The Historical Web and Digital Humanities
The Historical Web and Digital Humanities fosters discussions between the Digital Humanities and web archive studies by focussing on one of the largest entities of the web, namely national and transnational web domains such as the British, French, or European web.
With a view to investigating whether, and how, web studies and web historiography can inform and contribute to the Digital Humanities, this volume contains a number of case studies and methodological and theoretical discussions that both illustrate the potential of studying the web, in this case national web domains, and provide an insight into the challenges associated with doing so. Commentary on and possible solutions to these challenges are debated within the chapters and each one contributes in its own way to a web history in the making that acknowledges the specificities of the archived web.
The Historical Web and Digital Humanities will be essential reading for those with an interest in how the past of the web can be studied, as well as how Big Data approaches can be applied to the archived web. As a result, this volume will appeal to academics and students working and studying in the fields of Digital Humanities, internet and media studies, history, cultural studies, and communication.
Niels Brgger is a professor at Aarhus University, Denmark, in the School of Communication and Culture. In 2000 he co-founded the Centre for Internet Studies, Aarhus University, and he has headed the Centre since 2010. He has been Head of NetLab, a research infrastructure for the study of the archived web, since 2014. His research interests are web historiography, web archiving, and media theory. Within these fields he has authored and (co-)edited a number of publications, among others The Archived Web: Doing History in the Digital Age (2018), The SAGE Handbook of Web History (Ed. with Ian Milligan, 2018), Web 25: Histories from the First 25 Years of the World Wide Web (2017), and The Web as History: Using Web Archives to Understand the Past and the Present (Ed. with Ralph Schroeder, 2017). He is co-founder (2017) and managing editor of the international journal Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society (Routledge).
Ditte Laursen is Head of the Department for Digital Cultural Heritage, The Royal Danish Library. She earned her PhD in media studies from University of Southern Denmark, 2006, specialising in young peoples mobile phone communication. In 2007, she became curator and researcher at the Danish State Library. In 2009, she combined her curator position with a postdoctoral research position at DREAM (Danish Research Centre of Advanced Media Materials) with a project on the implementation of digital technologies in museums. As a researcher and curator she has been working with the Danish national web archive for several years, some of them as managing curator. Her interests include collection management, digital humanities, and digital research infrastructures. She is author or co-author of numerous publications on digital archives, social interaction in, around, and across digital media, and users engagement with museums and libraries, all published in international peer-reviewed journals and anthologies.
Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities
Series Editors: Marilyn Deegan, Lorna Hughes,
Andrew Prescott, and Harold Short
Digital technologies are increasingly important to arts and humanities research, expanding the horizons of research methods in all aspects of data capture, investigation, analysis, modelling, presentation, and dissemination. This important series covers a wide range of disciplines with each volume focussing on a particular area, identifying the ways in which technology impacts on specific subjects. The aim is to provide an authoritative reflection of the state of the art in technology-enhanced research methods. The series is critical reading for those already engaged in the digital humanities, and of wider interest to all arts and humanities scholars.
Shakespeares Language in Digital Media
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New Directions in Mobile Media and Performance
Camille Baker
The Shape of Data in the Digital Humanities
Modeling Texts and Text-based Resources
Julia Flanders and Fotis Jannidis
International Perspectives on Publishing Platforms
Image, Object, Text
Edited by Meghan Forbes
A History of Place in the Digital Age
Stuart Dunn
The Historical Web and Digital Humanities
The Case of National Web Domains
Edited by Niels Brgger and Ditte Laursen
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The Historical Web and Digital Humanities
The Case of National Web Domains
Edited by Niels Brgger and Ditte Laursen
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Names: Brugger, Niels, 1959 editor. | Laursen, Ditte, editor.
Title: The historical web and digital humanities : the case of national web domains / edited by Niels Brugger and Ditte Laursen.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. | Series: Digital research in the arts and humanities | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018052673 (print) | LCCN 2018060622 (ebook) | ISBN 9781315231662 (ebook) | ISBN 9781351865739 (epub) | ISBN 9781351865722 (mobi/kindle) | ISBN 9781351865746 (web pdf) | ISBN 9781138294318 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Digital humanities. | Web archives. | World Wide WebStudy and teaching. | World Wide WebHistoriography. | Internet domain names. | Transnationalism.
Classification: LCC AZ105 (ebook) | LCC AZ105 .H578 2019 (print) | DDC 001.30285dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018052673
ISBN: 978-1-138-29431-8 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-23166-2 (ebk)
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Contents
Niels Brgger and Ditte Laursen
Part One
Collecting and preserving a national web domain
