UK Web Archive
TheUK Web Archiveis aconsortiumof the six UKlegal depositlibraries which aims to collect all UK websites at least once each year.[1]
UK Web Archive | |
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Established | 2005 |
Reference to legal mandate | Yes, provided in law by: |
Other information | |
Website | Official website |
History
[edit]In 2005, theBritish Library,The National Archives,Wellcome Trust,National Library of Scotland,National Library of WalesandJISCformed the UK Web Archiving Consortium, a project to archive websites.[3]
UKWAC archived selected websites by licence or permission, usingPANDAS softwaredeveloped by theNational Library of Australia.During the project its members collected sites relevant to their interest; the Wellcome Library collectedmedical sites,the national libraries sites that reflect life in contemporary Wales or Scotland. The British Library worked with a broad policy of collecting sites of cultural, historical and political importance to the UK.[4]
The Consortium wound up in 2010. The Archiving and Preservation Working Group took over UKWAC's co-ordinating role web archiving in the UK. TheDigital Preservation Coalitionhosts the working group.[5]
Web Archiving
[edit]The archive undertakes an annual crawl of.ukand other UK geographicTop Level Domainssuch as.scot,.cymruor.london.
The crawl is archived in a shared infrastructure called theDigital Library System.Members of the public can nominate sites for preservation there through theUKWA website.The whole web archive is available to registered readers on library premises; and where permission has been given, or license conditions can be met, copies are also accessible through the website.[6]
The archive gathers sites in response to events,building collections- these have preserved writing and imagery recording naturaldisasters,election campaignssince2005and the UK'sblogospherefor research, among more than a hundred more.[7]
SHINE
[edit]The UK Web Archive holds a collection of all the.ukwebsites that were archived by theInternet Archiveuntil the end of March in 2013.[8]SHINE is aweb interfacewhich can be used to createrepeatablelists of results of historical.uk pages.Trends,or occurrences ofkeywordsin the data set on.uk pages over that time, useconcordanceto show keywords in context.[9]
Mementos
[edit]Memento is a name for prior versions ofweb pagescoined by theMemento Project.The UK Web Archive Memento interface allows Mementos to be found acrossweb archives.[10]The interface can be used to find a Memento by itsdatein asnapshottable, or see how often a site appears across public web archives.
Researching the archive
[edit]Research into the web as a reflection ofsocietyhas helped develop access to the archive.[11]Libraries have developed guides toresearch skillsneeded to use web archives. These include using big data to see patterns or trends,[12]or writingcitationsfor archived copies of websites.[13]
GLAM Workbench
[edit]GLAMWorkbench is a project which looks at how researchers can use data preserved by galleries, libraries, archives and museums.[14]It includes a collection ofJupyter notebookswhich draw on Mementos and index data.[15]The notebooks mix description and editable code to help researchers find evidence in web archives.
Where the whole archive can be accessed, by Library | |||||
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Bodleian Libraries | British Library | Cambridge University Libraries | National Library of Scotland | National Library of Wales | Trinity College Dublin |
See also
[edit]- National Records of Scotland Web Continuity Service[16]
- Public Record Office of Northern Ireland Web Archive[17]
- UK Government Web Archive
- UK Parliament Web Archive[18]
- Web Archiving Initiatives
References
[edit]- ^"UKWA Home".webarchive.org.uk.Retrieved2020-10-13.
- ^"The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations 2013".legislation.gov.uk.RetrievedFebruary 21,2022.
- ^"15 Years of the UK Web Archive - The Early Years - UK Web Archive blog".blogs.bl.uk.Archivedfrom the original on 8 March 2020.Retrieved2020-10-13.
- ^"UK Web Archiving Consortium: Evaluation Report".Digital Preservation Coalition.April 2006. Archived fromthe originalon 9 January 2017.Retrieved17 March2014.
- ^"Web Archiving & Preservation Working Group - Digital Preservation Coalition".dpconline.org.Archivedfrom the original on 31 July 2020.Retrieved2020-10-13.
- ^"What is the UK Web Archive?".UK Web Archive.Archivedfrom the original on 5 December 2019.Retrieved17 March2014.
- ^"15 Years of UKWA - Looking back at our first collections - UK Web Archive blog".blogs.bl.uk.Archivedfrom the original on 29 July 2020.Retrieved2020-10-19.
- ^webarchive.org.uk."JISC UK Web Domain Dataset (1996-2013)".data.webarchive.org.uk.Retrieved2020-10-16.
- ^"Trend results 1996-2013 for" big data ":: SHINE".webarchive.org.uk.Retrieved2020-10-13.
- ^"Mementos - Archived history of webarchive.org.uk".Mementos - Finding historical archives across the world wide web.Retrieved2020-10-09.
- ^Blaney, Jonathan (19 April 2016)."More project case studies available".Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities.Archivedfrom the original on 16 February 2017.Retrieved2020-10-09.
- ^McNally, Anna."LibGuides: Finding and Using Digital Archives during COVID-19: Web archives".libguides.westminster.ac.uk.Retrieved2020-10-14.
- ^Thomas, Susan."Oxford LibGuides: Web Archives: Home".ox.libguides.Retrieved2020-10-14.
- ^"Welcome to the GLAM Workbench - GLAM Workbench".glam-workbench.github.io.Retrieved2020-10-13.
- ^Sherratt, Tim; Jackson, Andrew (2020-06-15)."GLAM-Workbench/web-archives".Zenodo.Bibcode:2020zndo...3894079S.doi:10.5281/zenodo.3894079.
- ^Team, National Records of Scotland Web (2013-05-31)."NRS Web Continuity Service".National Records of Scotland.Archivedfrom the original on 18 January 2020.Retrieved2020-10-13.
- ^"Search the PRONI Web Archive".nidirect.2015-12-09.Archivedfrom the original on 27 Aug 2020.Retrieved2020-10-13.
- ^"MirrorWeb - UK Parliament Web Archive".webarchive.parliament.uk.Retrieved2020-10-13.
External links
[edit]- UK Web Archive home page
- The UKWA blog
- UK Government Web ArchiveArchived UK government websites, run by UK National Archives
- Digital Preservation Coalition - Web Archiving and Preservation Task Force
- Archives in the United Kingdom
- College and university associations and consortia in the United Kingdom
- Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom
- Internet in the United Kingdom
- British digital libraries
- Organizations established in 2005
- Web archiving
- Web archiving initiatives
- 2005 establishments in the United Kingdom