Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities

Oxford Internet Institute, Jane Winters (IHR) - AHRC

Principal Investigator / Director: Jane Winters (IHR)

Oxford participants: James Cummings; Eric Meyer; Ralph Schroeder

Other Participants: not specified

Project Webpage: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/?id=124

Start Date: 2014

End Date: 2015

Funder: AHRC

Partner organizations (inside or outside Oxford): 

British Library Institute of Historical Research, University of London Aarhus University

 

 

Project Description:

Web archives are an increasingly important resource for arts and humanities researchers, yet we have neither the expertise nor the tools to use them effectively. Both the data itself and the process of collection are poorly understood, and it is possible only to draw the broadest of conclusions from current analytical analysis. The Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities project will work with the dataset derived from the UK domain crawl from 1996 to 2013 (that is, when legal deposit legislation was extended to cover digital materials), totalling approximately 65 terabytes and constituting many billions of words. For the arts and humanities, this is very big data indeed.