1. VERSITET Niels Brügger AARHUS UNIVERSITY 4 DECEMBER 2014 UNI Status update: National web spheres within the European Union

2. AARHUS UNIVERSITY Discussion: possible new activities Niels Brügger 4 DECEMBER 2014 THE IDEA ›How to analyse a national web and its historical development, based on studies of material in national web archives? ›Can we make a trans-national set-up, using the same analytical design (wholly or partly)? ›National ‘Web Trend Indexes’ => European ‘Web Trend Index’, showing developments of the European web 2

3. AARHUS UNIVERSITY Discussion: possible new activities Niels Brügger 4 DECEMBER 2014 STATUS ›The Danish project ‘Probing a Nation's Web Domain — the Historical Development of the Danish Web’, had our first meeting some weeks ago ›first task: how to establish a corpus with only one version of each web entity? ›second task: to get more funding ›hopefully we can share our experiences in 2015 ›BUDDAH also aims at analysing the historical development of a national web ›We have not tried to coordinate things yet 3

4. AARHUS UNIVERSITY Discussion: possible new activities Niels Brügger 4 DECEMBER 2014 THE DANISH CASE: AN OUTLINE OF AN ANALYTICAL DESIGN A gross list of possible 'probes': ›Size — Bytes ›Space — Geolocation ›Structure — Networks of hyperlinks ›Liveliness — Domain names and updating ›Content — Closedness, file and software types, language, textual elements on webpage, and semantics 4

5. AARHUS UNIVERSITY Discussion: possible new activities Niels Brügger 4 DECEMBER 2014 An outline of an analytical design: Size — Bytes ›How small/big is a nation’s web sphere? ›The size of different file types and of file types in general ›How big/small are websites? ›Netarkivet’s snapshot, 2006: ›85% are smaller than 10MB ›less than 1% are bigger than 500MB 5

6. AARHUS UNIVERSITY Discussion: possible new activities Niels Brügger 4 DECEMBER 2014 An outline of an analytical design: Space — Geolocation ›Where are websites located? ›Search the text for geographic references, e.g. postcodes 6

7. AARHUS UNIVERSITY Discussion: possible new activities Niels Brügger 4 DECEMBER 2014 AN OUTLINE OF AN ANALYTICAL DESIGN: NETWORKS/HYPERLINKS Website internal/external hyperlinks ›Are websites closed or open towards the web? ›How flat/deep are websites? 7

8. AARHUS UNIVERSITY Discussion: possible new activities Niels Brügger 4 DECEMBER 2014 AN OUTLINE OF AN ANALYTICAL DESIGN: NETWORKS/HYPERLINKS Web sphere internal/external hyperlinks Mapping the hyperlink network of the web sphere: ›centrality based on in-degree The possible inconsistency of hyperlinks challenge these types of analyses. 8

9. AARHUS UNIVERSITY Discussion: possible new activities Niels Brügger 4 DECEMBER 2014 AN OUTLINE OF AN ANALYTICAL DESIGN: NETWORKS/HYPERLINKS Web sphere internal/external hyperlinks Mapping the hyperlinks pointing out of the web sphere: ›How well-linked is the national web sphere to the rest of the web? ›Which other domain names are the most linked-to? 9

10. AARHUS UNIVERSITY Discussion: possible new activities Niels Brügger 4 DECEMBER 2014 AN OUTLINE OF AN ANALYTICAL DESIGN: LIVELINESS How lively is a nation’s web sphere? ›Domain names: number of new/inactive/disappeared domain names ›Updating: number of websites having been changed since last snapshot 10

11. AARHUS UNIVERSITY Discussion: possible new activities Niels Brügger 4 DECEMBER 2014 AN OUTLINE OF AN ANALYTICAL DESIGN: CONTENT Content: What is actually to be found on the webpages? ›Closedness ›File and software types ›Language ›Textual elements on webpage ›Semantics 11

12. AARHUS UNIVERSITY Discussion: possible new activities Niels Brügger 4 DECEMBER 2014 AN OUTLINE OF AN ANALYTICAL DESIGN: CONTENT Closedness How many websites are password protected? 12

13. AARHUS UNIVERSITY Discussion: possible new activities Niels Brügger 4 DECEMBER 2014 AN OUTLINE OF AN ANALYTICAL DESIGN: CONTENT File and software types ›Which file types are the most prevalent? ›Which software types are the most widespread? 13

14. AARHUS UNIVERSITY Discussion: possible new activities Niels Brügger 4 DECEMBER 2014 AN OUTLINE OF AN ANALYTICAL DESIGN: CONTENT Language ›Does the national language prevail? — or do regional languages? — or foreign languages? 14

15. AARHUS UNIVERSITY Discussion: possible new activities Niels Brügger 4 DECEMBER 2014 AN OUTLINE OF AN ANALYTICAL DESIGN: CONTENT Textual elements on webpage ›Background color ›Most used fonts ›Length of webpages ›Placing of menu items (left align, vertical, or top align, horizontal) 15

16. AARHUS UNIVERSITY Discussion: possible new activities Niels Brügger 4 DECEMBER 2014 AN OUTLINE OF AN ANALYTICAL DESIGN: CONTENT Semantics Word based analyses can tell us about: ›word frequencies ›where specific issues or topics are to be found, and how they spread 16