Digital Research Using Web Archives

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“Digital Research using Web Archives” is a joint workshop bringing together the leading institutions engaged with archiving and preserving the Web, and the academic partners who have started to explore and use large scale web archive collections for scholarly research. The workshop will present an overview of the current web archiving landscape and how the UK Web Archive is perceived by researchers. It will also report on the progress and outcome of a number of JISC-funded projects, which focus on the use of web archives for analytics and visualisation. The workshop participants will be invited to join a number of parallel break-out sessions, looking at the legal and usability issues related to the research use of large scale web archives. They will also have the opportunity to engage in in-depth discussions with technologists from the Internet Archive and the British Library and outline the technical requirements for applying the “big data” approach to web archives.

The agenda for the session is shown below

11:00 Welcome and introduction – Neil Grindley (JISC) and Helen Hockx-Yu (British Library)

11:10 Visualising the UK Web Domain - Andy Jackson (British Library)

11:40 Analytical Access to the Domain Dark Archive - Peter Webster (Institute of Historical Research, University of London)

12:10 Big Data: Demonstrating the Value of the UK Web Domain Dataset for Social Science Research - Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Institute)

12:40 UK Web Archive in the eyes of scholars – Helen Hockx-Yu (British Library)

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Parallel break-out discussions

1.    Legal and ethical issues

2.    Usability issues and limitations

3.    Technical requirements for the “big data” approach to using web archives

15:30 Reporting back

16:00 Finish