Computational Use of Internet Archive Collections

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Library as Laboratory: A New Series Exploring the From web archives to television news to digitized books & periodicals, dozens of projects rely on the collections available at archive.org for computational & bibliographic research across a large digital corpus. This series will feature six sessions highlighting the innovative scholars that are using Internet Archive collections, services and APIs to support data-driven projects in the humanities and beyond.

Many thanks to the program advisory group:

Dan Cohen, Vice Provost for Information Collaboration and Dean, University Library and Professor of History, Northeastern University
Makiba Foster, Library Regional Manager for the African phone number database American Research Library and Cultural Center, Broward County Library
Mike Furlough, Executive Director, HathiTrust
Harriett Green, Associate University Librarian for Digital Scholarship and Technology Services, Washington University Libraries
Session Details:

Supporting Computational Use of Web Collections
Jefferson Bailey, Internet Archive
Helge Holzmann, Internet Archive

What can you do with billions of archived web pages? In our kickoff session, Jefferson Bailey, Internet Archive’s Director of Web Archiving & Data Services, and Helge Holzmann, Web Data Engineer, will take attendees on a tour of the methods and techniques available for analyzing web archives at scale.