Yasmin AlNoamany experimented with summarizing a web collection by choosing a small number of exemplars and then visualizing them with social media storytelling. This is in contrast to approaches that try to account for all members of the collection. When I took over the Dark ...
My research focuses on summarizing existing web archive collections through social media storytelling. For this effort, we developed Raintale to tell the stories produced by a selection of mementos. Collections exist at various web archives, like Archive-It and the UK Web Arch...
Students, professors, industry experts, and others came to Beijing to attend the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM). This was the first time CIKM had accepted a long paper from the Old Dominion University Web Science and Digital Li...
Used by a variety of researchers, web archive collections have become invaluable sources of evidence. If a researcher is presented with a web archive collection that they did not create, how do they know what is inside so that they can use it for their own research? Search eng...
by Shawn M. Jones, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson
Used by a variety of researchers, web archive collections have become invaluable sources of evidence. If a researcher is presented with a web archive collection that they did not create, how do they know what is inside so that they can use it for their own research? Search eng...
On October 28, 2019, web archiving experts met with librarians and archivists at the George Washington University in Washington, DC. As part of the Continuing Education to Advance Web Archiving (CEDWARC) effort, we covered several different modules related to tools and technol...
This CEDWARC presentation highlights AlNoamany’s Algorithm and other research done to apply social media storytelling techniques to web archives, including the MementoEmbed and Raintale projects.
One of the most challenging problems to solve while conducting user studies is recruiting participants. Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MT) solves this problem by providing a marketplace where participants can earn money by completing studies for researchers. This blog post summariz...
With web archives, journalists find evidence and information to back up their stories, historians store information for later users, and social scientists can study the actions of humans during specific time periods. These different groups gain value not only from creating their ...
Raintale is the latest entry in the Dark and Stormy Archives project. Our goal is to provide research studies and tools for combining web archives and social media storytelling. Raintale provides the storytelling capability. It has been designed to visualize a small number of ...