Two recently published books—one by Ian Milligan (2019) and one edited by Niels Brügger and Ralph Schroeder (2017)—provide essential guides to help answer the question of what web archives are by describing concrete, nonhypothetical examples of how social science and humanities researchers are using web archives today. For those who have participated in web archiving activity and pondered how the records would get used, and for those who are looking to get involved in web archiving but are not sure what it takes, these two books are essential reading.

 

Die Ermittlungen zur Tat waren zunächst nur schleppend in Gang gekommen. Die Ermittler hatten im Laufe der Jahre unzählige Spuren und Hinweise verfolgt, die zu einzelnen Tatverdächtigen, aber unter anderem auch zur kurdischen PKK und zum südafrikanischen Geheimdienst geführt hatten. Ein drogensüchtiger und vorbestrafter Mann wurde Ende 1988 festgenommen und von Lisbet Palme als Täter identifiziert. Er wurde später von einem Gericht für den Mord verurteilt, in einem Berufungsverfahren mangels einwandfreier Beweise aber wieder freigesprochen. 2004 starb er.

But the visibility of bikes in the protests also reflects a larger trend. In 2020, we are experiencing what is likely the greatest bicycle boom in at least a half century. Several factors have contributed to the bicycling revival, but the spectre of climate change and other crises gripping the globe are certainly part of the equation. In an ecologically imperiled, rapidly urbanizing, traffic-shackled twenty-first century, the zero-emissions two-wheeler has reëmerged as a darling of urbanists, policymakers, and commuters. The boom has transformed American cities with new bicycle infrastructure, bike-share programs, and other pro-cycling initiatives.