Media of CooperationOur recap of „The datafied Web“ – RESAW Conference at Siegen University (4-6 June 2025)
📄 https://u-si.de/csXM5
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ResearchBuzz: FirehoseBritish Library: RESAW 2025: Report from UK Web Archive Colleagues. “The RESAW (Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web) 2025 conference took place at the University of Siegen in Germany. It was organized by the Collaborative Research Centre 1187 ‘Media of Cooperation’ at the University of Siegen in cooperation with the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) at the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/24/resaw-2025-report-from-uk-web-archive-colleagues-british-library/
infoDOCKETNEW Journal Article: "Retrieval-Augmented Generation of Event Collections from Web Archives and the Live Web" #AI #RAG #webarchives @internetarchive https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00799-025-00419-7
Retrieval-Augmented Generation of Event Collections from Web Archives and the Live Web - International Journal on Digital Libraries
Creating collections of societally impactful events is a challenging task given the sheer amount of information about such events covering a large variety of aspects and perspectives in web archives and the live web. The automatic creation of such collections from web archives typically does not live up to the high standards of web archivists, who put lots of manual effort into carefully curating collections. Furthermore, the lack of engaging presentation methods sets up a burden for any users aiming to interact effectively with event collections in order to explore an event in its entirety. Therefore, we (i) conduct expert interviews to determine the requirements for building and utilising event collections from the perspectives of web archivists, (ii) introduce EventExplorer – a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) approach to create event collections through efficient retrieval and diversified ranking – and make it available in an interactive web system, (iii) apply EventExplorer on different sources including a web archive and the live web, (iv) discuss which requirements are met by EventExplorer as well as the challenges that remain for future work, with a specific emphasis on the distinctive characteristics of both archived web and the live web environments. We demonstrate the effectiveness of EventExplorer applied on web archives through a user study of our interactive system. Then, we transfer our lessons learned to the live web by creating event collections of 166 elections in Europe. Our evaluation results show the effectiveness of EventExplorer in addressing the requirements identified in our expert interviews. Further, we derive a set of challenges and potential future steps for bringing together the automatic creation of web archive collections and manual curation. Finally, we discuss how to make web archives ready for their use in RAG systems.
Library of Congress: Preserving a History of Digital Mapmaking: Inside the Geospatial Software and File Formats Documentation Web Archive. “In this interview, Tim St. Onge and Meagan Snow explain how web archiving is preserving documentation essential to understanding the evolution of modern cartography. They outline the motivations behind the Geospatial Software and File Formats […]
Report: “A Crucial Internet Archive Backup is Hiding in Downtown Vancouver” https://www.infodocket.com/2025/06/13/report-a-crucial-internet-archive-backup-is-hiding-in-downtown-vancouver/ @internetarchivecanada@mastodon @internetarchive #webarchives #digipres #Canada
🙏How intriguing was #RESAW2025?
We hope you all found it informative and engaging. We would like to thank everyone for sharing their insights and listening to the various talks and discussions regarding The Datafied Web. We hope to see you all again next time!
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💡 We conclude #RESAW2025 with our roundtable “RESAW Conferences — the first 10 years, and what’s next?”
⏳16:45 a.m., Obergraben Pink Room (first floor)
📚Chair and moderator: Niels Brügger
🏁This will be followed by some closing remarks.
And with that, #RESAW2025 will be finished.
🗓️watch RESAW 2025:
📍 University of Siegen | June 4 - 6
🔗 https://datafiedweb.net
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💡On to #RESAW2025 day 2!
🎤We begin with Jonathan Gray’s KEYNOTE “Public data cultures”, which explores how data is made public on the Internet amidst the rise of social media, platforms and AI.
⏳09:00 a.m., Unteres Schloss Hörsaal, US-C 114
📚Chair: Tatjana Seitz
#🗓️watch RESAW 2025:
📍 University of Siegen | June 4 - 6
🔗 https://datafiedweb.net
#RESAW2025 #DatafiedWeb #WebHistory #WebArchiving #WebArchives #DigitalHeritage #Datafication
💡The first #RESAW25 day concludes with Nanna Bonde Thylstrup’s Keynote “Vanishing points: technographies of data loss”.
⏳18:00 a.m., Unteres Schloss Hörsaal, US-C 114
🍽️ Following that, there’s a dinner reception in the Unteres Schloss Foyer (US-C 150) at 19:30 you are welcome to attend!
🗓️watch RESAW 2025:
📍 University of Siegen | June 4 - 6
🔗 https://datafiedweb.net
#RESAW2025 #DatafiedWeb #WebHistory #WebArchiving #WebArchives #DigitalHeritage #Datafication
💡#RESAW2025 continues with events such as the panel on “Data Loss in Archival Regimes: The Politics of Data Twinning, Preservation and Conversion” with Katie MacKinnon, Randi Heinrichs and Louis Ravn.
⏳14:00 a.m., Obergraben Pink Room (first floor)
📚Chair: Nanna Bonde Thylstrup (University of Copenhagen)
🗓️watch RESAW 2025:
📍 University of Siegen | June 4 - 6
🔗 https://datafiedweb.net
#RESAW2025 #DatafiedWeb #WebHistory #WebArchiving #WebArchives #DigitalHeritage #Datafication
