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Seminar series with Jane Winters, School of Advanced Studies, UoL

05 February 2019, 5:00 pm–6:00 pm

Jane Winters School of Advanced Study University of London

'Embracing the archive cluster' : Working with the archived web - a new kind of primary source?

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Organiser

Cecile Bremont

Location

Room B06
Drayton House
30 Gordon street
London
WC1H 0AX

This presentation will explore the value of the archived web for research in the humanities and social sciences, focusing on the collections at the British Library and The National Archives of the UK. It will discuss some of the challenges posed by the archived web, and by the archiving process, but also highlight the richness of the material held in web archives and its importance for understanding how we live in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Open to all and refreshments will be served courtesy of  UCL Centre for Critical Heritage Studies.

About the Speaker

Jane Winters

Professor of Digital Humanities at Institute of Historical Studies

Jane Winters is Professor of Digital Humanities and Pro-Dean for Libraries at the School of Advanced Study. She has led or co-directed a range of digital projects, including most recently Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities; Digging into Linked Parliamentary Metadata; Traces through Time: Prosopography in Practice across Big Data; the Thesaurus of British and Irish History as SKOS; and Born Digital Big Data and Approaches for History and the Humanities. Jane is a Fellow and Councillor of the Royal Historical Society.

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