Since researchers and archivists are most often interested in the on-topic content of these collections, identifying the off-topic Mementos is a crucial first step before further analysis. For that reason, we created the Off-Topic Memento Toolkit (OTMT), which identifies (but ...
We developed MementoEmbed, an archive-aware service that can generate different types of visualizations for a given Memento. MementoEmbed can generate cards that appropriately attribute content to its original resource, including both the original domain and associated favico...
by Shawn M. Jones, Martin Klein, and Herbert Van de Sompel
Links to web resources frequently break, and linked content can change at unpredictable rates. These dynamics of the Web are detrimental when references to web resources provide evidence or supporting information. In this paper, we highlight the significance of reference rot, ...
Individual web archive collections can contain thousands of documents. If a researcher wants to use one of these collections, which one best meets their information need? How does the researcher differentiate them? deally, a user would be able to glance at a visualization and ...
On Friday, Twitter suspended Donald Trump’s account due to concerns that his current and future tweets might continue to foment violence in the United States. Hayes Brown from MSNBC and Marshall Cohen from CNN echoed a concern I had when developing MementoEmbed: what happens t...
Tools like Archive-It and Webrecorder exist that allow users to create web archive collections easily. These collections contain thousands of seeds, and every capture of a seed results in a new memento. If a potential user wants to review a collection to understand it, they ma...
Tools such as Google News and Flipboard exist to convey daily news, but what about the past? In this paper, we describe how to combine several existing tools with web archive holdings to perform news analysis and visualization of the “biggest story” for a given date. StoryGrap...
For traditional library collections, archivists can select a representative sample from a collection and display it in a featured physical or digital library space. Web archive collections may consist of thousands of archived pages, or mementos. How should an archivist display...
by Shawn M. Jones, Alexander C. Nwala, Martin Klein, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson
Tools such as Google News and Flipboard exist to convey daily news, but what about the past? In this paper, we describe how to combine several existing tools with web archive holdings to perform news analysis and visualization of the “biggest story” for a given date. StoryGrap...
by Shawn M. Jones, Martin Klein, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson
For traditional library collections, archivists can select a representative sample from a collection and display it in a featured physical or digital library space. Web archive collections may consist of thousands of archived pages, or mementos. How should an archivist display...
