ASEEES 2014: seeking 3rd Panelist for Session on Web Archiving

[Thomas F. Keenan]

Dear SEELANGS,

A panel on Web Archiving scheduled for Thursday Nov. 20 at 1pm is unexpectedly short one paper. The panel abstract and titles of the 2 papers are given below. If you think you could contribute to this panel and would be available to participate please send a paper title and abstract off-list to tkeenan at princeton.edu<mailto:tkeenan at princeton.edu>.

Many thanks,
Thomas

Panel Abstract
The archiving of the zones of the Internet maintained by individuals and institutions in Russia and other parts of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union is a seriously underserviced imperative. Much of the web output published and distributed by residents and institutions in the still fluid and in some areas volatile post-Soviet space represents documents of value to present-day humanities and social-science researchers and to future historians. An illustrative example of this would be the multifarious documents of the relatively novel phenomenon of free multi-vectored web 2.0 mass communication in states where the de facto freedoms of expression and of the press are seriously in question. The papers on this panel will bring the urgency of this imperative into sharp relief, by charting specific deposits of endangered valuable content, and will discuss in-progress initiatives - in the regions themselves and at North American institutions - to archive Internet content from this part of the world.

Papers:


Maira Bundza : Web Archiving in the Baltic States
The national libraries of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are responsible for archiving all that is published in and about their countries. They interpret this as including the Web and have taken on the responsibility of archiving the Web in their respective countries. This paper will look at the goals and scope of their archiving endeavors, the technologies and staffing involved, search and retrieval capabilities, standards for collection and storage used and will include any difficulties they have encountered.

Thomas Keenan : Archiving RuNet
This paper will look at specific areas within the Russian Internet or "RuNet" in which endangered content of potentially high research value is found, and strategies for its capture and preservation. There will be some theoretical contemplation of the criteria for selection of material and the determination of potential research value, as well as discussion of technical challenges and the capabilities and limitations of specific web-archiving technologies.

Thomas Keenan
Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Librarian
Princeton University Library
One Washington Road, Princeton New Jersey 08544-2098
(tel.) 609-258-3592 (fax.) 609-258-6950
tkeenan at princeton.edu


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