September 11 & The Web
Dear Fellow Internet Researchers, We have been working with the Internet Archive and the Library of Congress to create an archive of web materials related to the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. A limited version of the publicly accessible materials is available at http://september11.archive.org. We are hoping to put together a panel of papers for the IR 3.0 Conference [http://aoir.org/2002/] next fall featuring analyses based on these archived materials. If you are interested in joining this panel, please read on. If you know of someone who might be interested, please forward this email to them. The archive consists of several thousand web sites collected on a daily basis from September 11, 2001 through December 1, 2001. There is a primitive categorization based on "producer type" available for a limited number of sites. Additional cataloguing and indexing work will soon be underway, and participating scholars would have early access to this data. In addition, some limited assistance with using the archive for research purposes will be available. If you are interested in writing and presenting a study of some aspect of the post-September 11 web at the AOIR conference next October, please let us know by email before January 30th. In your response, describe the kind of work you'd like to do, mention how you would plan on using the archived materials to address your research question, and include an abstract of your proposed paper for possible inclusion in the AOIR panel proposal. Thanks -- Steve Schneider (steve@sunyit.edu) Kirsten Foot (kfoot@u.washington.edu)
Steve, Kirsten, everyone, and anyone,
We have been working with the Internet Archive and the Library of Congress to create an archive of web materials related to the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.
In my mind, this is a really interesting and very ambitious project and at the expense of being nosey (!) I'd be interested to hear from either or both of you regarding conceptualizing, building, and implementing such a project. Too often, we discussing findings, but I'm very interested in the stage-by-stage building process of this project. Comments? david silver http://faculty.washington.edu/dsilver/
just found this related bit at http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/webservices/2002/01/18/brewster.html which may be helpful *Kahle:* We use as much open source software as we can; we make as much of our software as we can open because we're a library. The idea is to help people make sense of the Net and we leverage all the open tools. Alexa put up a television archive called tvarchive.org <http://tvnews3.televisionarchive.org/tvarchive/html/> , which is televison news from around the world from Sept. 11 to Sept. 18. Twenty channels in Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Iraqi. Iraqi television is really interesting. So in three weeks, Alexa took all these recordings from tape, massaged them, put them online, and converted them into several different formats. The only way to do this is to cross-cluster hundreds of commodity Linux boxes and use freeware tools, all of which barely work.
-- jeremy hunsinger http://www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy cddc/political science http://www.cddc.vt.edu 526 major williams hall 0130 http://www.dromocracy.com virginia tech -under construction blacksburg, va 24061 540-231-7614
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david silver -
jeremy hunsinger -
Steve Schneider