2023-05-31: Towards an Ethical Framework for Full-Text Search in Web Archives

Figure 1: Arquivo.pt's full-text search engine makes it effortless to search archived content on GeoCities. The exploitative search results for the query " party site:geocities.com ", not included in the figure, show the dangers of full-text search without an ethical framework. On International Women's Day , I wanted to highlight how web archives have preserved progress towards gender equality. Both Archive-It and the UK Web Archive have dedicated collections about this topic. Check out these women's rights web archive collection lists for #IWD2023 : @UKWebArchive women's rights collections: https://t.co/hfuik5pwDf Archive-It women's right collections: https://t.co/IUzAWZsdFF #WebArchiveWednesday — Lesley Frew (@lesley_elis) March 9, 2023 While the Internet Archive does not have any dedicated collections, it is possible to conduct a keyword/metadata search across the Wayback Machine holdings. I performed a Google search (Internet Archive Internatio