The Off-Topic Memento Toolkit

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 ...

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Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) Doctoral Consortium Trip Report

Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) Doctoral Consortium Trip Report

On June 3, 2018, PhD students arrived in Fort Worth, Texas to attend the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Doctoral Consortium. This is a pre-conference event associated with the ACM and IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. This event gives PhD students a forum i...

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Improving Collection Understanding in Web Archives

Improving Collection Understanding in Web Archives

Here I presented work done on my dissertation so far. The doctoral consortium allows me to acquire feedback from the community before I submit my dissertation proposal to the university. Here I propose using a visualization of representative mementos to aide in collection unde...

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Let's Get Visual and Examine Web Page Surrogates

Let's Get Visual and Examine Web Page Surrogates

Web resources can be represented in a variety of ways. In this blog post I go over work that has been done to create surrogates, or representations of web resources, for use on social media, search engine results, and more.

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Avoiding spoilers: wiki time travel with Sheldon Cooper

Avoiding spoilers: wiki time travel with Sheldon Cooper

by Shawn M. Jones, Michael L. Nelson, and Herbert Van de Sompel

A variety of fan-based wikis about episodic fiction (e.g., television shows, novels, movies) exist on the World Wide Web. These wikis provide a wealth of information about complex stories, but if fans are behind in their viewing they run the risk of encountering “spoilers”—inf...

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Dodging the Memory Hole 2017 Trip Report

Dodging the Memory Hole 2017 Trip Report

We engaged in discussions about a very important topic: the preservation of online news content. Brewster Kahle is well known in digital preservation and especially web archiving circles. I tried to cover elements of all presentations while live tweeting during the event, and ...

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Storify Will Be Gone Soon, So How Do We Preserve The Stories?

Storify Will Be Gone Soon, So How Do We Preserve The Stories?

The Storify platform will be discontinued in May 2018. Here I outline some options for those trying to preserve their work before it disappears.

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Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting 2017

Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting 2017

The crowds descended upon Arlington, Virginia for the 80th annual meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology. I attended this meeting to learn more about ASIS&T, including its special interest groups. Also attending with me was former ODU Computer Sc...

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Where Can We Post Stories Summarizing Web Archive Collections

Where Can We Post Stories Summarizing Web Archive Collections

This is a presentation of social media storytelling tools that were covered in a blog post written for the Web Science and Digital Libraries research group.

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Where Can We Post Stories Summarizing Web Archive Collections?

Where Can We Post Stories Summarizing Web Archive Collections?

This post is a re-examination of the landscape since AlNoamany’s dissertation to see if there are tools other than Storify that the Dark and Stormy Archives project can use. It covers the tools living in the spaces of content curation, storytelling, and social media.

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