Cultures of the UK web
Abstract
The Author presents a British project – BUDDAH in which scientists used archived content and downloaded from the web to conduct humanistic scientific research. It addressed the claim if there is a point in archiving of websites for research. The article shows multitude of methodological approaches, case studies and technical tools which were created to conduct these researches.References
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