2018-05-15: Archives Unleashed: Toronto Datathon Trip Report

The Archives Unleashed team (pictured below) hosted a two-day datathon, April 26-27, 2018, at the University of Toronto’s Robarts Library. This time around, Shawn Jones and I were selected to represent the Web Science and Digital Libraries ( WSDL ) research group from Old Dominion University . This event was the first in a series of four planned datathons to give researchers, archivists, computer scientists, and many others the opportunity to get hands-on experience with the Archives Unleashed Toolkit ( AUT ) and provide valuable feedback to the team. The AUT facilitates analysis and processing of web archives at scale and the datathons are designed to help participants find ways to incorporate these tools into their own workflow. Check out the Archives Unleashed team on Twitter and their website to find other ways to get involved and stay up to date with the work they’re doing. Archives Unleashed datathon organizers (left to right): Nich Worby , Ryan Deschamps , Ia