Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

  Siegen University The 6th RESAW (Research Infrastructures for the Study of Archived Web Materials) conference took place in Siegen, Germany from June 4 – June 6, 2025. The conference occurs every other year in Europe, and features a mix of presentations along the spectrum from technical to digital humanities, by researchers affiliated with universities as well as from national and commercial web archiving organizations. The conference started off with quite a flurry when Cologne was evacuated following discovery of WWII bombs, disrupting many travel plans into Siegen. Wednesday Workshop: Mentorship for Early Career Scholars in Web Archive Studies The Mentorship for Early Career Scholars in Web Archive Studies workshop started with participants introducing themselves. There were PhD students, postdocs, and mentors. Then, participants wrote down questions they had about web archive studies. The mentors characterized the questions into similar topics such as ethics, publishing, and...

Screenshots of world local newspapers from the Local Memory Project 's local news repository. Top: newspapers from Iraq, Nigeria, and France. Bottom: Chile, US (Alaska), and Australia. Soon after the introduction of the Local Memory Project  (LMP) and the local news repository of: 5,992 US Newspapers 1,061 US TV stations, and 2,539 US Radio stations I considered extending the local news collection beyond US local media to include newspapers from around the world. Finding and generating the world local newspaper dataset After a sustained search, I narrowed my list of potential sources of world local news media to the following in order of my perceived usefulness: Paperboy Online Newspapers | US & World Newspapers The Keele Guide to Media on the Internet Online Newspaper Directory for the World Hot Newspapers ABYZ News Links Radio locator Radio Station World Refdesk: NEWSPAPERS - USA AND WORLDWIDE Newspapermap List of Newspapers Allafrica Inte...