Working with the archived web, 1996-2013

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'Working with the archived web, 1996-2013' presentation by Professor Jane Winters. Fourth annual BL Labs Symposium, 7 Nov 2016

Working with the archived
web, 1996-2013
Jane Winters, Professor of Digital Humanities,
School of Advanced Study, University of London
Fourth Annual BL Labs Symposium, 7 Nov 2016

Some facts and figures
• Historical dataset 1996 to 6 April 2013
– 3,520,628,647 distinct records
– 65 terabytes
• 2014 domain crawl (.uk)
– 56TB data
– 2.5 billion webpages and other assets (including
4.7GB of viruses)

Research questions?
• BBC Online and the aftermath of Jimmy Savile
• The UK Web Archive and Beat literature
• Revealing British Eurosceptism in the UK Web
• Digital barriers and the accessible web
• Do online networks exist for the poetry community?
• London-French habitus as displayed in blogs
• Capture, commemoration and the citizen historian
• A history of UK companies on the web
• The online development of the Ministry of Defence (MoD)

Slide: Andrew Jackson,
‘Ten years of the UK Web
Archive: what have we
saved?’, IIPC General
Assembly, Stanford, April
2015

Future research
• Comparison of the multiple archives of the UK
web
• Transnational study of the ways in which
migration has been discussed online over the
past 25 years
• Translingual communities in the UK Web
Archive

Acknowledgements
• BUDDAH project team – Jonathan Blaney, Niels
Brügger, Josh Cowls, Helen Hockx-Yu, Andrew
Jackson, Eric Meyer, Ralph Schroeder, Jason Webber,
Peter Webster
• Bursary holders – Rowan Aust, Rona Cran, Richard
Deswarte, Saskia Huc-Hepher, Alison Kay, Gareth
Millward, Marta Musso, Harry Raffal, Lorna
Richardson, Helen Taylor

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