Avishek Anand
Jefferson Bailey
ABSTRACT
The Web has pervaded all walks of life and has become an important corpus for studying the humanities, social sciences, and for use by computer scientists and other disciplines. Web archives collect, preserve, and provide ongoing access to ephemeral Web pages and hence encode traces of human thought, activity, and history. This makes them a valuable resource for analysis and study. However, there have been only few concerted efforts to bring together tools, platforms, storage, processing frameworks, and existing collections for mining and analysing Web archives.
Index Terms
- Exploring the past of the web: alexandria & archive-it hackathon
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