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Preserving History as it Happens: The Internet Archive and the Crimean Crisis
(x-posted with ActiveHistory.ca) By Ian Milligan “Thirty goons break into your office and confiscate your computers, your hard drives, your files.. and with them, a big chunk of your institutional...
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Web Archives for Historians: The Crowdsourced Bibliography and Database
In early March, Peter Webster of the British Library and I launched “Web Archives for Historians,” a crowdsourced bibliography comprised of works written by historians who use or think about how we can...
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Extracting and Visualizing Postal codes in the .ca TLD
The results! To find out what these are and how they were generated, read on. After a great few days at the Working with Internet Archives for Research (WIRE) workshop at Harvard University in...
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DH 2014 Abstract: “Clustering Search to Navigate a Case Study of the Canadian...
This year, abstracts were prepared using DHWriter. The results were promising. Readers of this blog will not find too many surprises in my abstract for the Digital Humanities 2014 annual conference...
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Testing Cohesiveness in GeoCities Neighbourhoods by Extracting and Plotting...
The ‘heartland’ of GeoCities? This weekend, I went back to my old GeoCities archive to play around with the methods I experimented with in my last post on the Wide Web Scrape. One question that I’ve...
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ACA 2014 Presentation: “The Great WARC Adventure: WARCs from Creation to Use”
Click through for our slide deck. I’ve been having a great time here in Victoria, BC at the Association of Canadian Archivists’ annual meeting. As a historian, it’s been great learning from archivists:...
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Three Tools for the Web-Savvy Historian: Memento, Zotero, and WebCite
Over 200,000 citations or references to these websites exist in Google Books, and this is basically what you’ll get when you follow them. There’s no excuse for this anymore. By Ian Milligan “Sorry, the...
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Extracting Links from GeoCities and Throwing Them at the Wall
I have been exploring link structures as part of my play with web archives. My sense is that they’re a useful addition to the other tools that we use to analyze WARC files and other collections. The...
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Colour Analysis of Web Archives
These popular colours from the children-focused area of GeoCities would look great on a paint swath, right?I have been tinkering with images in web archives – an idea that I had was to pull out the...
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Using ImagePlot to Explore Web Archived Images
A low-resolution version of the EnchantedForest visualization. Read on for higher-resolution downloads. ImagePlot, developed by Lev Manovich’s Software Studies Initiative, promises to help you “explore...
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Herrenhausen Big Data Lightning Talk: Finding Community in the Ruins of...
I was fortunate to receive a travel grant to present my research in a short, three-minute slot plus poster at the Herrenhäuser Konferenz: Big Data in a Transdisciplinary Perspective in Hanover,...
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Herrenhausen Big Data Podcast: Coding History on GeoCities
Last post (three day conference deserves three posts, right?) for my trip to Hannover, Germany for the “Big Data in a Transdisciplinary Perspective” conference. I had the opportunity to sit down with...
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IIPC 2015: Slides for “WARCs, WATs, and wgets” Presentation
I gave this talk at the International Internet Preservation Consortium‘s 2015 Annual Meeting on Tuesday, April 28th (Stanford University, Palo Alto CA). Hopefully you find it interesting, even if it is...
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