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 … Continue reading Forthcoming conferences
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 … Continue reading New article: technology, ethics and religious language
Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities. Agiatis Benardou, Erik Champion, Costis Dallas and Lorna M. Hughes (eds). Routledge, 2017. [This review first appeared in the LSE Review of Books.] The digital turn in humanities research over the last three decades has enabled the asking of new research questions: the availability of fresh tools and techniques, … Continue reading Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities: a review
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 … Continue reading Archiving the Belgian Web
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, … Continue reading Peter Webster at IFLA 2017
[A review that appeared first in the LSE Review of Books.] David Thomas, Simon Fowler and Valerie Johnson. The Silence of the Archive. Facet, 2017. In the past two to three decades, the archival profession has been caught between two currents of cultural and technological change: simultaneous, largely unrelated, both apparently inexorable. Largely confined to … Continue reading The silence of the archive: a review
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