WARCnet Papers is a series of papers related to the activities of the WARCnet network. WARCnet Papers publishes keynotes, interviews, round table discussions, presentations, extended minutes, reports, white papers, status reports, and similar. To ensure the relevance of the publications, WARCnet Papers strives to publish with a rapid turnover. The WARCnet Papers series is edited by Niels Brügger, Jane Winters, Valérie Schafer, Kees Teszelszky, Peter Webster and Michael Kurzmeier. In cases where a WARCnet Paper has gone through a process of single blind review, this is mentioned in the individual publication. ISSN 2597-0615.
This WARCnet paper reports from two Short-Term Network Stays (STNS) at web and social medial archiving institutions in France and Denmark. The STNS were made to carry out interviews and fieldwork for PhD research focusing on obstacles and practices related to the development of social media archives.
This WARCnet Paper provides an overview of the WARCnet network's activities in the first eight months of 2023, the fourth and last year of the project period.
This WARCnet Paper reports from five Short-Term Network Stays that were made to collect data for a book chapter. Focus is on the often unacknowledged benefits that are a part of data collecting as onsite interview sessions, including tacit knowledge that it would have been difficult to obtain through online meetings only.
This WARCnet paper explores the differences between the national web archives of France and Denmark and the domains crawls of France and Denmark by comparing the legal deposit laws of the different countries, how the law was put into practice and shaped the library policies, practices and results of BnF and KB Denmark.
This WARCnet Paper provides an overview of the WARCnet network's many activities in 2022, the third year of the project period.
This WARCnet paper is part of a series of interviews with web archivists who have been involved in special collections related to COVID-19. The aim of the series is to provide a general overview of COVID-19 web archives.
This WARCnet paper is an account of a two-day research mission to London with the aim to find inspiration for a new research project that uses web sources to write childhood history.
This WARCnet paper examines the potential of national web archives to address this gap through a case-study approach.
The five contributions in this WARCnet Paper are based on the authors’ presentations in the keynote panel “Looking ahead: after web (archives)?” at the WARCnet Closing Conference in Aarhus, Denmark, 17-18 October 2022.
This Special Report sought to (i) examine the causes for the loss of digital heritage and how this relates to Ireland, (ii) offer an overview of the landscape of web archives based across Ireland, and their availability, and accessibility as resources for Irish based research, and (iii) provide some insight into the awareness of, and engagement with, web archives in Irish third-level academic institutions.
This Special Report offers a novel approach for developing a glossary of terms and concepts for web archive research. In doing so, we offer a selection of glossary entries, which could be used as a starting point for beginners in web archive research or by web archives to communicate their holdings to users and stakeholders.
This WARCnet paper is part of a series of interviews with web archivists who have been involved in special collections related to COVID-19. This interview with Paul Koerbin at the National Library of Australia was conducted in collaboration with the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC).
This WARCnet Paper provides an overview of the WARCnet network's many activities in 2021, including dissemination of results.
This Special report identifies and documents the skills, tools, and knowledge required to achieve a broad range of goals within the web archiving lifecycle and to explore the challenges for participation in web archive research.
This paper explores how to describe and characterise archived web data by contextualising collections within the sociotechnical systems that generate that data.
This WARCnet paper is part of a series of interviews with European web archivists who have been involved in special collections related to COVID19. This is an interview with the Library of Congress.
This WARCnet paper is part of a series of interviews with European web archivists who have been involved in special collections related to COVID19. The interview is made with The National Library of Ireland
This report is the first in a short series of WARCnet papers which aim to provide feedback on an internal datathon conducted by Working Group 2 of the WARCnet project.
This WARCnet paper is part of a series of interviews with European web archivists who have been involved in special collections related to COVID19. The aim of the series is to provide a general overview of COVID-19 web archive collections. This publication explores how the Dutch web archive has collected web activity related to COVID-19.
This WARCnet Paper provides an overview of the WARCnet network's organisation and of the network's different activities in 2020, including dissemination of results.
This WARCnet paper is part of a series of interviews with European web archivists who have been involved in special collections related to COVID19. The interview is made with the French National Library (BnF).
This essay examines how web archives have gained legitimacy as a method for research in academia, and focuses on core areas for future development.
This WARCnet paper is part of a series of interviews with European web archivists who have been involved in special collections related to COVID19. The interview is made with the Icelandic web archive.
This WARCnet paper is part of a series of interviews with European web archivists who have been involved in special collections related to COVID19. The interview is made with the IIPC Collaborative collection.
This WARCnet paper is part of a series of interviews with European web archivists who have been involved in special collections related to COVID19. The interview is made with the Swiss National Library.
This WARCnet paper is part of a series of interviews with European web archivists who have been involved in special collections related to COVID19. The interview is made with the UK Web Archive.
This WARCnet paper is part of a series of interviews with European web archivists who have been involved in special collections related to COVID19. The interview is made with the National Széchényi Library in Hungary.
This WARCnet paper is part of a series of interviews with European web archivists who have been involved in special collections related to COVID19. The interview is made with the national Danish web archive Netarkivet.
A round doc discussion about studying web archives to understand the history of (trans)national web domains and of transnational events on the web.
This WARCnet paper is part of a series of interviews with European web archivists who have been involved in special collections related to COVID19. The interview is made with the BnL.
This WARCnet paper is part of a series of interviews with European web archivists who have been involved in special collections related to COVID19. The interview is made with the INA.
This paper explores how we are developing tools to lower access barriers so that a historian can use web history data without a significant investment of time.
This paper is an introduction to the research network WARCnet, with an onerview of the network, a network analysis of the relations between network participants and an outline of the planned network activities.