The Past Web: Exploring Web Archives (Paperback)

Part I: The Era of Information Abundance and Memory Scarcity.- The Problem of Web Ephemera.- Web Archives Preserve Our Digital Collective Memory.- Part II Collecting Before It Vanishes.- National Web Archiving in Australia: Representing the Comprehensive.- Web Archiving in Singapore: The Realities of National Web Archiving.- Archiving Social Media: The Case of Twitter.- Part III: Access Methods to Analyse the Past Web.- Full-Text and URL Search Over Web Archives.- A Holistic View on Web Archives.- Interoperability for Accessing Versions of Web Resources with the Memento Protocol.- Linking Twitter Archives with Television Archives.- Image Analytics in Web Archives.- Part IV:  Researching the Past Web.- Digital Archaeology in the Web of Links: Reconstructing a Late-1990sWeb Sphere.- Quantitative Approaches to the Danish Web Archive.- Critical Web Archive Research.- Exploring Online Diasporas: London’s French and Latin American Communities in the UK Web Archive.- Platform and App Histories: Assessing Source Availability in Web Archives and App Repositories.- Part V: Web Archives as Infrastructures to Develop Innovative Services.- The Need for Research Infrastructures for the Study of Web Archives.- Automatic Generation of Timelines for Past-Web Events.- Political Opinions on the Past Web.- Oldweb.today: Browsing the Past Web with Browsers from the Past.- Big Data Science Over the Past Web.- Part VI: A Look into the Future.- The Past Web: A Look into the Future.