On July 25, more than 1,300 registrants around the world opened their laptops and started attending SIGIR 2020. Via Zoom and the streaming capabilities of the conference web portal, we were able to watch speakers, raise hands, ask questions, and chat with attendees. SIGIR 202...
Links on the web break all the time. We frequently experience the infamous “404 – Page not found” message, also known as “a broken link” or “link rot.” Sometimes we follow a link and discover that the linked page has significantly changed and its content no longer represents w...
In Part 1, we introduced Hypercane, a tool for automatically sampling mementos from web archive collections. Web archive collections consist of thousands of documents, and humans need tools to intelligently select mementos for a given purpose. Hypercane’s goal is to supply us ...
In Part 1 of this series of blog posts, I introduced Hypercane, a tool for automatically sampling mementos from web archive collections. If a human wishes to create a sample of documents from a web archive collection, they are confronted with thousands of documents from which ...
Yasmin AlNoamany experimented with summarizing a web collection by choosing a small number of exemplars and then visualizing them with social media storytelling. This is in contrast to approaches that try to account for all members of the collection. When I took over the Dark ...
My research focuses on summarizing existing web archive collections through social media storytelling. For this effort, we developed Raintale to tell the stories produced by a selection of mementos. Collections exist at various web archives, like Archive-It and the UK Web Arch...
Students, professors, industry experts, and others came to Beijing to attend the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM). This was the first time CIKM had accepted a long paper from the Old Dominion University Web Science and Digital Li...
Used by a variety of researchers, web archive collections have become invaluable sources of evidence. If a researcher is presented with a web archive collection that they did not create, how do they know what is inside so that they can use it for their own research? Search eng...
by Shawn M. Jones, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson
Used by a variety of researchers, web archive collections have become invaluable sources of evidence. If a researcher is presented with a web archive collection that they did not create, how do they know what is inside so that they can use it for their own research? Search eng...
On October 28, 2019, web archiving experts met with librarians and archivists at the George Washington University in Washington, DC. As part of the Continuing Education to Advance Web Archiving (CEDWARC) effort, we covered several different modules related to tools and technol...
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