On Friday, Twitter suspended Donald Trump’s account due to concerns that his current and future tweets might continue to foment violence in the United States. Hayes Brown from MSNBC and Marshall Cohen from CNN echoed a concern I had when developing MementoEmbed: what happens t...
Tools like Archive-It and Webrecorder exist that allow users to create web archive collections easily. These collections contain thousands of seeds, and every capture of a seed results in a new memento. If a potential user wants to review a collection to understand it, they ma...
For traditional library collections, archivists can select a representative sample from a collection and display it in a featured physical or digital library space. Web archive collections may consist of thousands of archived pages, or mementos. How should an archivist display...
Tools such as Google News and Flipboard exist to convey daily news, but what about the past? In this paper, we describe how to combine several existing tools with web archive holdings to perform news analysis and visualization of the “biggest story” for a given date. StoryGrap...
by Shawn M. Jones, Alexander C. Nwala, Martin Klein, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson
Tools such as Google News and Flipboard exist to convey daily news, but what about the past? In this paper, we describe how to combine several existing tools with web archive holdings to perform news analysis and visualization of the “biggest story” for a given date. StoryGrap...
by Shawn M. Jones, Martin Klein, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson
For traditional library collections, archivists can select a representative sample from a collection and display it in a featured physical or digital library space. Web archive collections may consist of thousands of archived pages, or mementos. How should an archivist display...
On July 25, more than 1,300 registrants around the world opened their laptops and started attending SIGIR 2020. Via Zoom and the streaming capabilities of the conference web portal, we were able to watch speakers, raise hands, ask questions, and chat with attendees. SIGIR 202...
Links on the web break all the time. We frequently experience the infamous “404 – Page not found” message, also known as “a broken link” or “link rot.” Sometimes we follow a link and discover that the linked page has significantly changed and its content no longer represents w...
In Part 1, we introduced Hypercane, a tool for automatically sampling mementos from web archive collections. Web archive collections consist of thousands of documents, and humans need tools to intelligently select mementos for a given purpose. Hypercane’s goal is to supply us ...
In Part 1 of this series of blog posts, I introduced Hypercane, a tool for automatically sampling mementos from web archive collections. If a human wishes to create a sample of documents from a web archive collection, they are confronted with thousands of documents from which ...