For International Love Data Week join the UK Web Archive and experts to explore how we can make sense of vast and varied web archives.
Monday 9 February, 18.30 – 20.00 UTC, Brontë Room, Knowledge Centre, British Library, London
The web represents the largest unstructured data collection, with a huge variety of data types, creators and sources, distributed across the world. The archived web introduces a further dimension of temporality, with national web archives also bringing questions of space to the fore.
Hear from panellists about their research using the archived web and join a discussion about the latest methods for examining archived web data, including computational analysis, data visualisation and tools for finding the human stories in the archived web.
This event is in partnership with ‘An Atlas of Economic Activities in the UK’, a Smart Data Research UK project, which uses web archive data from Common Crawl to analyse and map economic activity. Speakers include project lead Emmanouil Tranos and Thom Vaughan from the Common Crawl foundation. They are joined by Andrea Kocsis and Cameron Huggett. Andrea’s exhibition with artist Dorsey Kaufmann (Edinburgh, 5 – 16 November) visualises UK Web Archive data from the National Library of Scotland. Cameron’s research into football fan publications, racism and anti-racism has included close reading of online football fan community forums as preserved in web archives. Our chair is Jane Winters, Director of the Digital Humanities Research Hub at the University of London.
This event is free to attend, but advance booking is required.