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Workshop 449: Contextualising web archives: a participatory and reflective approach to explore web archives as research sites
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Contextualising web archives: a participatory and reflective approach to explore web archives as research sites 1Information School University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; 2Institute for Web Science and Technologies (WeST) Universität Koblenz-Landau); 3Bodleian Libraries It is a participatory and reflective workshop designed based on both theoretical and practical work on web archiving. This workshop is applying already established participatory practices to the emerging field of web archives. It not only aims to support information professionals and researchers to develop critical skills of contextualising web archives for research purposes, but also serves as a participation opportunity involving community partners in web archive development, which feeds back to the web archive community. Organisers and participants will collaboratively co-curate a web archive collection, discuss and debate various philosophical, ethical and technical issues during key stages of collection development as a case study. The workshop will be concluded with a brainstorming session to explore the potential research questions that the collection can support to answer, and propose concepts of novel research methods and tools that can advance the use of web archives. | ||