Dark and Stormy Archives & the National Library of Australia

Dark and Stormy Archives & the National Library of Australia

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 ...

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From Researcher to ISTI Postdoctoral Fellow

From Researcher to ISTI Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Diane Oyen strongly suggested submitting an application to the Information Science & Technology Institute (ISTI) Postdoctoral Fellow program. Each year, out of the hundreds of postdocs at LANL, only two are awarded this prestigious position. Last week, I discovered tha...

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HTML Meta Redirects Considered Harmful for Card Generation

HTML Meta Redirects Considered Harmful for Card Generation

A Twitter card often appears in a tweet when a user shares a URL. We found that if the page being shared on Twitter contains an HTML META redirect, Twitter will not follow it to gather information for the card.

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The Return of SHARI -- Bringing News and Web Archive Storytelling Together Again

The Return of SHARI -- Bringing News and Web Archive Storytelling Together Again

SHARI is back. Each day, the Dark and Stormy Archives Project will apply the SHARI process to gather the news articles for the previous day’s top stories and present them as a social media story, as seen above. Each card in the story links to a memento of a news article in a w...

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How the Internet Archive Helped Me Remember CIKM 2019

How the Internet Archive Helped Me Remember CIKM 2019

Last week, I was discussing my publications with a colleague, and I mentioned that I had a paper published at ACM CIKM 2019. They were curious about the conference and its 2019 call for papers (CFP) date. I was trying to recall the conference’s venue and one of the workshop’s ...

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Hypercane: Toolkit for Summarizing Large Collections of Archived Webpages

Hypercane: Toolkit for Summarizing Large Collections of Archived Webpages

by Shawn M. Jones, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson

In the Dark and Stormy Archives (DSA) project, we focus on storytelling techniques to summarize collections of archived web pages. Since collections can have hundreds or even thousands of seeds (initial URLs) and each seed can be recrawled many times, with each version separat...

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Hypercane: Intelligent Sampling for Web Archive Collections

Hypercane: Intelligent Sampling for Web Archive Collections

by Shawn M. Jones, Michele C. Weigle, Martin Klein, Michael L. Nelson

Humans can choose individual documents from a web archive collection, but doing so is difficult if they are unfamiliar with the collection. The issue is scale. Most web archive collections consist of thousands of documents. Hypercane is a tool that automates the selection of d...

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It's All About The Cards: Sharing on Social Media Probably Encouraged HTML Metadata Growth

It's All About The Cards: Sharing on Social Media Probably Encouraged HTML Metadata Growth

by Shawn M. Jones, Valentina Neblitt-Jones, Michele C. Weigle, Martin Klein, and Michael L. Nelson

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 ...

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It's All About The Cards: Sharing on Social Media Encouraged HTML Metadata Growth

It's All About The Cards: Sharing on Social Media Encouraged HTML Metadata Growth

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 ...

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From Student To Researcher III

From Student To Researcher III

After graduating, I officially accepted a position in Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Information Sciences Division (CCS-3) working for Diane Oyen. On October 4, 2021, I will no longer be a member of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Research Library and I will inste...

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