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

由于基于网络的资源是高度短暂的，存档网站现已成为众多文化遗产和研究机构的迫切需要和日常工作。然而，这些资源的学术使用往往局限于基于阅读的方法，此外，收集发展只是部分地以系统的方式进行。为了克服这些缺点，在项目中，方法和工具，从数字人文将被应用到网络档案收集的数据集在一个探索性的研究。因此，重点在于测试访问基于网络的资源的创新和直观的方式，并实现自动化和基于用户的集合开发的方法。为了证明这些方法和工具在学术环境中是有用的，在政治科学的案例研究进行。经过成功测试的实用工具将被纳入项目的网络平台。其目标是以可持续的方式设计方法和应用程序，从而使它们可以被其他从事选择性网络存档的文化记忆机构使用，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中介机构，帕绍大学数字人文学科主席为该项目提供了必要的方法论知识，并为网络存档提供了科学的理论框架。

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.