This new book, which promises to become an essential starting point for scholars of the Web, is now published. It contains 40 chapters: some historiographical, theoretical and methodological, and others on concrete case studies. Our own Peter Webster contributed two chapters. The first, ‘Existing Web archives‘, provides an essential orientation to the web archives around… Read More
Forthcoming conferences
Peter will be making three separate appearances in the next few weeks, in the UK, Germany and online. He will be in Frankfurt at the German National Library in November to speak about web archives for research at a conference on the preservation of digital cultural heritage. On 17th October he will be moderating a… Read More
New article: technology, ethics and religious language
Peter’s latest research article has recently been published in the the journal Internet Histories. It has the title ‘Technology, ethics and religious language: early Anglophone Christian reactions to “cyberspace”’. The very recent past has seen an upswing of scholarly interest not so much in the Internet and Web themselves but in the terms in which… Read More
Archiving the Belgian Web
We are very pleased to be serving on the advisory committee of the PROMISE project. Led by the Bibliothèque royale de Belgique in Brusssels, it aims to develop a federal strategy for the preservation of the Belgian web. The Preserving Online Multiple Information: towards a Belgian strategy (PROMISE) project will: Identify best practices in the… Read More
Peter Webster at IFLA 2017
Peter Webster was delighted to be invited to introduce and chair a session at this year’s World Library and Information Congress in Wroclaw (Poland). The session was jointly convened by the National Libraries and IT sections of IFLA, on the subject of access to Web archives. Peter introduced the speakers, from Canada, France and UK,… Read More
Understanding the users of the Parliamentary Web Archive
In June, Peter gave a presentation with Chris Fryer of the Parliamentary Archives on this recent project. WR&C designed and carried out an evaluation of the Parliamentary Web Archive, giving the Parliamentary Archives a new understanding of the ways in which their service is used, and what the next steps are for development. The slides… Read More
On digital contemporary history
Peter Webster is the author of a new article in a special issue of the leading Danish historical journal, Temp: Tidsskrift for historie on the subject of the Information Society. The article is entitled ‘Digital contemporary history: sources, tools, methods, issues’ This essay suggests that there has been a relative lack of digitally enabled historical… Read More
