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

由于基于网络的资源是非常短暂的，存档网站现在已经成为许多文化遗产和研究机构的迫切需要和日常事务。然而，这些资源的学术使用往往局限于以阅读为基础的方法，此外，藏书的发展只有一部分是以系统的方式进行的。为了克服项目期间的这些缺点，将在一项探索性研究中将数字人文科学的方法和工具应用于网络档案收藏的数据集。因此，重点在于测试获取网络资源的创新和直观方式，以及实施自动化和以用户为基础的馆藏开发方法。为了证明这些方法和工具在学术环境中是有用的，进行了一项政治学的案例研究。成功测试和实用的工具将整合到该项目的网络平台中。其目标是以可持续的方式设计方法和应用程序，以便它们可以被从事有选择的网络存档的其他文化记忆机构使用，并进一步应用于其他数字环境。作为信息服务提供商巴伐利亚州立图书馆和学术用户之间的调停权威，帕苏大学数字人文学科教席将必要的方法知识以及为网络存档提供的科学理论框架带入该项目。

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.