Rogers digitalmethods archived_website_30_nov10_optimized
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This document outlines five approaches for conceptually studying archived websites as historical objects: (1) delimiting the website's scope, (2) preserving and reconstructing website content over time, (3) analyzing embedded histories within archive collections, (4) researching prior website versions carefully, and (5) using archived websites to study broader historical topics like societal changes or specific institutions. The goal is to understand how archived websites can add new perspectives to existing historiographical approaches and history writing.
Rogers digitalmethods archived_website_30_nov10_optimized
- 1. THE WEBSITE AS OBJECT OF HISTORIOGRAPHICAL STUDY PROF. DR. RICHARD ROGERS UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM
- 2. THE WEBSITE AS ARCHIVED OBJECT How is to be conceptually studied? 1) The taming and capturing of the website. 2) The preserving and reanimating of the website. *3) The embedded historiographies. *4) The research use of the existing historiographies. *5) How else to use the archived websites for history-writing?
- 3. THE WEBSITE AS ARCHIVED OBJECT How is conceptually studied? 1) The taming and capturing of the website. "How can the object of historical study - the website - be delimited, both on the web and as an archived website?" (Brugger, 2009: p. 116)
- 4. THE WEBSITE AS ARCHIVED OBJECT How is to be conceptually studied? 2) The preserving and reanimating of the website. a) "The web is a unique mixture of the ephemeral and the permanent. b) Specialied tools and techniques are required to ensure that content can be viewed again at a later time. c) Content, once presented, needs to be reconstructed or represented in order for others to experience it temporally." (Schneider & Foot, 2004: p. 114)
- 5. THE WEBSITE AS ARCHIVED OBJECT How is to be conceptually studied? 3) The embedded historiographies in Web archives Wayback machine (single-site histories - "biographical" history) LOC & other special collections ("event-based" history) National libraries ("national" history)
- 10. THE WEBSITE AS ARCHIVED OBJECT How is to be conceptually studied? 4) The research use of the existing historiographies. Evidentiary context. "Gathering evidence of prior versions of Web sites should be performed in a careful forensic manner with cognizance of the underlying technology used in the archiving process." (Howell, 2006: 3)
- 14. THE WEBSITE AS ARCHIVED OBJECT How is to be conceptually studied? 5) How else to use the archived websites for history-writing? a) Read history of web from history of a website? (google.com) b) Read impact of web on Institution? (library, newspaper, court) c) Read societal change or stability from agendas and issue lists on governmental and non-governmental websites? (whitehouse.gov) What does the website add to existing histories and history-writing?
- 15. THE WEBSITE AS ARCHIVED OBJECT How is to be conceptually studied? - Summary 1) The taming and capturing of the website. 2) The preserving and reanimating of the website. 3) The embedded historiographies. 4) The research use of the existing historiographies. 5) How else to use the archived websites for history-writing?
- 16. "Methods for Web history" THANK YOU Digital Methods Initiative, http://www.digitalmethods.net Govcom.org Foundation, http://www.govcom.org Richard Rogers, University of Amsterdam, rogers@uva.nl