to document the change in government presence from 2010 (when the JISC UK Web Domain Dataset ends) to the present time, as well as introducing a cross-national comparative element. Methodology This project will primarily use and enhance the JISC .uk domain web dataset, a 30 terabyte crawl of the .uk country-code top level domain (ccTLD) maintained by the British Library. The data was collected from 1996 to 2010 and holds the raw HTML of all webpages harvested. This project will enhance the sustainability of the collection by: Extracting all hypertext links from the currently unstructured text of the pages and making it easier to directly query this link data. Investigating and recommending access and tools for querying, analysing, and visualising the dataset to enable wider use. This will include assessing the feasibility of making the data accessible in NodeXL or another popular network open-source software package for analysing graph/link data. Assessing the impact of using the .uk ccTLD as boundary for the UK web presence. Developing recommendations for future web crawls that will be used for link analysis. Demonstrating the value of this collection and a 'big data' approach through novel and innovative political science research using the collection. Blog We are excited to announce an open position for a Big Data Research Officer, who will contribute to three exciting Big Data projects at the OII (Leaders and Followers in Online Activism, Big Data: Demonstrating the Value of the UK Web Domain Dataset for [...]