Methods of Digital Humanities in application for creating and accessing web archives

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As web-based resources are highly ephemeral, archiving websites has by now become an urgent necessity and a daily routine for numerous culture heritage and research institutions. The academic use of these resources however is often constrained to a reading-based approach and additionally, collection development is only partially done in systematic ways. To overcome these shortcomings during the project, methods and tools from the Digital Humanities will be applied to datasets of web archive collections in an exploratory study. Hereby the focus lies on testing innovative and intuitive ways of accessing web-based resources and implementing approaches for an automated and user-based collection development. To prove that those methods and instruments are useful in academic settings, a case study in the political sciences is conducted. Successfully tested and practical tools will be integrated in the project’s web platform. The goal is to design methods and applications in a sustainable way, thus they can be used by other cultural memory institutions engaged in selective web archiving and furthermore can be applied in other digital contexts. As mediating authority between the information service provider Bavarian State Library on the one hand and the academic users on the other hand, the Chair of Digital Humanities of the University of Passau brings into the project the necessary methodological knowledge as well as the provision of a scientific theoretical framework for web archiving.