[ecrea] cfp: Conference_Web Archives as scholarly Sources: Issues, Practices and Perspectives

'Web Archives as scholarly Sources: Issues, Practices and Perspectives'
A two-day conference, Aarhus University, Denmark, 8-10 June 2015

The submission website is open at http://events.netlab.dk/conference. 
Please note that the deadline for submissions is 8 December. There will 
be no extension of this deadline.

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. In conjunction with the 
overall topic of web archives, general areas of interest include, but 
are not limited to:
• the history(ies) of the web
• the changing structure of the web
• material culture and display in a digital context
• political and literary reputation online
• public engagement online
• patterns of culture online
• networks of social communication
• the evolution of language on the web
• the history of institutions and organisations online
• the history of social and political movements on the web
• the relationship between image, sound and text online
• the web as a forum for commemoration
• health and education online
• using web archives in the classroom
• national/international boundaries online
• approaches to web archiving
• research methods for studying the archived web
• providing access to the archived web
This list is not exhaustive, and we are keen to attract the widest 
possible range of topics.

Important dates:
• 8 December 2014: submissions due
• 19 January: notification of acceptance
• 9 March 2015: registrations for presenters open
• 20 April 2015: papers uploaded
• 20 April 2015: registrations for presenters close
• 27 April 2015: registrations for non-presenters open
• 11 May 2015: programme released
• 25 May 2015: registrations for non-presenters close
• 8-10 June 2015: Conference

Keynotes:
- Meghan Dougherty, Loyola University, Chicago
- Ditte Laursen & Bjarne Andersen, Netarkivet, the national Danish web 
archive

Organised by RESAW, Aarhus University, the State and University Library 
(Denmark), the Royal Library (Denmark), l'Institut 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

Read the full call at 
http://resaw.eu/events/international-conference-aarhus-june-2015/



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SECOND CALL 'Web Archives as scholarly Sources: Issues, Practices and 
Perspectives', 8-10 June 2015. Read full call 
athttp://resaw.eu/events/international-conference-aarhus-june-2015. 
Submission website athttp://events.netlab.dk/conference.

LAST REMINDER: Web25, Special issue of New Media & Society on the Web’s 
first 25 years, abstract deadline 15 Nov, full call 
athttp://imv.au.dk/~nb/Web25_call_nms.pdf


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NIELS BRÜGGER, Associate Professor, PhD
Head of the Centre for Internet Studies and of NetLab
Department of Aesthetics and Communication
Aarhus University
Helsingforsgade 14, building 5347, room 236
8200 Aarhus N
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