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...
A presentation of the work I had done with the Research Library Prototyping Team at Los Alamos National Laboratory given to the local chapter of the Special Libraries Association in New Mexico.
by Herbert Van de Sompel, Michael L. Nelson, Lyudmila Balakireva, Martin Klein, Shawn M. Jones, and Harihar Shankar
Most web archives augment Mementos when presenting them to the user, often for usability or legal purposes. Research efforts and software projects need access the original captured “raw” Mementos. So that users and software do not need to resort to archive-specific solutions, ...
Though scholars write articles and papers, they also post a lot of content on the web. Datasets, blog posts (like this one), presentations, and more are posted by scholars as part of scholarly communications. What if we could aggregate the content by scholar, instead of by web...
Given a scholar’s identity on a portal, how can we crawl the scholarly portal to ensure that we capture all of their content? In this post, I evaluate a number of scholarly portals to find their boundaries, the URI patterns that allow us to capture the content of a user.
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