Historians rely uncritically on date-ordered or algorithmically-ranked keyword search results, putting them at mercy of search algorithms they do not understand.
The historians who came to the meeting were intelligent, kind, and encouraging. But they didn't seem to have a good sense of how to wield quantitative data to answer questions, didn't have relevant computational skills, and didn't seem to have the time to dedicate to a big multiauthor collaboration. It’s not their fault: these things don't appear to be taught or encouraged in history departments right now.
-Erez Leiberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel
We want web archives to be used on page 153 of a random book!
Canadian Political Parties & Political Interest Group Collection (ARCHIVE-IT/Toronto)
Or, the software project formerly known as Warcbase
Lowering the barriers to entry so that humanists, librarians, and archivists can interact with large-scale web archive data, in a transparent way.
Extract all text
Extract all text
Extract entities
Extract entities
Extract entities
Extract link graphs
AUK - Archives Unleashed Cloud
What if we had periodic gatherings where colleagues could get background information, learn how to use these tools, and work on a small project with other colleagues?