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Small Data and Big Data - Web Archives and Research in the Humanities

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This course aims to bridge disciplines in analyzing text as social and cultural data, focusing on the potential benefits of using large-scale text data to study social and cultural phenomena. The course covers topics such as web archives, NLP/ML methodologies, and interdisciplinary synergies. The teaching method involves workshop sessions. The intended audience for this course includes researchers in the humanities, social sciences, and those interested in text analysis and data research.

Syllabus

Introduction
Finding web archives
UK web domain crawl
UK government web archive
University of Plymouth
The web archive
The British Library Homepage
Temporal inconsistencies
Duplication
The live web
The web at large
The UK web archive
Digital palimpsest
A clear imperative
Word of the year 2004
Word of the year 2008
Steampunk
London bombings
Citizen journalism
The Archos
Fan related material
News coverage
The Archers
Conclusion

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Alan Turing Institute

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