Since 2013, I have been a principal contributor to the Memento MediaWiki Extension. We recently released version 2.2.0 to support MediaWiki versions of 1.31.1 and greater. During the extension’s development, I have detailed some of its concepts on this blog, I have presented i...
On Tuesday, we released our latest pre-print "Social Cards Probably Provide Better Understanding of Web Archive Collections". My work builds on AlNoamany’s work of using social media storytelling to provide a visualization that summarizes web archive collections. In previous b...
Google+ will be shut down on April 2, 2019. In this blog post I cover how much of Google+ is archived and how to archive its pages.
by Shawn M. Jones, Michelle C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson
Web archive collections are created with a particular purpose in mind. A curator selects seeds, or original resources, which are then captured by an archiving system and stored as archived web pages, or mementos. The systems that build web archive collections are often configu...
by Shawn M. Jones, Alexander Nwala, Michelle C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson
Web archives, a key area of digital preservation, meet the needs of journalists, social scientists, historians, and government orga- nizations. The use cases for these groups often require that they guide the archiving process themselves, selecting their own original resources...
I presented my conference paper The Off-Topic Memento Toolkit where I talk about a software package that can detect off-topic mementos in a web archive collection.
I presented my conference paper The Many Shapes of Archive-It where I talk about the structural features that can be used to understand web archive collections.
With the death of Storify, I’ve been examining alternatives for summarizing web archive collections. Key to these summaries are surrogates. I have discovered that there exist services that provide users with embeds. These embeds allow an author to insert a surrogate into the H...
There are two US government websites in danger, the National Guideline Clearinghouse (https://www.guideline.gov) and the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (https://qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov). Both store medical guidelines. Both will “not be available after July 16, 2018”....
At iPres 2018, I will be presenting “The Many Shapes of Archive-It”, a paper that focuses on some structural features inherent in Archive-It collections. The paper is now available as a preprint on arXiv. As part of the data gathering for “The Many Shapes of Archive-It”, and a...