We were delighted to be able to assist a small Christian educational charity take its first steps in online publication. The Society of the Faith has a century-long history in print publishing, but for the papers of a recent symposium, the Society wanted to look at other options. WR&C was able to help the Society … Continue reading WR&C helps a first venture in online publishing
The British Academy have just published a new report, entitled Open Access and Book Chapters. We were delighted to be commissioned to both help define the scope of this study, and to contribute to the research and the writing. The report is available on the British Academy site. From the British Academy site: “Open Access … Continue reading WR&C contributes to new British Academy report
Peter has contributed a chapter to an important new book, The Historical Web and Digital Humanities: the case of national Web domains, published by Routledge and edited by Niels Brügger & Ditte Laursen. His chapter is entitled ‘Lessons from cross-border religion in the Northern Irish web sphere: understanding the limitations of the ccTLD as a … Continue reading New article on the ‘national Web’
We were particularly delighted to work with former colleagues in the International Internet Preservation Consortium, to design, deliver and analyse a survey questionnaire of its membership. The survey gathered information on all aspects of Web archiving in national, regional and university libraries across the world. It covered selection policies, the profile and management of existing … Continue reading Helping the IIPC understand its members
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 … Continue reading SAGE Handbook of Web history
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
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