Web Archives of Tragedy: Ethical, Sustainable Access and Research Use for 9/11 Collections
This presentation examines September 11 web archives and proposes a reusable dataset that brings together fragmented collections of messages from platforms such as Yahoo! Groups and listservs. It outlines a workflow for deduplication, normalization, and packaging, while addressing the ethical challenge of making historically public but newly searchable material available in ways that protect privacy and support responsible reuse. Presented at the IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference held on April 20-23, 2026 in Brusells, Belgium.