- Exploring the Archived Web during a Highly Transformative Age
- Edited by Sophie Gebeil, Jean-Christophe Peyssard
We’re all experts now? Archiving public health discourse in the UK Web Archive
- Alice Austin
- Leontien Talboom
- © 2024 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0413-2.25
Emerging from COVID-19 collecting initiatives that underscored the fragility of online health discourse, the Archive of Tomorrow was an ambitious collaborative project that set out to curate a representative and diverse collection of public health websites in the UK. The project encountered a number of challenges, such as technical barriers in capturing interactive and dynamic sites, ethical considerations concerning how disputed or outdated information might be responsibly made available to researchers, and philosophical questions about how ‘health information' is to be defined. This chapter reports on the outcomes of the project and discusses future directions for improving the production and use of large-scale archived web collections.
- Keywords:
- collection development,
- metadata,
- legal deposit,
- health information,
- misinformation,
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Chapter Information
Chapter Title
We’re all experts now? Archiving public health discourse in the UK Web Archive
Authors
Alice Austin, Leontien Talboom
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0413-2.25
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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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
Editors
Sophie Gebeil, Jean-Christophe Peyssard
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
362
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press
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10.36253/979-12-215-0413-2
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