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We Could, but Should We? Ethical Considerations for Providing Access to GeoCities and Other Historical Digital Collections
(ACM, 2020-03)
We live in an era in which the ways that we can make sense of our past are evolving as more artifacts from that past become digital. At the same time, the responsibilities of traditional gatekeepers who have negotiated the ...
From archive to analysis: accessing web archives at scale through a cloud-based interface
(Springer Nature, 2021-01-06)
This paper introduces the Archives Unleashed Cloud, a web-based interface for working with web archives at scale. Current access paradigms, largely driven by the scope and scale of web archives, generally involve using the ...
Building Community at Distance: A Datathon during COVID-19
(Digital Library Perspectives, 2020-08-04)
This paper aims to use the experience of an in-person event that was forced to go virtual in the wake of COVID-19 as an entryway into a discussion on the broader implications around transitioning events online. It gives ...
Lowering the Barrier to Access: The Archives Unleashed Cloud Project
(The web that was: archives, traces, reflections RESAW 2019*, 2019-06-19)
The Archives Unleashed Project, aims to make petabytes of historical internet content accessible to scholars and others interested in researching the recent past. We respond to one of the major issues facing web archiving ...
Content-Based Exploration of Archival Images Using Neural Networks
(ACM/IEEE, 2020-08)
We present DAIRE (Deep Archival Image Retrieval Engine), an image exploration tool based on latent representations derived from neural networks, which allows scholars to "query" using an image of interest to rapidly find ...
Project Sustainability and Research Platforms: The Archives Unleashed Cloud Project
(IIPC Web Archiving Conference 2019, 2019-06-07)
The Archives Unleashed Project, founded in 2017 with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, aims to make petabytes of historical internet content accessible to scholars and others interested in researching the recent ...
See a little Warclight: building an open-source web archive portal with project blacklight
(IIPC Web Archiving Conference 2019, 2019-06-06)
In 2014-15, due to close collaboration between UK-based researchers and the UK Web Archive, the open-source Shine project was launched. It allowed faceted search, trend diagram exploration, and other advanced methods of ...
Enabling Access to Old Wu-Tang Clan Fan Sites: Facilitating Interdisciplinary Web Archive Collaboration
(2016-03-08)
The growth of digital sources since the advent of the World Wide Web in 1991, and the commencement of widespread web archiving in 1996, presents profound new opportunities for social and cultural opportunities. In simple ...
An exploratory look at 3,039,804 #elxn42 tweets
(2016-04-14)
This presentation examines the tools, approaches, collaboration, and findings of the Web Archives for Historical Research Group around the capture and analysis of Twitter for the 2015 Canadian Federal Election.
While ...
The Archives Unleashed Project: Technology, Process, and Community to Improve Scholarly Access to Web Archives
(ACM/IEEE, 2020-08)
The Archives Unleashed project aims to improve scholarly access to web archives through a multi-pronged strategy involving tool creation, process modeling, and community building -- all proceeding concurrently in mutually ...