Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

The Archives Unleashed Datathon is a two-day event hosted by the Archive Unleashed team where participants from different research backgrounds collaborate together to explore web archive collections. The fourth Archives Unleashed datathon partnered with Columbia University Libraries  was supposed to happen in New York City. However, as the spread of COVID-19 cases began to increase, the organizers had to make the tough decision of canceling the New York datathon. Due to the rapidly-evolving COVID-19 situation, we have canceled the datathon which was to be held at Columbia University, March 26-27, 2020. This decision was not taken lightly and was made with the best interests of our attendees. We have been in touch with all attendees. — The Archives Unleashed Project (@unleasharchives) March 3, 2020 In the same email that brought the news of event cancellation, Ian Milligan also mentioned the possibility of organizing the event online through Zoom and ...

They : Hey Sawood , nice to see you again. Me : Hi, I am glad to see you too. They : Did you attend all hackathons, I mean datathons? Me : Yes, I attended all of the four Archives Unleashed events so far. They : How did you like it? Me : Well, there is a reason why I attended all of them, despite being a seemingly busy PhD researcher. They : So, what is your research about? Me : I am trying to profile various web archives to build a high-level understanding of their holdings, primarily, for the sake of efficiently routing Memento aggregation requests, but there can be many more use cases of such profiles... [and the conversation continues...] On day zero of Archives Unleashed 4.0 in London, conversations among many familiar and unfamiliar faces started with travel and lodging related questions, but soon emerged into mass storage challenges, scaling issues, quality and coverage of web archives, long-term maintenance of archival tools, documentation and d...