Hyperlinked Homeland: A Historical Hyperlink Analysis of 200 Dutch LGBT+ Websites
This presentation analyses 200 Dutch LGBT+ websites through historical hyperlink analysis. It argues that national and local contexts remain important despite the transnational framing of queer cultures. Drawing on a project with the National Library of the Netherlands (KB), it examines websites harvested in 2020 from the KB’s LGBT+ web collection. The findings reveal a distinctly Dutch queer web sphere: most-linked websites belonged to Dutch organisations, most used the .nl domain, and many had a local or regional focus. It also presents a collaborative method for building and analysing datasets to support research on underrepresented web archive collections. Presented at the IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference held on April 20-23, 2026 in Brusells, Belgium.