May 27, 2014
One of the main aims of the project is to involve arts and humanities researchers in the development of tools for analysing web archives, thereby ensuring that those tools meet real rather than perceived researcher needs. We recently ran an open competition inviting...
Mar 25, 2014
12 March 2014 marked the 25th birthday of the web. As you would expect, there was a great deal of coverage online, both in relatively formal reporting contexts (e.g. newspaper interviews with Sir Tim Berners-Lee) and in social media. The approach taken by Nominet (one...
Feb 17, 2014
We were delighted to hear on 15 January that the IHR, along with the universities of Amsterdam and Toronto, King’s College London and the History of Parliament Trust, has been awarded funding by the international Digging into Data Challenge 2013. ‘Digging into Linked...
Feb 13, 2014
We are delighted to have been awarded AHRC funding for a new research project, ‘Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities’. BUDDAH aims to transform the way in which researchers in the arts and humanities engage with the archived web, focusing on data...
Feb 7, 2014
On 21 January 2014, Suzy Espley, Tom Storrar and Simon Demissie from The National Archives gave a fascinating presentation about the UK Government Web Archive at the IHR’s ‘Archives and Society’ seminar. The UKGWA is very different from the dataset...