This CEDWARC presentation highlights AlNoamany’s Algorithm and other research done to apply social media storytelling techniques to web archives, including the MementoEmbed and Raintale projects.
One of the most challenging problems to solve while conducting user studies is recruiting participants. Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MT) solves this problem by providing a marketplace where participants can earn money by completing studies for researchers. This blog post summariz...
With web archives, journalists find evidence and information to back up their stories, historians store information for later users, and social scientists can study the actions of humans during specific time periods. These different groups gain value not only from creating their ...
Raintale is the latest entry in the Dark and Stormy Archives project. Our goal is to provide research studies and tools for combining web archives and social media storytelling. Raintale provides the storytelling capability. It has been designed to visualize a small number of ...
Since 2013, I have been a principal contributor to the Memento MediaWiki Extension. We recently released version 2.2.0 to support MediaWiki versions of 1.31.1 and greater. During the extension’s development, I have detailed some of its concepts on this blog, I have presented i...
On Tuesday, we released our latest pre-print "Social Cards Probably Provide Better Understanding of Web Archive Collections". My work builds on AlNoamany’s work of using social media storytelling to provide a visualization that summarizes web archive collections. In previous b...
Google+ will be shut down on April 2, 2019. In this blog post I cover how much of Google+ is archived and how to archive its pages.
by Shawn M. Jones
Ever since the Internet Archive started large-scale web archiving in 1996, historians, sociologists, and journalists have found web archives to be an important source of information for their work. Archive-It, a service focused on creating collections, allows curators to gene...
by Shawn M. Jones, Michelle C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson
Web archive collections are created with a particular purpose in mind. A curator selects seeds, or original resources, which are then captured by an archiving system and stored as archived web pages, or mementos. The systems that build web archive collections are often configu...
by Shawn M. Jones, Alexander Nwala, Michelle C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson
Web archives, a key area of digital preservation, meet the needs of journalists, social scientists, historians, and government orga- nizations. The use cases for these groups often require that they guide the archiving process themselves, selecting their own original resources...
