Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

They : Hey Sawood , nice to see you again. Me : Hi, I am glad to see you too. They : Did you attend all hackathons, I mean datathons? Me : Yes, I attended all of the four Archives Unleashed events so far. They : How did you like it? Me : Well, there is a reason why I attended all of them, despite being a seemingly busy PhD researcher. They : So, what is your research about? Me : I am trying to profile various web archives to build a high-level understanding of their holdings, primarily, for the sake of efficiently routing Memento aggregation requests, but there can be many more use cases of such profiles... [and the conversation continues...] On day zero of Archives Unleashed 4.0 in London, conversations among many familiar and unfamiliar faces started with travel and lodging related questions, but soon emerged into mass storage challenges, scaling issues, quality and coverage of web archives, long-term maintenance of archival tools, documentation and d...