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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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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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