Brenda Reyes Ayala

Brenda Reyes Ayala is an Assistant Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Education. Her research focuses on web archiving, digital preservation, and information quality, with a particular emphasis on technical and human dimensions of preserving digital heritage.

Her work addresses challenges such as archivability metrics, content drift detection, and visual correspondence analysis in web archives. She also explores socio-technical aspects like internet access barriers (e.g., in Cuba) and user misconceptions about web archives.

Key themes in her publications include automated quality assurance processes, metadata management, and the application of machine learning to evaluate archival and translation quality. Her research bridges technical innovations with human-centered perspectives to ensure web archives remain accessible and meaningful for scholars and communities.

Her contributions include advancing methodologies for detecting quality issues in archived websites through visual and textual analysis, as well as assessing the loss of regional digital heritage in Western Canada.