UK Web Archive
History
The UK Web Archive [1] (previously the UK Web Archiving Consortium) has been archiving the UK web since 2005. [2] The British Library, The National Archives, Wellcome Trust, National Library of Scotland, National Library of Wales and JISC – formed a consortium (UKWAC) to implement a project to archive websites. After the consortium wound up, its archive continued to be preserved by the UK Web Archive. This organisation currently consists of the Legal Deposit Libraries of the United Kingdom. The archive undertakes an annual crawl of .uk and other UK geographic Top Level Domains such as .scot, .cymru or .london under the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2013.
Web Archiving
As well as an annual domain crawl, the UK Web Archive builds collections, often collaboratively between member institutions, and is a host for others by external partners, for example the Tennis collection, curated by the Kenneth Ritchie Wimbledon Library, a part of Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum.[3] Members of the UK Web Archive also participate in the IIPC; the British Library hosts its ‘Online Hours: Supporting Open Source’, a point of contact for open source web archiving initiatives. [4]
The archive makes collections in the following broad areas:
- History
- Politics & Government
- Arts and Culture
- Society and Communities
- Science, Technology & Medicine
- Sport & Recreation
SHINE
UK Web Archive holds a collection of all the .uk websites that were archived by the Internet Archive until the end of March in 2013. SHINE is a web interface which can be used to create repeatable lists of results, in order to support research into the .uk web domain.
The service includes a 'trends' feature that plots occurrences of keywords in the data set on .uk pages over that time, using concordance to show them in context.[5]
Mementos
Memento is a name for prior versions of web pages coined by the Memento Project. The UK Web Archive Memento interface allows Mementos to be found across web archives. [6] The interface can be used to find a page near a certain date in a snapshot table, or see how often a site appears in public web archives.
Research and the archive
Research into the web as a reflection of society has helped develop access to the archive.[7] In the Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities project, researchers worked with developers to improve the SHINE interface, while undertaking ten projects which studied the history of UK web space from 1996 to 2013. [8]
GLAM Workbench
GLAM Workbench is a project which looks at how researchers can use data preserved by GLAM institutions: galleries, libraries, archives and museums. [9] The British Library, the National Library of Australia, and the National Library of New Zealand project made a collection of Jupyter notebooks which draw on Memento and index data published by the UK web archive, Australian Web Archive and the Internet Archive. [10] The notebooks mix description and editable code, the idea being to help historians, and other researchers, frame questions about material in these collections.
References
- ↑ "UKWA Home". www.webarchive.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
- ↑ "15 Years of the UK Web Archive - The Early Years - UK Web Archive blog". blogs.bl.uk. Archived from the original on 8 March 2020. Retrieved 2020-10-12. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Tennis | UKWA Topics and Themes". www.webarchive.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2 September 2019. Retrieved 2020-10-09. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Jackson, Andrew. "Online Hours: Supporting Open Source - UK Web Archive blog". blogs.bl.uk. Archived from the original on 30 April 2019. Retrieved 2020-10-12. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Trend results 1996-2013 for "big data" :: SHINE". www.webarchive.org.uk. Archived from the original on 4 December 2015. Retrieved 2020-10-09. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Mementos - Archived history of https://www.webarchive.org.uk/". Mementos - Finding historical archives across the world wide web. Retrieved 2020-10-09. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help); External link in|title=(help) - ↑ Blaney, Jonathan. "More project case studies available". Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities. Archived from the original on 16 February 2017. Retrieved 2020-10-09. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Cowls, Josh (2017). "The Web as History : Cultures of the UK web". UCL Digital Press. UCL Press. Retrieved 2020-10-09. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Welcome to the GLAM Workbench - GLAM Workbench". glam-workbench.github.io. Retrieved 2020-10-13.
- ↑ Sherratt, Tim; Jackson, Andrew (2020-06-15). "GLAM-Workbench/web-archives". doi:10.5281/zenodo.3894079.
External links
Category:Bodleian Library Category:British Library Category:Cambridge University Libraries Category:National Library of Scotland Category:National Library of Wales Category:Trinity College Dublin Category:Web archiving Category:Web archiving initiatives Category:Deposit libraries
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