Author: Nicholas Taylor

Resources for research using web archives

Since our collaboration with political science researchers using web archives to understand the 2014 U.S. congressional elections, we’ve seen (and, hopefully, helped foster) growing interest in web archives as primary source material. This trend parall…

Questions of ethics at Web Archives 2015

A welcome complement to the lately growing number of web archiving-specific events, the inaugural Web Archives: Capture, Curate, Analyze conference (tweet stream) brought together an eclectic crowd of researchers, instructors, students, archivists, lib…

Browsing the ancient Web with an ancient browser

The world’s first websites were built for very different rendering and navigation interfaces than the comparatively advanced browsers available today. Thanks to the work of web archivists (e.g., CERN, SLAC), we can celebrate the incongruity of accessin…

Recap of web archiving at SAA Annual Meeting

“What does it take to archive a linear foot of the Web?,” Anna Perricci posed rhetorically to our web archiving metrics breakout discussion group two weeks ago. I don’t yet have a good answer for what the question’s getting at, but I was gratified by t…

SUL joins the IIPC Steering Committee

We are pleased to announce the acceptance of our bid to join the IIPC Steering Committee, based on a vote by the IIPC membership. SUL joins the 15-member group as one of two currently-serving university library members (the other being the University o…