Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

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...

As we commemorate the Internet Archive turning 25 years , I decided to unearth some memories from the most precious days of my life.  I attended Devi Balika Vidyalaya, Colombo, Sri Lanka for my high school education (2004-2012). In 2004, I joined the Junior Western Band of our school which paved the way for me to join “DBVSBB”, Devi Balika Vidyalaya Senior Brass Band in the following year. Being a senior brass band member at my school for seven years (Figure 01), I have attended many concerts, received many certificates, and won numerous competitions. Fast forward to 2021, being a Ph.D. student working in the realm of web archiving, I was keen to look for any online presence of our band’s achievements at the time through web archives. Figure 01: A few pictures taken at the band practices and concerts over the years. As step one in discovering mementos from Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, I was trying to recall a time where our band got featured on a newspaper or website. Unfo...