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2014-07-10: Federal Cloud Computing Summit
As mention in my previous post, I attended the Federal Cloud Computing Summit on July 8th and 9th at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C. I helped the host organization, the Advanced...
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2014-07-14: The Archival Acid Test: Evaluating Archive Performance on...
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2014-07-14: "Refresh" For Zombies, Time Jumps
We've blogged before about "zombies", or archived pages that reach out to the live web for images, ads, movies, etc. You can also describe it as the live web "leaking" into the archive, but we prefer...
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2014-07-22: "Archive What I See Now" Project Funded by NEH Office of Digital...
We are grateful for the continued support of the National Endowment for the Humanities and their Office of Digital Humanities for our "Archive What I See Now" project.In 2013, we received support for 1...
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2014-07-25: Digital Preservation 2014 Trip Report
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2014-08-22: One WS-DL Class Offered for Fall 2014
This fall, only one WS-DL class will be offered:CS 495/595 Introduction to Web Science, Thursdays, 4:20-7:00, r. 2120This class approaches the Web as a phenomena to be studied in its own right. In...
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2014-08-26: Memento 101 -- An Overview of Memento in 101 Slides
In preparation for the upcoming "Tools and Techniques for Revisiting Online Scholarly Content" tutorial at JCDL 2014, Herbert and I have revamped the canonical slide deck for Memento, and have called...
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2014-08-28: InfoVis 2013 Class Projects
(Note: This is continuing a series of posts about visualizations created either by students in our research group or in our classes.)I've been teaching the graduate Information Visualization course...
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2014-09-02: WARCMerge: Merging Multiple WARC files into a single WARC file
WARCMerge is the name given to a new tool for organizing WARC files. The name describes it -- merging multiple WARC files into a single one. In web archiving, WARC files can be generated by well-known...
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2014-09-09: DL2014 Doctoral Consortium
After exploring London on Sunday, I attended the first DL2014 session: the Doctoral Consortium. Held in the College Building at the City University London, the Doctoral Consortium offered early-career...
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2014-09-16: A long and tortuous trail to a PhD
(or how I learned to embrace the new)I am reaching the end of this part of my professional, academic, and personal life. It is time to reflect and consider how I got here.The trail ahead.When I...
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2014-09-17: NEH ODH Project Directors' Meeting
On Monday (Sep 15), Michael and I attended the NEH Office of Digital Humanities Project Directors' Meeting at their new location in the Constitution Center in Washington, DC. We were invited based on...
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2014-09-18: Digital Libraries 2014 (DL2014) Trip Report
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2014-09-18: A tale of two questions
(with apologies to Charles Dickens, Robert Frost, and Dr. Seuss)"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of...
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2014-09-25: Improving Accessibility of Archived Raster Dictionaries of...
The Internet Archive (IA) and Open Library offer over 6 million fully accessible public domain eBooks. I searched for the term "dictionary" while I was casually browsing the scanned book collection to...
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2014-10-03: Integrating the Live and Archived Web Viewing Experience with Mink
The goal of the Memento project is to provide a tighter integration between the past and current web. There are a number of clients now that provide this functionality, but they remain silent about...
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2014-10-07: FluNet Visualization
(Note: This wraps up the current series of posts about visualizations created either by students in our research group or in our classes. I'll post more after the Spring 2015 offering of the...
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2014-10-16: Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) 2014
Photo credit to my friend Mona El Mahdy I was thrilled and humbled for the second time to attend Grace Hopper Celebration of women in computing (GHC) 2014, the world’s largest gathering for...
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2014-10-27: 404/File Not Found: Link Rot, Legal Citation and Projects to...
Herbert and I attended the "404/File Not Found: Link Rot, Legal Citation and Projects to Preserve Precedent" at the Georgetown Law Library on Friday, October 24, 2014. Although the origins for this...
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2014-11-09: Four WS-DL Classes for Spring 2015
We're excited to announce that four Web Science & Digital Library (WS-DL) courses will be offered in Spring 2015:CS 418 "Web Programming", MW 3-4:15pm (CRN 24656), will be offered by Mat Kelly....
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