Interviews on Current Practices for Describing and Providing Access to UK Public Sector Web Archives

This dataset contains qualitative interview data which investigated current practice for describing and providing access to UK Public Sector Web Archives. Participants included staff responsible for the management and curation of the following web archives:

UK Web Archive (four of the six Legal Deposit libraries: the British Library, Bodleian Libraries, Cambridge University Library, and the National Library of Scotland)
UK Government Web Archive (The National Archives)
UK Parliament Web Archive (Parliamentary Archives)
NRS Web Archive (National Records of Scotland) and
PRONI Web Archive (Public Record Office Northern Ireland).
Available to the public are the University of Dundee (UoD) ethics application for this study, including the research data management plan and information provided to organisations before participating in the study. The report of interview codes and code groups (the 'Codebook') demonstrates the connections made across responses. This is supplemented by a redacted report of quotations by code, organised by code group and document.
This qualitative interview data, and subsequent analysis, forms the basis of the Masters thesis 'Web Archives for All? Towards Equitable Access to UK Public Sector Web Archives' submitted as part of the MLitt Archives and Records Management at the University of Dundee.