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2017-11-20: Dodging the Memory Hole 2017 Trip Report
At the Internet Archive, it was rainy in San Francisco, but that did not deter those of us attending Dodging the Memory Hole 2017. We engaged in discussions about a very important topic: the...
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2017-11-22: Deploying the Memento-Damage Service
Many web services such as archive.is, Archive-It, Internet Archive, and UK Web Archive have provided archived web pages or mementos for us to use. Nowadays, the web archivists have shifted their focus...
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2017-12-03: Introducing Docker - Application Containerization & Service...
For the last few years, Docker, the application containerization technology, has been gaining a lot of attraction from the DevOps community and lately it has made its way to the academia and research...
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2017-12-11: Difficulties in timestamping archived web pages
Figure 1: A web page from nasa.gov is archived by Michael's Evil Wayback in July 2017.Figure 2: When visiting the same archived page in October 2017, we found that the content of the page has been...
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2017-12-14: Storify Will Be Gone Soon, So How Do We Preserve The Stories?
Popular Storytelling service, Storify, will be shut down on May 16, 2018. Storify has been used by journalists and researchers to create stories about events and topics of interest. It has a wonderful...
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2017-12-19: CNI Fall 2017 Trip Report
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Fall 2017 Membership Meeting was held in Washington, DC on December 11-12, 2017. University Librarian George Fowler and I represented ODU, which was...
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2017-12-31: ACM Workshop on Reproducibility in Publication
On December 7 and 8 I attend the ACM Workshop on Reproducibility in Publication in NYC as part of my role as a member of the ACM Publications Board and co-chair (with Alex Wade) of the Digital Library...
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2018-01-02: Link to Web Archives, not Search Engine Caches
Fig.1 Link TheFoundingSon Web CacheFig.2 TheFoundingSon Archived PostIn a recent article in Wired, "Yup, the Russian propagandists were blogging lies on Medium too,"Matt Burgess makes reference to...
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2017-12-31: Digital Blackness in the Archive - DocNow Symposium Trip Report
Digital Blackness in the Archive was such a beautiful event. Thank you. #BlackDigArchivepic.twitter.com/SpoWYWDOhL— DocumentingTheNow (@documentnow) December 15, 2017From December 11-12, 2017, I...
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2018-01-06: Two WSDL Classes Offered for Spring 2018
Two Web Science & Digital Library (WS-DL) courses will be offered in Spring 2018: CS 725/825 "Information Visualization", Wednesdays 9:30-12:15 pm (CRNs 24134 & 24135) offered by Dr. Michele C....
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Great writeup of #jcdl2017 in Toronto by @acnwala, featuring @oducs@WebSciDL (2 faculty, 2 alums, 3 grad students) https://t.co/wSirB8Jhq9pic.twitter.com/HM0XePiz8u— ODU Computer Science (@oducs) July...
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2018-01-08: Introducing Reconstructive - An Archival Replay ServiceWorker Module
Web pages are generally composed of many resource such as images, style sheets, JavaScript, fonts, iframe widgets, and other embedded media. These embedded resources can be referenced in many ways...
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2018-02-27: Summary of Gathering Alumni Information from a Web Social Network
While researching my dissertation topic (slides 2--28) on social media profile discovery, I encountered a related paper titled Gathering Alumni Information from a Web Social Network written by Gabriel...
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2018-03-04: Installing Stanford CoreNLP in a Docker Container
Fig. 1: Example of Text Labeled with the CoreNLP Part-of-Speech, Named-Entity Recognizer and Dependency Annotators.The Stanford CoreNLP suite provides a wide range of important natural language...
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2018-03-12: NEH ODH Project Directors' Meeting
Michael and I attended the NEH Office of Digital Humanities (ODH)Project Directors' Meeting and the "ODH at Ten" celebration (#ODHatTen) on February 9 in DC. We were invited because of our recent NEH...
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2018-03-14: Twitter Follower Count History via the Internet Archive
The USA Gymnastics team shows significant growth during the years the Olympics are held.Due to Twitter's API, we have limited ability to collect historical data for a user's followers. The information...
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2018-03-15: Paywalls in the Internet Archive
Paywall page from The AdvertisterPaywalls have become increasingly notable in the Internet Archive over the past few years. In our recent investigation into news similarity for U.S. news outlets, we...
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2018-03-21: Cookies Are Why Your Archived Twitter Page Is Not in English
pre { overflow: auto; } Fig. 1 - Barack Obama's Twitter page in UrduThe ODU WSDL lab has sporadically encountered archived Twitter pages for which the default HTML language setting was expected to be...
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2018-04-09: Trip Report for the National Forum on Ethics and Archiving the...
On March 23-24, 2018 I attended the National Forum on Ethics and Archiving the Web (EAW), hosted at the New Museum and organized by Rhizome and the members of the Documenting the Now project. The...
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2018-04-13: Web Archives are Used for Link Stability, Censorship Avoidance,...
ISIS members immolating captured Jordanian pilotWeb archives have been used for purposes other than digital preservation and browsing historical data. These purposes can be divided into three...
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