[ecrea] conference Web,Archives as Scholarly Sources: Issues, Practices and Perspectives

Registration is now open for non-presenters for the conference Web
Archives as Scholarly Sources: Issues, Practices and Perspectives taking
place 8-10 June 2015 at Aarhus University in
 Denmark. Information at
http://resaw.eu/events/international-conference-aarhus-june-2015/ or below.

The conference is organised by RESAW, Aarhus University, the State and
University Library (Denmark), the Royal Library (Denmark), l¹Institut des
sciences de la communication du CNRS, Université
 de Lille 3, the Institute of Historical Research (University of London),
the University of Amsterdam, the British Library, and Leibniz University
Hannover/ALEXANDRIA.

In March 2014, the web celebrated its twenty-fifth birthday. This vast
information resource is of enormous importance to scholars, both as a
primary source and as a means of networking and communication.
 It is, however, strikingly ephemeral, and much important data has already
been lost. The archiving of this vast range of material, so that it is
accessible to both contemporary and future researchers, increasingly
occupies national memory institutions, and researchers are also beginning
to realise and explore its value. This conference seeks to explore the
potential of web archives for scholarly use, to highlight innovative
research, to investigate the challenges and opportunities of working with
the archived web, to identify opportunities for incorporating web archives
in learning and teaching, and to discuss and inform archival provision.
This multi-disciplinary conference is aimed at scholars, web archiving
institutions, web archivists, curators, IT-developers, companies and
public institutions interested in web archiving and research using web
archives.
The conference programme will be released 4 May 2015.

Submission of papers is closed but registration for non-presenters is now
open and takes place at: https://auws.au.dk/resaw2015nonpresenters.
Participation as well as coffee and lunch are free of charge. Participants
must pay for dinner, travel and accomodation themselves. Please note that
there are a limited number of seats for non-presenters. First-come,
first-served. If there are no more seats available through the webshop,
please contact Niels Brügger ((nb /at/ dac.au.dk))  or Janne Nielsen
((imvjani /at/ dac.au.dk)) who will check whether additional seats can be
arranged. Registration for non-presenters will close 18 May.

On Tuesday 9 June in the afternoon, it will be possible to participate in
the workshop "Elements, Graphs, and Entities: Analyzing Web Archive
Datasets" presented by Vinay Goel and Jefferson Bailey from the Internet
Archive. Participation is free but there are some specific requirements
(see below) and the number of participants is limited to 25. You can sign
up for the workshop when registering. Please note that some parallel
sessions will run concurrently with the workshop. The organisers will make
sure that attendees who sign up for the workshop will not present in any
of the parallel sessions on Tuesday afternoon.

About the workshop:
This workshop will explore new methods of research use of web archives by
giving researchers exposure to, and training in, the tools, methods, and
types of analysis possible in working with datasets extracted from entire
web archive collections. Giving researchers datasets of specific extracted
metadata elements, longitudinal link graph data, extracted named entities,
and other post-processed data can help facilitate new research methods and
new types of visualization, inquiry, and analysis. Requirements:
Participants will need to have a laptop and have access to a Unix/Linux
environment, either via a Mac (or Linux OS) or, for Windows users, via a
related OS, such as Ubuntu, running in VirtualBox (or similar).
Participants should have very basic comfort interacting with the command
line (Terminal). Prior to the workshop, attendees will be given links for
downloading the necessary scripts, code templates, and data. Participants
will need to have the ability to install software on their laptops and
will be provide basic instruction for installing the tools necessary for
visualizing the data we will be working with in the workshop. Attendees
need not have great technical proficiency, but should be comfortable
playing around with data and have an open-minded spirit towards working
with and visualizing datasets. Any questions about the workshop can be
directed to (jefferson /at/ archive.org) and (vinay /at/ archive.org).

If you have any questions regarding the conference, please contact Niels
Brügger ((nb /at/ dac.au.dk)) or Janne Nielsen ((imvjani /at/ dac.au.dk)), Aarhus
University.



---------------
ECREA-Mailing list
---------------
This mailing list is a free service offered by Nico Carpentier and ECREA.
--
To subscribe, post or unsubscribe, please visit
http://commlist.org/
--
To contact the mailing list manager:
Email: (nico.carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)
URL: http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~ncarpent/
--
ECREA - European Communication Research and Education Association
Chauss�de Waterloo 1151, 1180 Uccle, Belgium
Email: (info /at/ ecrea.eu)
URL: http://www.ecrea.eu
---------------