Copenhagen 11 March 2015 Dias 1 Theme 2a: Media Tools — NetLab, a Research Infrastructure for Internet Studies Niels Brügger, Aarhus University Advisory Board Meeting

Dias 2 Advisory Board Meeting Copenhagen 11 March — work plan and visions The Digital Ecosystem for NetLab ’In context’: No need = no research infrastructure Close interaction with planned or actually ongoing humanities research All elements of the ecosystem are embedded in use cases and case studies Focus on archived web Digital Footprints now available to all academic institutions and currently in open beta

Dias 3 Advisory Board Meeting Copenhagen 11 March 2015 Content Main content source: Netarkivet — the national Danish internet archive. Close collaborations, several meetings per year — management, IT- developers, curators. Training workshops: Based on a comprehensive concept Using web archives in research — a brief introduction (Janne Nielsen, 47 p.) Taylored to fit the research environment, we come to the researchers 4 modules 3 workshops in 2015

Dias 4 Advisory Board Meeting Copenhagen 11 March 2015 Content Plan and visions Develop guidelines and policies for researcher created content: Annotations Web material archived by researchers themselves — data management Training workshops: 3-4 workshops per year Video tutorials and web based learning materials to support the training workshops Advice service: Advice and Assistance Service for Researchers (performed by researcher, and by IT-developer (e.g. like Platform as a Service (PaaS)) Helpdesk service

Dias 5 Advisory Board Meeting Copenhagen 11 March 2015 Technology Close reading: Workspace, the fundamental tool to access and handle the collection Probably usefull for studies <1000 webpages Only little best practice exist, IT-developer develops pilot Distant reading: Collaboration with HPC DeIC Cultural Heritage Cluster Developing guidelines and algorithms for corpus creation and cleaning Establishing legal guidelines Using and testing of the easy-to-use general analytical tools that are part of Cultural Heritage Cluster/IBM Big Insights Close reading Distant reading

Dias 6 Advisory Board Meeting Copenhagen 11 March 2015 Technology Capture tools: Tested and made guidelines for a selection of already existing easy- to-use tools to archive the web: individual webpages, video, sound, entire websites State Library developed tool to make scheduled screen films of webpages

Dias 7 Advisory Board Meeting Copenhagen 11 March 2015 Technology Plan and visions Close reading: Implement workspace pilot Develop guidelines for a workflow: corpus creation => data exportation => use of already existing tools for analysis and visualisation (find, test, and support a limited number of tools, e.g. Gephi, WARCbase) Distant reading: Test the guidelines and algorithms on the HPC DeIC Cultural Heritage Cluster in the project Probing a Nation’s Web Domain Customise/develop apps to IBM Big Insights Test other analytical tools Capture tools: Keep the guidelines up to date

Dias 8 Advisory Board Meeting Copenhagen 11 March 2015 Community — National Training workshops NetLab Forum: Researchers, IT-developers, curators 3-4 annual meetings Applications and network Application for a research centre, a Centre for Digital Humanities at ARTS, Aarhus University — proposal did not continue to second phase Funding from Ministry of Culture, and from DeIC for the project Probing a Nation’s Web Domain

Dias 9 Advisory Board Meeting Copenhagen 11 March 2015 Community — National Plan and visions small bursaries, seed money to researchers Local discussion fora, e.g. ‘Media studies in a digital landscape’

Dias 10 Advisory Board Meeting Copenhagen 11 March 2015 Community — International Applications and networks: Submitting Horizon 2020 proposal for RESAW, ‘A Research infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web’; 15 European and international partners, NetLab coordinator Researchers and IT developers participated in several annual meetings in the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC), also paper this year Plan and visions Continue and expand international network Organise an international workshop in Aarhus in December about the research infrastructure challenges for large scale studies of national web domains; with researchers and IT-developers

Dias 11 Advisory Board Meeting Copenhagen 11 March 2015 Practice NetLab participates in discussions about research ethics and legal requirements: Presentation in DIGETIK and member of Advisory Board Ongoing discussions with State Library’s legal advisor about copyright and privacy issues in relation to Netarkivet, e.g. in relation to Probing a Nation’s Web Domain Plan and visions Continue and expand these contacts and discussions