Web Archives for Longitudinal Knowledge
Spearheaded by the University of Waterloo, York University, and the University of Alberta, and with infrastructure provided by a Compute Canada Research Platforms and Portals grant, this project brings together interested Canadian partners to provide access to collections of Canadian websites crawled and archived by the Internet Archive.
Contact
Ian Milligan, Assistant Professor of History , principal investigator of the Web Archives for Historical Research Group, University of Waterloo, principal investigator of the Compute Canada Research Platforms and Portals WALK application.
Nick Ruest, Digital Assets Librarian, York University, Co-principal investigator of the Web Archives for Historical Research Group, and co-principal investigator of the Compute Canada Research Platforms and Portals WALK application.
Geoff Harder, Associate
University Librarian
geoffrey.harder@ualberta.ca
780-492-7914
Sam Popowich, Discovery and Web Services Librarian
sam.popowich@ualberta.ca
780-492-8215
Dr. Geoffrey Martin Rockwell, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities Computing, University of Alberta
Dr. Todd Suomela, CLIR-DLF Postdoctoral Fellow for Data Curation in the Sciences and Social Sciences at the University of Alberta
Sonya Betz, Digital Initiatives Projects Librarian
sonya.betz@ualberta.ca
780-492-1718
Peter Binkley, Digital
initiatives Technology Librarian
peter.binkley@ualberta.ca
780-492-3743
Partners and Supporters
- UK Web Archive: platform development
- University of Toronto Libraries: access to Archive-It Collection of Canadian Political Parties and Political Interest Groups
- Computing assistance: Compute Canada and the York University Library
- Archive-It
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
- Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation's Early Researcher Award program.
- Computing infrastructure is provided by a Compute Canada Research Platforms and Portals grant
Documentation
WALK Website: http://webarchives.ca/
