
IIPC RSS Webinar: Scholarship with Web Archive Collection Data
The IIPC Research Speaker Series (RSS) focuses on the research use of web archives and features presentations of use cases, collaborative projects, and new tools for researchers.
This presentation will introduce the Archives Research Compute Hub (ARCH) and the work of scholars using web archive collection data to study current and historical religious social communities. Attendees will learn methods for producing datasets with ARCH with examples from panelists’ ongoing and published research.
Maintained by the Internet Archive, ARCH was made possible in part by funding from the Mellon Foundation and via a long-running collaboration with the Archives Unleashed project of the University of Waterloo and York University. Ongoing ARCH development is made possible with funding from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services.
SPEAKERS:
Emily Lynell Edwards is an Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and Educational Technologist at St. Francis College. Her recent publication, “Digital pioneers: Mormon mommy bloggers and building the ‘Bloggernacle’” applies cultural and quantitative analysis methods to web archive collections.
Anna Grasso is a Post-Doctoral researcher at the University of Wales Trinity St. David for the DigitIslam project, ‘Digital Islam across Europe: Understanding Muslims’ Participation in Online Islamic Environments.’ Her work focuses on UK-based quantitative and qualitative methods, analysing the use and impact of Online Islamic Environments (OIEs), and website data collection and analysis.
Karl Blumenthal is Senior Web Archivist for the Internet Archive, where he manages the Archives Research Compute Hub (ARCH) and supports partners in the Archive-It web archiving services.
This webinar will be chaired by Ian Milligan, Professor of History and Associate Vice-President for Research Oversight and Analysis in the University of Waterloo’s Office of Research. He was the principal investigator of the Archives Unleashed project and currently serves as co-editor of Internet Histories.