We are delighted to announce the organisation of the EWA 2021 conference as a virtual get together on 1 September 2021, from 5.00pm-8.30pm (Irish time) / 6.00pm-9.30pm (CEST). The evening will be chaired by Dr Juan-José Boté (University of Barcelona), Michael Kurzmeier (Maynooth University) and Sharon Healy (Maynooth University). To register for this conference please use the following link to the website or you can fill out the registration form here.
Engaging with Web Archives (EWA) aims to:
- raise awareness for the use of web archives and the archived web for research and education across a broad range of disciplines and professions in the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Political Science, Media Studies, Information Science, Computer Science and more;
- foster collaborations between web archiving initiatives, researchers, educators, and IT professionals.
Programme
17.00 (IRE) / 18.00 (CEST)
Session: Welcome to #EWA4DH
- Dr Juan-José Boté (University of Barcelona)
- Sharon Healy (Maynooth University)
- Michael Kurzmeier (Maynooth University)
17.10 (IRE) / 18.10 (CEST)
Session: Connecting Communities
Chair: Dr. Joseph Timoney (Maynooth University)
- Prof. Niels Brügger, Prof. Valérie Schafer, Prof. Jane Winters (WARCnet Team) –– WARCnet. Web ARChive studies network researching web domains and events
- S. Healy; Dr O. Holownia; M. Kurzmeier; J. Webber (WARST project team) –– Web Archives – Researcher Skills & Tools Survey (WARST)
17.30 (IRE) / 18.30 (CEST)
Session: Digital “Living” Archives and the News
Chair: Prof. David Malone (Maynooth University)
- Dr Kalev Leetaru (The GDELT Project) –– What type of research questions can be answered with GDELT
18.15 (IRE) / 19.15 (CEST)
Session: Showcase – Post-grads & Early Career researchers
Chair: Jason Webber (British Library) and Sharon Healy (Maynooth University)
- Vicky Truyter (University of Cape Town) –– Research Data Management and Sharing Practices of Researchers in Web Archive Studies
- Dr. Eamonn Bell (Trinity College Dublin) –– Wrangling web archive URLs and inferring site structure with Python
- Derren Wilson (Manchester Metropolitan University) –– Tools and methods for analysing configurations of web design: A case study of the CSS Zen Garden source code
- Michael Kurzmeier (Maynooth University) –– Extracting Information from Cybercrime Archives
19.15 (IRE) / 20.30 (CEST)
KEYNOTE
Chair: Dr Juan-José Boté (Universitat de Barcelona)
- Dr David Giaretta –– On behalf of the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS), Data Archive Interoperability (DAI) Working Group) Report on Development of the OAIS Suite of Digital Preservation Standards [Abstract]
20.15 (IRE) / 21.15 (CEST):
Final Comments