Sorting URLs out: seeing the web through infrastructural inversion of archival crawling

Platformizing the Past: The Social Media Logic of Archival Digitization

“…However, both adopt platform strategies and attributes, seeking innovation while optimizing economic and operational efficiencies, and both are dedicated to democratizing information access and aiming to empower their users. Maemura (2023) and Ogden and Maemura (2021) provide further evidence supporting this observation in their comparative studies of the British Library and the Netarchive at the Royal Danish Library. Their analysis demonstrates the complexities and challenges of web archiving in national digital collections, underscoring the significant role of contemporary decisions on the creation and utilization of digital archives.…”

“…Building on this foundation, we explore the platformization of national memory. While previous research has examined the creation of web collections in national libraries (Maemura, 2023;Ogden & Maemura, 2021), or theorized a national library as a platform (Holderbein, 2021), we focus on the transition from analog to digital formats. We aim to dissect how platform imaginaries (van Es & Poell, 2020) shape the practices of memory agents, particularly in the context of the NLI.…”