We are delighted to share the news that the second Marshall McLuhan Centenary Fellowship in Digital Sustainability, 2017-2018, will be awarded to Maria Angela Ferrario, Lecturer in Digital Technology and Environmental Change at the School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, UK. Maria Angela is a digital innovation specialist with a background in computer science, […]
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Computational Archival Science Workshop (Part 2) – Studying User Perspectives and Archives in Use
The previous post on the Computational Archival Science workshop at IEEE Big Data 2016 focused on the papers that discussed appraisal and arrangement & description. Here I’ll discuss three papers, including our own, that focus on the researchers who use the archives. “Mining and Analysing One Billion Requests to Linguistic Services” by Büchler et al. […]
Computational Archival Science Workshop (Part 1) – Appraisal and Arrangement & Description
Christoph and I had the opportunity to attend the Computational Archival Science workshop at IEEE Big Data 2016 in December and present some of our work with Ian on applying Research Object frameworks to Web Archives Research. I’ll be writing a few posts here to give an overview of the presentations and discussion at the […]
Web Archiving: Past, Present and Future
or, Yet another Web Archiving Bibliography We’ve started working with Ian Milligan this Fall as part of the Marshall McLuhan Centenary Fellowship in Digital Sustainability, with research exploring the differences between professionally-curated and crowd-sourced web archives collections. And, as the Internet Archive celebrates 20 years of web archiving this past week (and released some fun and exciting new tools – […]