[en] This chapter considers the presence, retrievability, and analysis relating to women, gender, and COVID-19 in web archives, based on research in the international “novel coronavirus IIPC collection”. It focuses on challenges raised by the huge IIPC collection regarding multilingualism, “big data”, access and searchability, silence and noise, duplicates and loss of information, and the use of the Archives Research Compute Hub (ARCH) interface, developed by the Archives Unleashed Team. It shares the debates and technical challenges we faced, specifically in selecting computational tools and algorithms for conducting text mining and topic modeling. It also investigates issues relating to transnational studies, digital methods, collaborative work, scalable reading, and gender studies, while reflecting on asymmetries, invisibility, and inclusiveness in web archives.
Research center :
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) > Contemporary European History (EHI)
Disciplines :
Arts & humanities: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Author, co-author :
SCHAFER, Valerie ; University of Luxembourg > Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) > Contemporary European History
CLAVERT, Frédéric ; University of Luxembourg > Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) > Contemporary European History
Aasman, Susan; University of Gröningen
de Wild, Karin; Leiden University
Sirajzade, Joshgun
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
The challenges of searching for women in the COVID-19 web archive collections: Promises, achievements, and pitfalls
Publication date :
April 2025
Main work title :
The Routledge Companion to Transnational Web Archive Studies
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