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Analyzing web archives through topic and event focused sub-collections

Analyzing web archives through topic and event focused sub-collections
Analyzing web archives through topic and event focused sub-collections
Web archives capture the history of the Web and are therefore an important source to study how societal developments have been reflected on the Web. However, the large size of Web archives and their temporal nature pose many challenges to researchers interested in working with these collections. In this work, we describe the challenges of working with Web archives and propose the research methodology of extracting and studying sub-collections of the archive focused on specific topics and events. We discuss the opportunities and challenges of this approach and suggest a framework for creating sub-collections.
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Gossen, Gerhard
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Demidova, Elena
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Risse, Thomas
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Gossen, Gerhard
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Demidova, Elena
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Gossen, Gerhard, Demidova, Elena and Risse, Thomas (2016) Analyzing web archives through topic and event focused sub-collections. WebSci '16 ACM Web Science Conference, , Hannover, Germany. 22 - 25 May 2016. pp. 291-295 . (doi:10.1145/2908131.2908175).

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Abstract

Web archives capture the history of the Web and are therefore an important source to study how societal developments have been reflected on the Web. However, the large size of Web archives and their temporal nature pose many challenges to researchers interested in working with these collections. In this work, we describe the challenges of working with Web archives and propose the research methodology of extracting and studying sub-collections of the archive focused on specific topics and events. We discuss the opportunities and challenges of this approach and suggest a framework for creating sub-collections.

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Accepted/In Press date: 23 March 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 2016
Venue - Dates: WebSci '16 ACM Web Science Conference, , Hannover, Germany, 2016-05-22 - 2016-05-25
Organisations: Electronics & Computer Science

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Local EPrints ID: 392902
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/392902
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Date deposited: 21 Apr 2016 11:25
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 23:52

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Author: Gerhard Gossen
Author: Elena Demidova
Author: Thomas Risse

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