we investigate how curatorial decisions interact with technical and external factors and we compare commonalities and differences.The findings reveal the need to understand both the social and technical context that shapes those decisions and the ways in which these individual decisions interact. Based on the study, we propose a framework for documenting key dimensions of a collection that addresses the situated nature of the organizational context, technical specificities, and unique characteristics of web materials that are the focus of a collection. The framework enables future researchers to undertake empirical work studying the process of creating web archives collections in different contexts.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

If these crawls could talk: Studying and documenting web archives provenance

Maemura

Worby

Milligan

et al. 2018

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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“…Multimedia features in B: Using the Wikipedia Cross-lingual Image Analysis tool 5 , it became evident that images containing the UK map and the referendum ballot paper were shared most frequently across languages.…”

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“…[13], [11] for recent studies on cross-lingual content propagation and editing activity of multilingual users). Till now only few studies focus on analyzing and effectively supporting the needs of researchers who conduct research on temporal content [5], [15] and create event-centric temporal collections [7], [6], [17]. Whereas existing works on temporal collections focus on the monolingual case, working patterns and requirements of researchers analyzing multilingual temporal context remain largely non-investigated.…”

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Towards Better Understanding Researcher Strategies in Cross-Lingual Event Analytics

Gottschalk

Bernacchi²,

Rogers

et al. 2018

Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge

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With an increasing amount of information on globally important events, there is a growing demand for efficient analytics of multilingual event-centric information. Such analytics is particularly challenging due to the large amount of content, the event dynamics and the language barrier. Although memory institutions increasingly collect event-centric Web content in different languages, very little is known about the strategies of researchers who conduct analytics of such content. In this paper we present researchers' strategies for the content, method and feature selection in the context of cross-lingual event-centric analytics observed in two case studies on multilingual Wikipedia. We discuss the influence factors for these strategies, the findings enabled by the adopted methods along with the current limitations and provide recommendations for services supporting researchers in cross-lingual event-centric analytics.

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“…In addition to projects that took a qualitative approach in researching needs in relation to web archiving, see e.g. Stirling et al (2012) , Dougherty & Meyer (2014) or Fernando et al (2018), a number of studies have been published that analyse the needs of web archive users.…”

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confidence: 99%

Requirements and Desiderata for the Scholary Use of Web Archives

Vlassenroot

Chambers²,

Geeraert

et al. 2020

SPIR

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The web and online information has become of utmost importance. However, the short lifespan of online data (with 40% of content being removed after 1 year) poses serious challenges for preserving and safeguarding digital heritage and information. Hence, web or media historians, sociologists or digital scholars must learn to "dig" in online sources such as the Internet Archive or national web archives in order to find relevant research material. In this paper, we explore the requirements of researchers working with web archives and outline how they perceive the limitations and possibilities of using the archived web as a data resource, using survey data (n=154). We asked researchers with and without experience in working with web archives for, amongst others, the search functionalities and selection and access criteria they require. Given that archived web content is relatively new research material, new skills need to be acquired to work with this content which is not something evident or something every researcher is willing to do. Yakel & Thores (2003) point to three distinct forms of knowledge required to work effectively with these sources: (i) domain (subject) knowledge, (ii) artifactual literacy, and their own concept of (iii) archival intelligence. In addition to arriving at significant findings that demonstrate the relationship between researcher’s domain (subject) knowledge, archival intelligence and use frequency of web archives, this study discusses the limitations of using the archived web as a data resource and concludes with actions to overcome these hurdles and fulfill the desiderata of scholars.

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ArchiveWeb: collaboratively extending and exploring web archive collections—How would you like to work with your collections?

Cited by 6 publications

References 12 publications

If these crawls could talk: Studying and documenting web archives provenance

If these crawls could talk: Studying and documenting web archives provenance

Towards Better Understanding Researcher Strategies in Cross-Lingual Event Analytics

Requirements and Desiderata for the Scholary Use of Web Archives

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