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2016-12-20: Archiving Pages with Embedded Tweets
I'm from Louisiana and used Archive-It to build a collection of webpages about the September flood there (https://www.archive-it.org/collections/7760/).One of the pages I came across, Hundreds of...
View Article2017-01-07: Two WS-DL Classes Offered for Spring 2017
"One of the primary reasons I got hired was because of the [@WebSciDL] courses I took at ODU." -@prasanna_sajjan (@ODUnow, @oducs, MS '16) pic.twitter.com/hGJtRIQ8JY— ODU Computer Science (@oducs)...
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2017-01-08: Review of WS-DL's 2016
The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group had a productive 2016, with two Ph.D. and one M.S. students graduating, one large research grant awarded ($830k), 16 publications, and 15 trips to...
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2017-01-15: Summary of "Trusty URIs: Verifiable, Immutable, and Permanent...
Based on the paper:Kuhn, T., Dumontier, M.: Trusty URIs: Verifiable, immutable, and permanent digital artifacts for linked data. Proceedings of European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) pp. 395–410...
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2017-01-20: CNN.com has been unarchivable since November 1st, 2016
CNN.com has been unarchivable since 2016-11-01T15:01:31, at least by the common web archiving systems employed by the Internet Archive, archive.is, and webcitation.org. The last known correctly...
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2017-01-23: Finding URLs on Twitter - A simple recommendation
A prompt from Twitter indicating no search resultsAs part of a research experiment, I had the need to find URLs embedded in tweets from Twitter's web search service. Most of the URLs where much older...
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2017-02-13: Electric WAILs and Ham
Mat Kelly recently posted Lipstick or Ham: Next Steps For WAIL in which he spoke about the past, present, and potential future for WAIL. Web Archiving Integration Layer (WAIL) is a tool that seeks to...
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2017-02-22: Archive Now (archivenow): A Python Library to Integrate On-Demand...
Examples: Archive Now (archivenow) CLIA small part of my research is to ensure that certain web pages are preserved in public web archives to hopefully be available and retrievable whenever needed at...
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2017-03-02: National Symposium on Web Archiving Interoperability Trip Report
The National Symposium on Web Archiving Interoperability was held February 21-22, 2017 at The Internet Archive in San Francisco, CA. The symposium was held as part of the IMLS-funded"WASAPI" project,...
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2017-03-07: Archives Unleashed 3.0: Web Archive Datathon Trip Report
Archive Unleashed 3.0 took place in the Internet Archive, San Francisco, CA. The workshop was two days long, February 23-24, 2017. This workshop took place in conjunction with a National Web Symposium,...
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2017-03-09: A State Of Replay or Location, Location, Location
We have written blog posts about the time travelingzombie apocalypse in web archives and how the lack of client-side JavaScript execution at preservation time prevented the SOPA protest of certain...
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2017-03-20: A survey of 5 boilerplate removal methods
Fig. 1: Boilerplate removal result for BeautifulSoup's get_text() method for a news website. Extracted text includes extraneous text (Junk text), HTML, Javascript, comments, and CSS text.Fig. 2:...
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2017-03-24: The Impact of URI Canonicalization on Memento Count
Mat reports that relying solely on a Memento TimeMap to evaluate how well a URI is archived is not a sufficient method.                           .uri {font-size: 10px; font-style: teletext;...
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2017-04-17: CNI Spring 2017 Trip Report
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Spring 2017 Membership Meeting was held April 3-4, 2017 in Albuquerque, NM. As before, the presentations were of very high quality but the eight-way (!)...
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2017-04-17: Personal Digital Archiving 2017
.flex-container { display: flex; flex-flow: row; justify-content: space-between; } .pertyPhoto { width: 200px; border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px; } .fr { float: right; } .card { background: #fff;...
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2017-04-18: Local Memory Project - going global
Screenshots of world local newspapers from the Local Memory Project's local news repository. Top: newspapers from Iraq, Nigeria, and France. Bottom: Chile, US (Alaska), and Australia.Soon after the...
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2017-04-20: Trusted Timestamping of Mementos
The Memento Protocol provides a Memento-Datetime header indicating at what datetime a memento was captured by a given web archive. In most cases, this metadata sufficiently informs the user of when the...
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2017-04-23: Remembering Professor Hussein Abdel-Wahab
Hussein (blue shirt) at the post-defense feast for Dr. SalahEldeen. As we head into exam week, I can't help but reflect that this is the first exam week at ODU since 1980 that does not involve...
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2017-04-24: Pushing Boundaries
Since the advent of the web, more elements of scholarly communication are occurring online. A world that once consisted mostly of conference proceedings, books, and journal articles now includes blog...
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2017-04-26: Discovering Scholars Everywhere They Tread
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...
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