by Shawn M. Jones, Valentina Neblitt-Jones, Michele C. Weigle, Martin Klein, Michael L. Nelson
In the Dark and Stormy Archives (DSA) project, we focus on storytelling techniques to summarize collections of archived web pages. Since collections can have hundreds or even thousands of seeds (initial URLs) and each seed can be recrawled many times, with each version separat...
by Shawn M. Jones, Michele C. Weigle, Martin Klein, Michael L. Nelson
Humans can choose individual documents from a web archive collection, but doing so is difficult if they are unfamiliar with the collection. The issue is scale. Most web archive collections consist of thousands of documents. Hypercane is a tool that automates the selection of d...
by Shawn M. Jones, Valentina Neblitt-Jones, Michele C. Weigle, Martin Klein, and Michael L. Nelson
Humans can choose individual documents from a web archive collection, but doing so is difficult if they are unfamiliar with the collection. The issue is scale. Most web archive collections consist of thousands of documents. Hypercane is a tool that automates the selection of d...
by Shawn M. Jones, Martin Klein, Herbert Van de Sompel, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle
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, Martin Klein, Michael L. Nelson
To allow previewing a web page, social media platforms have developed social cards: visualizations consisting of vital information about the underlying resource. At a minimum, social cards often include features such as the web resource’s title, text summary, striking image, a...
by Shawn M. Jones, Martin Klein, and Herbert Van de Sompel
Links to web resources frequently break, and linked content can change at unpredictable rates. These dynamics of the Web are detrimental when references to web resources provide evidence or supporting information. In this paper, we highlight the significance of reference rot, ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
by Shawn M. Jones, Herbert Van de Sompel, Harihar Shankar, Martin Klein, Richard Tobin, and Claire Grover
Increasingly, scholarly articles contain URI references to “web at large” resources including project web sites, scholarly wikis, ontologies, online debates, presentations, blogs, and videos. Authors reference such resources to provide essential context for the research they r...
by Herbert Van de Sompel, Martin Klein, Shawn M. Jones
We quantify the extent to which references to papers in scholarly literature use persistent HTTP URIs that leverage the Digital Object Identifier infrastructure. We find a significant number of references that do not, speculate why authors would use brittle URIs when persisten...
by Shawn M. Jones, Harihar Shankar
Text extraction from web pages has many applications, including web crawling optimization and document clustering. Though much has been written about the acquisition of content from live web pages, content acquisition of archived web pages, known as mementos, remains a relativ...
by Shawn M. Jones, Michael L. Nelson
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 readers are behind in their viewing they run the risk of encountering “spoilers” ...
by Shawn M. Jones
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 readers are behind in their viewing they run the risk of encountering spoilers” –...
by Shawn M. Jones, Michael L. Nelson, Harihar Shankar, Herbert Van de Sompel
We have implemented the Memento MediaWiki Extension Version 2.0, which brings the Memento Protocol to MediaWiki, used by Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation. Test results show that the extension has a negligible impact on performance. Two 302 status code datetime negotiatio...