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...
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...
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.
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...
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 ...
The Storify platform will be discontinued in May 2018. Here I outline some options for those trying to preserve their work before it disappears.
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...
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.
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.
I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to present Yasmin AlNoamany’s work at Web Science 2017. Dr. Nelson offers an excellent class on Web Science, but it has been years since I had taken it and I still was uncertain about the current state of the art. Web Science 2017...
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