Tuesday 5 May: Negotiating the archives of UK web space, Jane Winters, University of London

1. Negotiating the archives of UK web space
Jane Winters, Professor of Digital Humanities, School of Advanced
Study, University of London
WARCnet kickoff meeting, 4-6 May 2020

2. Jisc Domain
Dataset (1996-
2013)
Legal Deposit
Domain Crawl
(2013-2020)
Open UKWA
(2004-2020)
UK parliament web
archive (2009-2020)
UK Government Web
Archive (1996-2020)
Internet Archive (1996-
2020)
Common Crawl (1999-
2020)
Archive-It
Other
national
web
archives

5. Finding a pathway
• Two main institutions which archive the web: the British Library (BL) and The
National Archives of the UK (TNA)
• Two different legislative frameworks: The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print
Works) Regulations 2013 and the Public Records Act (various versions from
1838)
• Two ‘national’ web archives: the UK Web Archive (BL) and the UK
Government Web Archive (TNA)
• Two primary modes of access: on-site only in the UK’s six legal deposit
libraries (BL etc.) and free to anyone online (TNA)