Sources and Resources Into the Dark Domain: The UK Web Archive as a Source for the Contemporary History of Public Health.
Sources and Resources Into the Dark Domain: The UK Web Archive as a Source for the Contemporary History of Public Health.
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10.1093/shm/hkv028
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2015-08
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Gorsky M
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Gorsky M
随着书面记录从纸质向数字格式的转变，档案工作者和历史学家必须迫切考虑如何保存、检索和分析网络内容。大英图书馆最近获得了大量的英国域名网站，捕获了1996-2010年，通俗地称为暗域档案，同时解决了围绕用户访问的技术问题。本文报告了一个受邀试验项目的结果，该项目探索了围绕该档案使用的方法问题。它询问英国公共卫生和地方政府之间的关系是如何在网络上表现出来的，利用“衰落论”的历史编纂来构建问题。它指出，由于网站的重复，在开发网络内容的综合图片方面存在一些困难。它还强调了它们在主题和话语分析方面的潜力，使用文本和图像，通过对新工党领导下公共卫生政策的矛盾理由的论证来说明。
With the migration of the written record from paper to digital format, archivists and historians must urgently consider how web content should be conserved, retrieved and analysed. The British Library has recently acquired a large number of UK domain websites, captured 1996–2010, which is colloquially termed the Dark Domain Archive while technical issues surrounding user access are resolved. This article reports the results of an invited pilot project that explores methodological issues surrounding use of this archive. It asks how the relationship between UK public health and local government was represented on the web, drawing on the ‘declinist’ historiography to frame its questions. It points up some difficulties in developing an aggregate picture of web content due to duplication of sites. It also highlights their potential for thematic and discourse analysis, using both text and image, illustrated through an argument about the contradictory rationale for public health policy under New Labour.