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2013-04-08: Grad Cohort Workshop (CRA-W) 2013
On April 5-6, I was pleased to have the opportunity to meet and network with many successful senior women as well as graduate students from other universities in CRA-W Graduate Cohort, which was held...
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2013-04-19: Carbon Dating the Web
In the course of our research we often needed to determine when a certain web resource was created. In numerous cases, this question is fairly straightforward to answer by examining the resource...
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From April 22--26, Michael Nelson and I attended International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) General Assembly 2013 that was hosted by the National and University Library of Slovenia in...
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2013-05-07: Who Is Archiving Your Tweets?
Who is archiving your tweets?You're probably thinking "the Library of Congress". And you're right, since 2010 they have been (see the announcements from Twitter and LC). But LC is currently providing...
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2013-05-09: HTTP Mailbox - Asynchronous RESTful Communication
We often encounter web services that take a very long time to respond to our HTTP requests. In the case of an eventual network failure, we are forced to issue the same HTTP request again. We frequently...
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2013-05-13: Temporal Web Workshop 2013 Trip Report
On May 13, Hany SalahEldeen and I attended the third Temporal Web Analytic Workshop, collocated with WWW 2013 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.Marc Spaniol, from Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany,...
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2013-05-21: An Update About Archiving Tweets
Today I encountered this article about a UK driver bragging on Twitter about hitting a cyclist. Rather than extend an already lengthy post about archiving tweets from two weeks ago, this example will...
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2013-05-25: Game Walkthroughs As A Metaphor for Web Preservation
Do you remember playing the Atari 400/800 game "Star Raiders"? Probably not, but for me it pretty much defined my existence in middle school: the obvious Star Wars inspiration, the stereo sound, the...
View Article2013-05-29 mcurl - Command Line Memento Client
The Memento protocol works in two directions:Server implementation: the server complies with Memento protocol, so it can read the "Accept-Datetime" header, do the content-negotiation in datetime...
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2013-05-30: World Wide Web Conference WWW2013 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Trip...
After a long overnight flight, I landed in the sunny and beautiful Rio de Janeiro. A couple of months earlier, my paper entitled: “Carbon Dating the Web: Estimating the Age of Web Resources” was...
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2013-06-18: NTRS, Memento, and Handles
In a previous post I covered the shut down of the NASA Technical Report Server, which has since come back online in a reduced capacity. In this post we examine some of the peculiarities of the current...
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2013-07-09: Archive.is Supports Memento
There's a lot to like about Archive.is, a recent entry in the page-at-a-time personal web archiving space: the simple search/upload interface, the bookmarklet for easily pushing pages into the archive...
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2013-07-10: WARCreate and WAIL: WARC, Wayback and Heritrix Made Easy
As the Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group, we regularly interact with end users as well as developers that are interested in digital preservation. One of our goals is to assist in making...
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2013-07-15: Wayback Machine Upgrades Memento Support
Just over a week ago, the Internet Archive upgraded their support for Memento in the Wayback Machine. The Wayback Machine has had native Memento support for about 2.5 years, but they've just recently...
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2013-07-15: Temporal Intention Relevancy Model (TIRM) Data Set
In the third anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, president Barack Obama held a press conference and discussed the need to keep helping the Haitian community and to invest more in rebuilding the...
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2013-07-22: JCDL 2013 Doctoral Consortium
The JCDL 2013Doctoral Consortium is a workshop for Ph.D. students from all over the world who are in the early phases of their dissertation work. Students present their thesis and research plan and a...
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2013-07-26: ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2013
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { }The Old Dominion UniversityWeb Science and Digital Libraries (WSDL) research group was well-represented at the JCDL 2013 conference – Digital Libraries at the...
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2012-07-25: Digital Preservation 2013 Trip Report
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2013-07-26: Web Archiving and Digital Libraries workshop - WADL 2013 Trip Report
On July 25th and 26th 2013, the WS-DL group attended the Web Archiving and Digital Libraries Workshop that was collocated with JCDL 2013 at Indianapolis, IN.Ed Fox, from Virginia Tech, opened the...
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2013-08-23: Archive-It Supports Memento
Earlier this week, Archive-It (the subscription-based collection development service from the Internet Archive) implemented Memento support for their collections, including the newly established "all"...
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