Paul Gooding, Melissa Terras, Linda Berube &ndash; University of East Anglia, United Kingdom; University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Legal Deposit Web Archives and the Digital Humanities: A Universe of Lost Opportunity?
University of East Anglia, United Kingdom; University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
web-archiving/legal-aspects
Restricted deposit library access requires researchers to look elsewhere for portable web data: by undertaking their own web crawls, or by utilising datasets from Common Crawl (http://commoncrawl.org/) and the Internet Archive (https://archive.org). Both organisations provide vital services to researchers, and both innovate in areas that would traditionally fall under the deposit libraries’ purview. They support their mission by exploring the boundaries of copyright, including exceptions for non-commercial text and data mining (Intellectual Property Office, 2014). This contrast between risk-enabled independent organisations and deposit libraries, described by interviewees as risk averse, challenges library/DH collaboration models such as BL Labs (http://labs.bl.uk) and Library of Congress Labs (https://labs.loc.gov).