Date:  Tuesday June 23rd, 3pm

Venue:  Moore Institute Seminar Room, G010, Hardiman Research Building ( map )

Title:   ‘A new class of scholarly resource? Prospects and pitfalls in using web archives for research’

Abstract:  Viewed globally, the process of archiving the web and providing access to that archive is some way ahead of scholars’ and archivists’ understanding of the uses scholars will make of this new class of resource. This lecture will make the case that scholars of contemporary life have a stake in the successful archiving of the web, and in helping determine its shape. After then examining the current state of web archiving in the UK and Ireland, it will present the results of recent and ongoing research into religious discourse in the British and Irish web domains, presenting both substantive conclusions and proposing methods and approaches that are more widely applicable to other scholarly issues.

[Update: the slides are now available on Slideshare ]