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.

The call for papers

The Case for the Preservation of R&D Project Websites

“About 1 year ago, Arquivo.pt performed an experiment to preserve the .EU domain.

We are now trying to focus on preserving sites of R&D projects. To this end, our first idea was to use the EU Open Data Portal to identify these project URLs. The problem is that from the 25 608 R&D projects funded by FP7 listed by the EU Open Data Portal, only 7.9% had an associated project URL.

So, the first main challenge is to identify R&D project web sites to be preserved.

And you can help!”

Pionnières dans l’archivage du .eu, les archives du Web portugaises s’intéressent aujourd’hui à la préservation des sites de projets, notamment européens, et de leurs résultats intermédiaires.

voir l’article de Daniel Gomes et l’appel à contribution 

The Internet Archive Turns 20: A Behind The Scenes Look At Archiving The Web

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Cet article de Kalev Leetaru dans Forbes permet de pénétrer notamment la fabrique des archives du Web d’Internet Archive mais aborde également les questions relatives aux robots.txt ou le projet No More 404 soutenu par GDELT Project, Wikipedia and WordPress.

On the trace of a website’s lost past

[A guest post from Federico Nanni, who a PhD student in Science, Technology and Society at the Centre for the History of Universities and Science of the University of Bologna.]

(…) In fact, Italy does not have a national archive for the preservation of its web-sphere and furthermore “Unibo.it” has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.

For this reason, I have focused my research (a forthcoming piece on this will be available in Digital Humanities Quarterly) primarily on understanding how to deal and solve this specific issue in order to reconstruct the University of Bologna’s digital past and to understand if these materials are able to offer us a new perspective on the recent history of this institution. (…)

Un billet passionnant de Frederico Nanni à découvrir sur le blog de Ian Milligan.