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Creating Event-Centric Collections from Web Archives

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Web archives are an essential information source for research on historical events. However, the large scale and heterogeneity of web archives make it difficult for researchers to access relevant event-specific materials. In this chapter, we discuss methods for creating event-centric collections from large-scale web archives. These methods are manifold and may require manual curation, adopt search or deploy focused crawling. In this chapter, we focus on the crawl-based methods that identify relevant documents in and across web archives and include link networks as context in the resulting collections.

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  1. University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

    Elena Demidova

  2. L3S Research Center, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Elena Demidova

  3. University Library J. C. Senckenberg, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany

    Thomas Risse

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  1. Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Lisbon, Portugal

    Daniel Gomes

  2. Data Science & Intelligent Systems, Computer Science Institute, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

    Elena Demidova

  3. School of Advanced Study, University of London, London, UK

    Jane Winters

  4. University Library J. C. Senckenberg, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Thomas Risse

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Demidova, E., Risse, T. (2021). Creating Event-Centric Collections from Web Archives. In: Gomes, D., Demidova, E., Winters, J., Risse, T. (eds) The Past Web. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63291-5_6

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