2023-04-11 Statusmeeting

Our internal harvesting workshop about Browsertrix finished at the end of March. A total of 10 testers participated and more than 80 crawls have been launched for 40 use cases analysed.
Each tester completed a use case analysis grid in order to structure the test feedback. Our feedback will be summarised and presented to the community soon.

Within the framework of our internal project to improve our harvests, we are currently running tests on Twitter accounts in order to improve the harvest. All the selected accounts are not covered homogeneously by the harvest. Many images are notably missing. According to our tests, it might come from the mass of data that we try to harvest.

The Environmental issues and Artificial Intelligence harvests have been launched at the end of March and concerns more than 700 and 650 selections respectively. The AI harvest has been enriched by selections about prompt art and generative AI.

Finally, the international ResPaDon symposium entitled “The web: source and archive” was held in Lille from 3 to 5 April. It gave rise to many exchanges between researchers and library professionals around web archives.

Creation of a new event collection about the regional and local elections in Spain. In total 12 regions have elections and the whole country has local elections. We coordinate with the different web curators the seed selection and quality control. The elections are going to take place on May 28th.

The preparation of the broad crawl of open access journal has been finished. We will be launch it at the end of April.

We continue with the problems with Twitter. Tests under similar conditions give very different results and we don't know why. Thanks to the BNF and especially to Clara for her help with the templates and these problems. We expect to find a solution soon, this year there going to be regional and national elections, and Social Networks are very important for us.