Thematic Web Archives: Capture reality as it shows up on the Web
“A thematic Web collection is an archive of Web objects identified and captured using a set of URLs believed to be relevant to a specific theme or topic”
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The outstanding, best documented and analysed case is obviously 9/11:
http://september11.archive.org/
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2002/One-year-later-September-11-and-the-Internet.aspx
http://bibnum.bnf.fr/ecdl/2003/proceedings.php?f=schneider
In this sense our article about Carl Backstrom´s death and his traces on the web can be seen as a Thematic Web Archive.
Michael Jackson`s death (25th June 2009), another event that generated immense reaction world wide and on the web, is showing in the following web screen shots:
Techmeme.com, screenshot taken 26th June 2009, click on picture to see the whole page:
Amazon.com, screenshot taken 26th June 2009, click on picture to see the whole page:
Amazon.de, screenshot taken 26th June 2009, click on picture to see the whole page:
Do you have any web screenshots that show reality as it happened, when it happened?
To be continued.
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