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In my research, I draw upon my background in history to apply it to the web. Following this logic, I consider cross-national history as a form of comparative international history, following in the footsteps of Marc Bloch’s comparison (194…
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Terms such as ‘nation’ and ‘community’ are important for many web archives and researchers studying web archives — should we strive to define these terms in a rigorous way, how could this be done, and who are the ‘we’ to take on this task …
View article: What can we learn from URLs?
What can we learn from URLs? Open
In this chapter, the results of a comparative study about COVID-19 web archive collections at the IIPC (International Internet Preservation Consortium) and the national libraries of Luxembourg, Hungary, France, the UK, Denmark, and the Net…
View article: BESOCIAL: A Sustainable Knowledge Graph-Based Workflow for Social Media Archiving
BESOCIAL: A Sustainable Knowledge Graph-Based Workflow for Social Media Archiving Open
Social media as infrastructure for public discourse provide valuable information that needs to be preserved. Several tools for social media harvesting exist, but still only fragmented workflows may be formed with different combinations of …
View article: Unlocking web and social media archives for humanities research : a critical reflection
Unlocking web and social media archives for humanities research : a critical reflection Open
Presentation for the IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference virtually held on June 14-16, 2021. This presentation discusses the results of a survey targeted at researchers (n=145) that was done in the context of the PROMISE pro…
View article: BESOCIAL : towards a sustainable strategy for archiving and preserving social media in Belgium
BESOCIAL : towards a sustainable strategy for archiving and preserving social media in Belgium Open
The amount of digital data we produce every day is mind-boggling. The content produced on social media fuels the flood of data. However, social media content is very ephemeral and is often not archived by universities or heritage instituti…
View article: REQUIREMENTS AND DESIDERATA FOR THE SCHOLARY USE OF WEBARCHIVES
REQUIREMENTS AND DESIDERATA FOR THE SCHOLARY USE OF WEBARCHIVES Open
The web and online information has become of utmost importance. However, the short lifespan of online data (with 40% of content being removed after 1 year) poses serious challenges for preserving and safeguarding digital heritage and infor…
View article: Exploring the 20-year evolution of a research community: web-archives as essential sources for historical research
Exploring the 20-year evolution of a research community: web-archives as essential sources for historical research Open
Het PROMISE-project kon niet worden bedacht zonder de kwestie van toegang tot Belgische webarchieven aan te pakken. Het belangrijk is om de Web te bewaren, omdat het belangrijk is als informatiebron voor onderzoek. Tijdens de conferentie “…
View article: Piloting access to the Belgian web-archive for scientific research: a methodological exploration
Piloting access to the Belgian web-archive for scientific research: a methodological exploration Open
The web is fraught with contradiction. On the one hand, the web has become a central means of information in everyday life and therefore holds the primary sources of our history created by a large variety of people (Milligan, 2016; Winters…
View article: Towards a national web archive in a federated country : a Belgian case study
Towards a national web archive in a federated country : a Belgian case study Open
Presentation for the 2019 International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference. This presentation discusses the process and challenges of archiving the Belgian web.
View article: Web archives as a data resource for digital scholars
Web archives as a data resource for digital scholars Open
The aim of this article is to provide an exploratory analysis of the landscape of web archiving activities in Europe. Our contribution, based on desk research, and complemented with data from interviews with representatives of European her…
View article: From the library catalogue to the Semantic Web - The conversion process from MARC 21 to BIBFRAME 2.0
From the library catalogue to the Semantic Web - The conversion process from MARC 21 to BIBFRAME 2.0 Open
This study focuses on BIBFRAME from the perspective of metadata conversion from MARC 21 to BIBFRAME 2.0. In the first part (chapters 1-4) the following topics are discussed: the MARC format and AACR2, the linked data principles and the sem…