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2018-04-23: "Grampa, what's a deleted tweet?"
Took screen shot, just in case, but I fear #Breitbart is well beyond the point of decency and shame that they would delete this insane tweet. #INTL4335#Islamophobiapic.twitter.com/ipo1MhDmNI— Cas Mudde...
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2018-04-24: Let's Get Visual and Examine Web Page Surrogates
Why visualize individual web pages? A variety of visualizations of individual web pages exist, but why do we need them when we can just choose a URI from a list and put it in our web browser? URIs are...
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2018-04-24: Why we need multiple web archives: the case of blog.reidreport.com
This story started in December, 2017 with Joy-Ann Reid (of MSNBC) apologizing for "insensitive LGBT blog posts" that she wrote on her blog many years ago when she was a morning radio talk show host in...
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2018-04-30: A High Fidelity MS Thesis, To Relive The Web: A Framework For The...
It is hard to believe that the time has come for me to write a wrap up blog about the adventure that was my Masters Degree and the thesis that got me to this point. If you follow this blog with any...
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2018-05-04: An exploration of URL diversity measures
Fig. 1: Animal portraits by Morten KoldbyRecently, as part of a research effort to describe a collections of URLs, I was faced with the problem of identifying a quantitative measure that indicates how...
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2018-05-15: Archives Unleashed: Toronto Datathon Trip Report
The Archives Unleashed team (pictured below) hosted a two-day datathon, April 26-27, 2018, at the University of Toronto’s Robarts Library. This time around, Shawn Jones and I were selected to represent...
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2018-06-08: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2018 Trip Report
The gathering place at the Cattle Raisers Museum, Fort Worth, Texas This year's 18th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Libraries (JCDL 2018) took place at the University of North Texas...
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2018-06-08: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) Doctoral Consortium...
On June 3, 2018, PhD students arrived in Fort Worth, Texas to attend the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Doctoral Consortium. This is a pre-conference event associated with the ACM and IEEE-CS...
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2018-06-11: Web Archive and Digital Libraries (WADL) Workshop Trip Report...
Mat Kelly reports on the Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) Workshop 2018 that occurred in Fort Worth, Texas....
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2018-06-11: Knowledge Discovery From Digital Libraries (KDDL) Workshop Trip...
Fort Worth Museum of Science & History 9/11 TributeThe theme of the workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Digital Libraries (KDDL) was to uncover hidden relationships between data with techniques...
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2018-06-27: InfoVis Spring 2017 Class Projects
This may sound familiar, but yet again I'm way behind in posting about my previous offerings of CS 725/825 Information Visualization.(Previous semester highlights posts: Spring 2016, Spring 2015,...
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2018-07-02: The Off-Topic Memento Toolkit
Inspired by AlNoamany's work from "Detecting off-topic pages within TimeMaps in Web archives" I am pleased to announce an alpha release of the Off-Topic Memento Toolkit (OTMT). The results of testing...
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2018-07-03: Extracting Metadata from Archive-It Collections with Archive-It...
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...
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2018-07-11: InfoVis Fall 2017 Class Projects
(Previous semester highlights posts: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring/Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011)Here are a few projects that I'd like to highlight from Fall 2017. (All class projects...
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2018-07-15: How well are the National Guideline Clearinghouse and the...
On July 13, I saw this on Twitter:On Monday, doctors, nurses and researchers will lose access to a trove of medical data, as the Trump Administration shuts down the National Guidelines Clearinghouse....
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2018-07-18: Why We Need Private Web Archives: Almost Two-Thirds of Web...
Google.com mementos from May 8th 1999 on the Internet ArchiveIn terms of the ability to be archived in public web archives, web pages fall into one of two categories: publicly archivable, or not...
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2018-07-18: HyperText and Social Media (HT) Trip Report
Leaping Tiger statue next to the College of Arts at Towson UniversityFrom July 9 - 12, the 2018 ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT) took place at the College of Arts at Towson University...
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2018-07-22: Tic-Tac-Toe and Magic Square Made Me a Problem Solver and Programmer
"How did you learn programming?", a student asked me in a recent summer camp. Dr. Yaohang Li organized the Machine Learning and Data Science Summer Camp for High School students of the Hampton Roads...
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2018-08-01: A Preview of MementoEmbed: Embeddable Surrogates for Archived Web...
As commonly seen on Facebook and Twitter, the social card is a type of surrogate that provides clues as to what is behind a URI. In this case, the URI is from Google and the social card makes it clear...
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2018-08-25: Four WS-DL Classes Offered for Fall 2018
Four WS-DL classes are offered for Fall 2018: CS 418/518 Web Programming is taught by Dr. Justin Brunelle, Tuesdays 4:20-7pm. This class teaches LAMP, the original web programming stack. Even if you...
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