Originally published on the UK Web Archive blog on the 20th November 2015.
Over the last few years, it’s been wonderful to see more and more researchers taking an interest in web archives. Perhaps we’re even teetering into the mainstream when a publication like Forbes carries an article digging into the gory details of how we should document our crawls in How Much Of The Internet Does The Wayback Machine Really Archive?
Posted: 2015-11-20
A few months ago, a colleague suggested that we should come up with ways of helping people learn about the main stages of web archiving, and to help them understand some of the more common technical terminology.
I got a bit carried away…
Posted: 2015-08-19
On the first day of the IIPC GA 2015, the morning keynote was Digital Vellum: Interacting with Digital Objects Over Centuries, presented by Vint Cerf and Mahadev Satyanarayanan. This included some more details and demonstrations of the proposed preservation solution I blogged about before, so I thought it was worth returning to the subject now that I know a little more about it.
Posted: 2015-05-08
As a computational physicist working in a library, my background and training is quite different to the curators and researchers I now work with. Therefore, I do try to spend some time following developments in the digital humanities more generally, trying to understand the kinds of questions being asked, the techniques that are being used, and the assumptions that lie beneath.
A particularly interesting example came up recently in a blog entry called “Revealing Sentiment and Plot Arcs with the Syuzhet Package” by Matthew L. Jockers.
Posted: 2015-04-28
As published on the UK Web Archive blog.
I gave the following presentation at the 2015 IIPC GA. If you prefer, you can read the rough script with slides (below the fold) rather than watch the video.
Posted: 2015-04-27
Following Vint Cerf’s talk at AAAS, the “Digital Dark Age” is in the news again (see DSHR’s blog for a good summary, or one of the ~200 other news articles about it!). The coverage spun me into a Twitter rant (documented here), but after reflecting on my reaction, I feel it’s worth exploring the issues in a bit more detail…
Posted: 2015-03-09Digital Preservation Lessons Learned 7
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