Temporally Extending Existing Web Archive Collections for Longitudinal AnalysisLesley Frew, Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weiglehttps://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24091
Temporally Extending Existing Web Archive Collections for Longitudinal AnalysisThe Environmental Governance and Data Initiative (EDGI) regularly crawled US federal environmental websites between 2016 and 2020 to capture changes between two presidential administrations. However, because it does not include the previous administration ending in 2008, the collection is unsuitable for answering our research question, Were the website terms deleted by the Trump administration (2017--2021) added by the Obama administration (2009--2017)? Thus, like many researchers using the Way…