This talk provides an insight into web archives by examining the ”unknown” aspects beyond the archived web pages, or the ”text”. It argues that web archives have a rich set of semantics which when explored offers a new way of understanding their characteristics. It showcases examples of British Library’s work beyond the “document-centric” approach of providing access.

AIM To conduct a meta-ethnographic study of the experiences, meanings and ways of 'dealing with' symptoms or a diagnosis of postnatal depression amongst migrant women living in high income countries. BACKGROUND Prevalence of postnatal depression is highest amongst women who are migrants. Yet many women do not seek help for their symptoms and health services do not always respond appropriately...

Using an interdisciplinary research methodology across three archaeological and historical case studies, this article explores “family archives.” Four themes illustrate how objects held in family archives, curation practices, and intergenerational narratives reinforce a family’s sense of itself: people–object interactions, gender, socialization and identity formation, and the “life course.” The...

The paper summarizes the results of an on-line survey which was executed 2010 in german archives of all branches. The survey focused on metadata and used metadata standards for the annotation of audiovisual media like pictures, audio and video files (analog and digital). The findings motivate the question whether archives are able to collaborate in projects like europeana if they do not use acc...

Public web archiving on a large scale began in the late 1990s with archives such as Australia’s Pandora and the Internet Archive. These archives were (and still are) much less rigorous than records management systems; indeed, they do not have the resources needed to approach records management rigor. Thus the archives are incomplete, which leads to temporal discrepancies when browsing the archi...

This talk provides an insight into web archives by examining the ”unknown” aspects beyond the archived web pages, or the ”text”. It argues that web archives have a rich set of semantics which when explored offers a new way of understanding their characteristics. It showcases examples of British Library’s work beyond the “document-centric” approach of providing access.