We’re all experts now? Archiving public health discourse in the UK Web Archive

Emerging from COVID-19 collecting initiatives that underscored the fragility of online health discourse, the Archive of Tomorrow was an ambitious collaborative project that set out to curate a representative and diverse collection of public health websites in the UK. The project encountered a number...

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Main Authors Austin, Alice, Talboom, Leontien
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Florence Firenze University Press 2024
SeriesProceedings e report
Subjects
Archiving, preservation and digitization
Bibliographic and subject control
collection development
health information
legal deposit
Library and information sciences / Museology
Library, archive and information management
metadata
misinformation
Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects
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ISBN9791221504132
ISSN2704-5846
DOI10.36253/979-12-215-0413-2.25

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Summary:Emerging from COVID-19 collecting initiatives that underscored the fragility of online health discourse, the Archive of Tomorrow was an ambitious collaborative project that set out to curate a representative and diverse collection of public health websites in the UK. The project encountered a number of challenges, such as technical barriers in capturing interactive and dynamic sites, ethical considerations concerning how disputed or outdated information might be responsibly made available to researchers, and philosophical questions about how ‘health information' is to be defined. This chapter reports on the outcomes of the project and discusses future directions for improving the production and use of large-scale archived web collections.
ISBN:9791221504132
ISSN:2704-5846
DOI:10.36253/979-12-215-0413-2.25