Google+ Is Being Shuttered, Have We Preserved Enough of It?
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.
Improving Collection Understanding in Web Archives
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...
The Off-Topic Memento Toolkit
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...
Web mentions
The Many Shapes of Archive-It
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...
The Off-Topic Memento Toolkit
I presented my conference paper The Off-Topic Memento Toolkit where I talk about a software package that can detect off-topic mementos in a web archive collection.
The Many Shapes of Archive-It
I presented my conference paper The Many Shapes of Archive-It where I talk about the structural features that can be used to understand web archive collections.
A Preview of MementoEmbed: Embeddable Surrogates for Archived Web Pages
With the death of Storify, I’ve been examining alternatives for summarizing web archive collections. Key to these summaries are surrogates. I have discovered that there exist services that provide users with embeds. These embeds allow an author to insert a surrogate into the H...
How well are the National Guideline Clearinghouse and the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse Archived?
There are two US government websites in danger, the National Guideline Clearinghouse (https://www.guideline.gov) and the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (https://qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov). Both store medical guidelines. Both will “not be available after July 16, 2018”....
Extracting Metadata from Archive-It Collections with Archive-It Utilities
At iPres 2018, I will be presenting “The Many Shapes of Archive-It”, a paper that focuses on some structural features inherent in Archive-It collections. The paper is now available as a preprint on arXiv. As part of the data gathering for “The Many Shapes of Archive-It”, and a...
The Off-Topic Memento Toolkit
Inspired by AlNoamany’s work from “Detecting off-topic pages within TimeMaps in Web archives” I am pleased to announce an alpha release of the Off-Topic Memento Toolkit (OTMT). The results of testing with this software will be presented at iPres 2018 and those results are now ...
