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by Shawn M. Jones, Himarsha Jayanetti, Martin Klein, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson
Web archives are sources of big data. When presenting human visitors with archived web pages, or mementos, web archives often apply user interface augmentations to assist them. Unfortunately, these augmentations present challenges for natural language processing, computer visi...
by Shawn M. Jones, Martin Klein, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson
People often create themed collections to make sense of an ever-increasing number of archived web pages. Some of these collections contain hundreds of thousands of documents. Thousands of collections exist, many covering the same topic. Few collections include standardized met...
by Shawn M. Jones and Diane Oyen
Understanding the spread of images across the web helps us understand the reuse of scientific visualizations and their relationship with the public. The “Flatten the Curve” graphic was heavily used during the COVID-19 pandemic to convey a complex concept in a simple form. It d...
I had a paper accepted to the Drawings and abstract Imagery: Representation and Analysis (DIRA) workshop, allowing me to attend the 17 th European Conference on Computer Vision 2022 (ECCV 2022) in Tel Aviv, Israel, from October 23 - 27. ECCV 2022 is a large conference with att...
Much computer vision research has focused on natural images, but technical documents typically consist of abstract images, such as charts, drawings, diagrams, and schematics. How well do general web search engines discover abstract images? Recent advancements in computer visio...
by Shawn M. Jones, Diane Oyen
Much computer vision research has focused on natural images, but technical documents typically consist of abstract images, such as charts, drawings, diagrams, and schematics. How well do general web search engines discover abstract images? Recent advancements in computer visio...
by Himarsha R. Jayanetti, Shawn M. Jones, Martin Klein, Alex Osbourne, Paul Koerbin, Michael L. Nelson, Michele Weigle
As web archives’ holdings grow, archivists subdivide them into collections so they are easier to understand and manage. In this work, we review the collection structures of eight web archive platforms. We note a plethora of different approaches to web archive collection struct...
by Martin Klein, Shawn M. Jones
Referencing resources on the web has become an integral part of our digital scholarship. However, the long-term availability and accessibility of these resources has rarely been the focus of significant research and development efforts. In this paper we introduce the Zotero Ro...
by Shawn M. Jones, Himarsha R. Jayanetti, Alex Osborne, Paul Koerbin, Martin Klein, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson
The Dark and Stormy Archives (DSA) Project applies social media storytelling to a subset of a collection to facilitate collection understanding at a glance. As part of this work, we developed the DSA Toolkit, which helps archivists and visitors leverage this capability. As par...
In a perfect world, all articles consistently contain sufficient metadata to describe the resource. We know this is not the reality, so we are motivated to investigate the evolution of the metadata that is present when authors and publishers supply their own. Because applying ...