The Development of Web Archive “Thai COVID-19 Vaccines”
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14456/jiskku.2023.10Keywords:
Web archive, Web archiving, Thai COVID-19 Vaccines, Medical archivesAbstract
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate web archiving in the field of medical science, specifically focusing on the development of Covid-19 vaccines by Thai researchers. The study aims to design and develop a web archive titled "Thai Covid-19 Vaccines".
Methodology: The study consists of four steps: 1) conducting a literature review on web archiving, medical web archives, and the development of Covid-19 vaccines in Thailand, 2) defining the scope of the web archive and developing an appraisal and selection policy, 3) evaluating and selecting a suitable tool for developing the web archive "Thai Covid-19 Vaccines," and 4) analyzing the archived web content related to the Covid-19 vaccine development in Thailand.
Findings: A trial version of Conifer was utilized to develop the "Thai Covid-19 Vaccines" web archive. The findings reveal that: 1) more web content was archived in 2020 compared to 2019, 2) the archived content primarily originated from news websites, vaccine organizations' websites, and Facebook, respectively, 3) the main topics discussed in both years were the progress and vaccine trials of each organization, and 4) web content on Baiya and Covigen was predominantly archived in 2019, while content on ChulaCov19 and Baiya had higher archival representation in 2020.
Applications of this study: Web archiving is significant for preserving web content for long-term access and use as evidence and for further research. Also, this initiative case could be considered as an initial step for developing web archives.
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