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Conclusion: A Highly transformative age for web archives

  • Nicola Bingham
  • Valérie Schafer
  • Jane Winters
  • Anat Ben-David

This chapter explores the evolving landscape of web archiving. It considers how web archives document challenging times, may help to analyse them, and respond to events, disruptions, social demands, and crises. It examines emergency response practices and research trends. The chapter also addresses current and forthcoming challenges such as adapting to platformization, AI, the closure of APIs, and evolving legal frameworks. It highlights how web archives are dynamic entities intertwined with contemporary socio-technical contexts, continually adapting to navigate the complexities of a highly transformative age.

  • Keywords:
  • web studies,
  • web archiving,
  • collections,
  • crisis,
  • emergency responses,
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Nicola Bingham

British Library, United Kingdom - ORCID: 0000-0002-5510-9869

Valérie Schafer

University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - ORCID: 0000-0002-8204-1265

Jane Winters

University College London, United Kingdom - ORCID: 0000-0001-5502-5887

Anat Ben-David

University of Israel, Israel - ORCID: 0000-0003-4510-5634

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Chapter Information

Chapter Title

Conclusion: A Highly transformative age for web archives

Authors

Nicola Bingham, Valérie Schafer, Jane Winters, Anat Ben-David

Language

English

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-0413-2.29

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2024

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Book Title

Exploring the Archived Web during a Highly Transformative Age

Book Subtitle

Proceedings of the 5th international RESAW conference, Marseille, June 2023

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Sophie Gebeil, Jean-Christophe Peyssard

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362

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2024

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Firenze University Press

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