Web collection NL-blogosfeer

In 2018 I, Iris Geldermans, worked as an intern for the KB – National Library of the Netherlands to form a collection of Dutch weblogs for the webarchive named the NL-blogosfeer. For more information about the collection please visit https://lab.kb.nl/dataset/web-collection-nl-blogosfeer

Documents

In 2018 a collection of websites was made with some metadata that was manually added. In this Excel document you can find the following metadata information (in Dutch): 

• indexnr
• Date added to the WCT  [WebCuratorTool, the harvest tool we use]
• Date in case the website was already in the WCT
• Geselecteerd via
• bronbestand    
• webadress (URL)    
• Webpage (URI)    
• Website sold / link removed [please be mindful that the dataset has not been updated since 2018 so information can be dated!]
• Name
• Theme / Genre
• Multiple authors
• Format
• Date blog started
• Special collection
• Other special collection(s)

For more information about the metadata columns see chapter 5 and 8 in the collection description. 

In 2018 a collection description was written in Dutch: it was updated slightly for publication in 2020-2021

In 2020 the collection of the NL-blogosfeer websites (urls) was extracted from the webarchive with some metadata added automatic. In this Excel document you can find the following metadata information (in Dutch): 

• Selection date
• Name
• URL
• Status (is it still online)
• Web collection(s) it is a part of