Hacking Web Archives

By Achim Koh | Published: September 2, 2016

1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 Lisa’s note: The first PressForward post I want to share comes from Jefferson Bailey, who discusses the various ways in which library and archive datasets have been encouraging researchers to use their datasets. I’m sharing this post with you because it gives an interesting insight into some of the places where you might look for “datasets’ to include in your dataset project. It also offers a first-hand account of the kind of work that becomes possible when data from libraries and archives is made available to the public.

2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 Excerpt: 

4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 0 The awkward teenage years of the web archive are over. It is now 27 years since Tim Berners-Lee created the web and 20 years since we at Internet Archive set out to systematically archive web content. As the web gains evermore “historicity” (i.e., it’s old and getting older — just like you!), it is increasingly recognized as a valuable historical record of interest to researchers and others working to study it at scale.

5 Leave a comment on paragraph 5 0 Thus, it has been exciting to see — and for us to support and participate in — a number of recent efforts in the scholarly and library/archives communities to hold hackathons and datathons focused on getting web archives into the hands of research and users. The events have served to help build a collaborative framework to encourage more use, more exploration, more tools and services, and more hacking (and similar levels of the sometime-maligned-but-ever-valuable yacking) to support research use of web archives. Get the data to the people!

6 Leave a comment on paragraph 6 0 …
Read more at: https://blog.archive.org/2016/08/31/hacking-web-archives/

This entry was posted in PressForward. Bookmark the permalink. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

Additional comments powered byBackType

  • Archives

  • Welcome to Digital Praxis 2016-2017

    Encouraging students think about the impact advancements in digital technology have on the future of scholarship from the moment they enter the Graduate Center, the Digital Praxis Seminar is a year-long sequence of two three-credit courses that familiarize students with a variety of digital tools and methods through lectures offered by high-profile scholars and technologists, hands-on workshops, and collaborative projects. Students enrolled in the two-course sequence will complete their first year at the GC having been introduced to a broad range of ways to critically evaluate and incorporate digital technologies in their academic research and teaching. In addition, they will have explored a particular area of digital scholarship and/or pedagogy of interest to them, produced a digital project in collaboration with fellow students, and established a digital portfolio that can be used to display their work. The two connected three-credit courses will be offered during the Fall and Spring semesters as MALS classes for master’s students and Interdisciplinary Studies courses for doctoral students.

    The syllabus for the course can be found at cuny.is/dps17.

  • Categories

Skip to toolbar