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VERSITET
Niels Brügger
AARHUSUNIVERSITy 4 December 2014
UNI
Status update: National web spheres within the European Union
AARHUSUNIVERSITy
Discussion: possible new activitiesNiels Brügger
4 December 2014
The idea›How to analyse a national web and its historical development, based on studies of material in national web archives?
›Can we make a trans-national set-up, using the same analytical design (wholly or partly)?
›National ‘Web Trend Indexes’ => European ‘Web Trend Index’, showing developments of the European web
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AARHUSUNIVERSITy
Discussion: possible new activitiesNiels Brügger
4 December 2014
Status›The Danish project ‘Probing a Nation's Web Domain — the Historical Development of the Danish Web’, had our first meeting some weeks ago
›first task: how to establish a corpus with only one version of each web entity?
›second task: to get more funding›hopefully we can share our experiences in 2015›BUDDAH also aims at analysing the historical development of a national web
›We have not tried to coordinate things yet
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AARHUSUNIVERSITy
Discussion: possible new activitiesNiels Brügger
4 December 2014
The Danish case: An outline of an analytical designA gross list of possible 'probes':›Size — Bytes›Space — Geolocation›Structure — Networks of hyperlinks›Liveliness — Domain names and updating›Content — Closedness, file and software types, language, textual elements on webpage, and semantics
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AARHUSUNIVERSITy
Discussion: possible new activitiesNiels Brügger
4 December 2014
An outline of an analytical design: Size — Bytes›How small/big is a nation’s web sphere?›The size of different file types and of file types in general
›How big/small are websites?
›Netarkivet’s snapshot, 2006:›85% are smaller than 10MB›less than 1% are bigger than 500MB
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AARHUSUNIVERSITy
Discussion: possible new activitiesNiels Brügger
4 December 2014
An outline of an analytical design: Space — Geolocation›Where are websites located?
›Search the text for geographic references, e.g. postcodes
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AARHUSUNIVERSITy
Discussion: possible new activitiesNiels Brügger
4 December 2014
An outline of an analytical design: Networks/hyperlinksWebsite internal/external hyperlinks
›Are websites closed or open towards the web?›How flat/deep are websites?
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AARHUSUNIVERSITy
Discussion: possible new activitiesNiels Brügger
4 December 2014
An outline of an analytical design: Networks/hyperlinksWeb sphere internal/external hyperlinks
Mapping the hyperlink network of the web sphere:›centrality based on in-degree
The possible inconsistency of hyperlinks challenge these types of analyses.
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AARHUSUNIVERSITy
Discussion: possible new activitiesNiels Brügger
4 December 2014
An outline of an analytical design: Networks/hyperlinksWeb sphere internal/external hyperlinks
Mapping the hyperlinks pointing out of the web sphere:›How well-linked is the national web sphere to the rest of the web?›Which other domain names are the most linked-to?
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AARHUSUNIVERSITy
Discussion: possible new activitiesNiels Brügger
4 December 2014
An outline of an analytical design: LivelinessHow lively is a nation’s web sphere?
›Domain names: number of new/inactive/disappeared domain names›Updating: number of websites having been changed since last snapshot
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AARHUSUNIVERSITy
Discussion: possible new activitiesNiels Brügger
4 December 2014
An outline of an analytical design: ContentContent: What is actually to be found on the webpages?
›Closedness›File and software types›Language›Textual elements on webpage›Semantics
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AARHUSUNIVERSITy
Discussion: possible new activitiesNiels Brügger
4 December 2014
An outline of an analytical design: ContentClosedness
How many websites are password protected?
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AARHUSUNIVERSITy
Discussion: possible new activitiesNiels Brügger
4 December 2014
An outline of an analytical design: ContentFile and software types
›Which file types are the most prevalent?›Which software types are the most widespread?
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AARHUSUNIVERSITy
Discussion: possible new activitiesNiels Brügger
4 December 2014
An outline of an analytical design: ContentLanguage
›Does the national language prevail? — or do regional languages? — or foreign languages?
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AARHUSUNIVERSITy
Discussion: possible new activitiesNiels Brügger
4 December 2014
An outline of an analytical design: ContentTextual elements on webpage
›Background color›Most used fonts›Length of webpages ›Placing of menu items (left align, vertical, or top align, horizontal)
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