Our recap of „The datafied Web“ – RESAW Conference at Siegen University (4-6 June 2025)
📄 https://u-si.de/csXM5
#RESAW2025 #DatafiedWeb #WebHistory #WebArchiving #WebArchives #DigitalHeritage #Datafication
Our recap of „The datafied Web“ – RESAW Conference at Siegen University (4-6 June 2025)
📄 https://u-si.de/csXM5
#RESAW2025 #DatafiedWeb #WebHistory #WebArchiving #WebArchives #DigitalHeritage #Datafication
Check out the #RESAW2025 trip report: https://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/06/2025-06-17-6th-research-infrastructures.html
The presentation aims to offer both a reflective history of practices and to highlight the challenges faced by a Mediterranean sound archives and research center at Aix-Marseille University, as the world of the web and its uses unfolds. The first email written from the UMR TELEMMe, my laboratory created in 1994 at the Université de Provence, was sent from the Sound Archives Department in 1995, yet it was never archived. The first online sound archives database, was created using MySQL in 1997, it left no trace. The first relational database software that facilitated the online publication and documentation of the sound archives dates back to the early 2000s, but it was only in 2005 that we thought to archive parts of this documentation on the Wayback Machine. In 2020, the database software the Sound archives center had been using was acquired and a retroconversion of all metadata was required. We did it in EAD format and made an export in DC format from the OAIPMH repository ; we hope the metadata of the new platform will soon be archived at CINES – it is the platform of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research. The editorial projects of the "Pôle image-sons, pratiques du numérique" in which I have been involved since 1998, could now be described using terms like "new media" or "alternative narratives." These projects were online and operated with Adobe Flash. Fortunately, this time, we archived them using Conifer and the Wayback Machine before Flash's discontinuation in 2019. In recent months, we contacted INA for legal web deposit, and we are awaiting confirmation on whether the database will be included. The blog for the "Pôle images-sons pratiques du numérique" project, which captured content from the older site (the form is available on the Wayback Machine), is saved on the CINES servers by the platform Hypotheses itself. The web archiving process for projects from an archival center requires careful foresight. However, the first challenge is simply remembering to think about it. Using a data base daily fosters a form of negligence: tomorrow, I will still have access to the site, and the day after that as well. Yet, there comes a day when everything stops. As I write this summary, the Wayback Machine has been forced to suspend operations due to a cyberattack—a sobering reminder of the fragility of our web archiving efforts and the limited tools available to us.This presentation also aims to highlight the issue of web archive hosting, considering the various archiving spaces while recognizing the risks inherent in large, centralized spaces that host data and which are often seen as high-value targets for hackers.
🙏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!
#RESAW2025 #DatafiedWeb #WebHistory #WebArchiving #WebArchives #DigitalHeritage #Datafication
💡 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
#RESAW2025 #DatafiedWeb #WebHistory #WebArchiving #WebArchives #DigitalHeritage #Datafication
💡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