WIRE Workshop: Working with Internet Archives for Research
June 17, 2014 - 1:00pm to 5:00pm
WIRE Workshop: Working with Internet Archives for Research
Venue:
Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences (IQSS), Harvard University
Location:
Cambridge, MA
Please join us on Tuesday for a series of public presentations highlight ongoing research at the intersection of network analysis, large-scale data and archival Internet studies. This workshop is hosted by a team of scholars from Rutgers University, Northeastern University, and the Internet Archive. The aim of the workshop is twofold. The workshop will provide a forum for presentations and discussions of ongoing research involving community development and historical Internet data. Presentation sessions will focus on a variety of themes, derived from ongoing research about online community emergence and evolution. A closing session will be devoted to discussing future research needs and unanswered research questions with regard to data and access to historical Internet records. The workshop will provide a mechanism for discussing the functions that should be incorporated into a prototype historical Web extractor, and for outlining potential research questions to be addressed with a prototype tool and databases. In addition, key questions gathered during the workshop will serve as initial discussion points for the online community that will support ongoing interaction between researchers.