Nick Ruest

Nick Ruest is a Senior Librarian in the Digital Scholarship Infrastructure Department at York University. At York University, he oversees the library’s preservation initiatives, along with creating and implementing systems that support the capture, description, delivery, and preservation of digital objects having significant content of enduring value.

His research has centered on developing and supporting computational tools and methodologies for web archives, as well as creating data collection and analysis pipelines. From 2017 to 2023, he was co-Principal Investigator of the Archives Unleashed Project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (now continued as a service of the Internet Archive). He also served as co-Principal Investigator on the SSHRC-funded project “A Longitudinal Analysis of the Canadian World Wide Web as a Historical Resource, 1996-2014” (2015–2021) and the Compute Canada Research Platforms and Portals project Web Archives for Longitudinal Knowledge (2016–2020). Currently, he is co-Principal Investigator on the SSHRC-funded project “Developing Scholarly Digital Feminist Networks in Canada: Resources, Toolkits, and Outreach”, and faculty for Archiving the Black Web’s WARC School.