Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities (BUDDAH)

网络档案是艺术和人文研究人员日益重要的资源，但我们既没有专业知识，也没有工具来有效地利用它们。人们对数据本身和收集过程都知之甚少，只能从目前的分析分析中得出最广泛的结论。拟议中的项目将专注于对1996年至2013年（即法定存款立法扩展到数字材料时）英国域名抓取的数据集进行更深入的分析，总计约65tb，包含数十亿个单词。对于艺术和人文学科来说，这确实是非常大的数据。该项目的一个关键目标将是开发一个理论和方法框架来研究这些数据，这将适用于更大的正在进行的英国域名抓取，以及在其他国家背景下。研究人员将与大英图书馆的开发人员合作，共同开发支持他们需求的工具，测试不同的方法和方法。这些可能包括，但不限于，情感分析，主题建模，邻近搜索，链接分析和地理空间分析。数据的规模和相互联系需要一种分析性的大数据方法，而不是单个网页的呈现。一项关于1996年至2013年英国网络空间历史的主要研究，包括语言、文件格式、多媒体内容的发展、权力和访问的转变等，将由一系列来自一系列学科的子项目补充，例如当代史、文学、性别研究和物质文化。项目产出将包括一套与1996-2013年数据集相关的工具；由分项目产生的一系列个案研究；为艺术和人文研究人员提供的在线培训课程；同行评议的期刊文章；以及一本关于这一时期英国网络历史的专著。

Web archives are an increasingly important resource for arts and humanities researchers, yet we have neither the expertise nor the tools to use them effectively. Both the data itself and the process of collection are poorly understood, and it is possible only to draw the broadest of conclusions from current analytical analysis. The proposed project will focus on deeper analysis of the dataset derived from the UK domain crawl from 1996 to 2013 (that is, when legal deposit legislation was extended to cover digital materials), totalling approximately 65 terabytes and constituting many billions of words. For the arts and humanities, this is very big data indeed.A key objective of the project will be to develop a theoretical and methodological framework within which to study this data, which will be applicable to the much larger on-going UK domain crawl, as well as in other national contexts. Researchers will work with developers at the British Library to co-produce tools which will support their requirements, testing different methods and approaches. These may include, but are not limited to, sentiment analysis, topic modelling, proximity searching, link analysis, and geo-spatial analysis. The scale and inter-connectedness of the data requires an analytical, big data approach rather than the rendering of individual web pages.A major study of the history of UK web space from 1996 to 2013, including language, file formats, the development of multimedia content, shifts in power and access, and so on, will be complemented by a series of sub-projects from a range of disciplines, for example contemporary history, literature, gender studies and material culture.Project outputs will include a suite of tools associated with the 1996-2013 dataset; a series of case studies produced by the sub-projects; an online training course for arts and humanities researchers; peer-reviewed journal articles; and a monograph on the history of the UK web during this period.