Presentation for the Society of American Archivists 2014 Annual Meeting, session 502: "Untangling the Web: Diverse Experiences with Access from the Web Archiving Trenches."

1. Campaign Web Archives to
Support Multi-Institutional
Research
Nicholas Taylor (@nullhandle)
Web Archiving Service Manager
Stanford University Libraries
SAA Annual Meeting: “Untangling the Web”
August 15, 2014

2. web archives research
“Where are we today?” from IIPC 2014 General Assembly “Concluding Remarks” by Niels Brügger

3. 2014 congressional elections
“2014 Candidate Summary” by Federal Election Commission

4. project background

5. research questions
• How do the type and
geographic locations of
campaign events vary with
the characteristics of
constituencies?
• When do candidates stage
campaign events in
“friendly” places?
• How do incumbent
Congress members speak
with home constituencies?
“Calendar from Calendar Project” by Caroline under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
“Goonies Treasure Map” by Scott Howard under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

6. limitations of archiving technology
“0637sol” by A Bill Miller under CC BY-NC 2.0

7. solutions and workarounds
“Image from page 34 of "Laboratory manual for the detection of poisons and
powerful drugs. Authorized translation of the completely rev. 4th German
ed." (1915)” by Internet Archive Book Images under CC BY-SA 2.0

8. takeaways
• collaborate w/
partners or leverage
existing web archives
• facilitate research in
the role of technical
problem-solver
• share use cases of
web archives-based
research “wedding favors” by sweetjessie under CC BY-NC 2.0

9. thank you!
“stanford dish at sunset” by Dan under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Nicholas Taylor
ntay@stanford.edu