Call for Papers: Workshop on National Webs

December 8-9, 2016

Aarhus University and the State Library, Denmark

How can you study national webs? How are national webs today different from how they were 10 years ago? Is it possible to compare national webs? And what are the IT-related challenges when doing these kinds of studies?

These are some of the questions that will be addressed at a workshop on national webs, organised by the research project ‘The historical development of the Danish web’ (supported by the Danish Ministry of Culture), in collaboration with NetLab, Aarhus University, and the State Library, Denmark

We never experience the entire national web domain when browsing the web but it is always there as a horizon, as the national context of our browsing. Studies of national webs can provide valuable knowledge about the characteristics and use of different nations’ web. Studies of the history of national webs can shed light on the development and the changing patterns and trends within and across national webs. In addition, studying the characteristics of a national web will result in a baseline for other web studies, for instance by making it possible to determine whether a specific website at a given point in time is comparatively large or small, dynamic or static etc. This will be of use when analysing in-depth the web activities that take place within a nation and to which the national web constitutes the backdrop. It will also allow for international comparisons, both current and historical.

Studies of national web domains is an emerging field within web studies, and the workshop aims to bring together scholars, web archivists, curators and IT-developers working within this area in different countries with a view to advancing the field through knowledge exchange and new possibilities for cooperation.

Submissions could include:

  • theoretical, methodological or case based studies at the intersection between national web studies and Digital Humanities
  • case studies of one or more national webs
  • contemporary cases or a historical perspective
  • theoretical reflections on studying national webs
  • methodological reflections on studying national webs, including discussions about software used for the study.

A selection of the papers from the research workshop will be considered for inclusion in a planned edited volume The Historical Web and Digital Humanities: National Web domains, to be part of a book series about digital research in the Arts and Humanities at an international publisher.

Please send an abstract of up to 300 words to Niels Brügger (nb@cc.au.dk), head of NetLab, Aarhus University. Abstract submission deadline: 14 August, 2016. Notification of acceptance: 1 September, 2016.

« Disrespect des fonds »

« Disrespect des Fonds: Rethinking Arrangement and Description in Born-Digital Archives » by Jefferson Bailey in Archive Journal, summer 2013 (issue 3)

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(…) How will traditional principles of archival arrangement and description be challenged or modified to account for born-digital materials? Arrangement and description have long been the primary method of facilitating the use of archives, and their methodologies have been dependent upon the principle of respect des fonds. The articulation of this theory in 1841 has been held as the “starting point” or beginning of the modern era of archival theory, a “watershed” event establishing the “basic principle” and “very core” of the archival endeavor. Superlatives abound. Respect des fonds, “more than any other principle, has come to provide the archival profession with a unique identity.”1

But respect des fonds was born of a particular historic moment, for a particular type of archival document, and was conceived to address the practical needs of specific social circumstances. (…)

En ce moment à Reykjavik …

Capture d’écran 2016-04-14 à 11.35.083 jours de conférences dédiées aux archives du Web, à la suite de l’assemblée générale de l’IIPC et déjà à mi-parcours un choix de tweets qui reflètent la diversité et la richesse des débats.

 

 

 

 


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Oldweb.today

On aime leur approche, qui restitue les archives du Web en contexte, en pensant les interfaces et environnements via l’émulation.

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Leur démarche a été présentée à la conférence sur les archives du Web qui suivait l’assemblée générale de l’IIPC (découvrir leur présentation):

CfP International Journal on Digital Libraries : Special Issue on Web Archiving

Capture d’écran 2016-03-09 à 18.55.05Web archiving will soon celebrate its 20th birthday. The community as a whole has collected large amounts of web content, providing a fertile ground for researchers to explore. Both the scope and techniques of web archiving are also fast expanding. Collaborative crawling, focused crawling, proactive crawling, and going beyond crawling are only a few approaches that the community is exploring.

While growing and aggregating existing web archives, this international community is also improving archive usability, and incubating new user groups and new ideas. Thus, the community working on web archives includes social scientists, archivists, librarians, big data / information scientists, (web) technologists, and many others.

Extended deadline : April 1st.

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