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The Dsa Toolkit Shines Light Into Dark And Stormy Archives, Shawn Morgan Jones, Himarsha R. Jayanetti, Alex Osborne, Paul Koerbin, Klein Martin, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson Jan 2022

The Dsa Toolkit Shines Light Into Dark And Stormy Archives, Shawn Morgan Jones, Himarsha R. Jayanetti, Alex Osborne, Paul Koerbin, Klein Martin, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Web archive collections are created with a particular purpose in mind. A curator selects seeds, or original resources, which are then captured by an archiving system and stored as archived web pages, or mementos. The systems that build web archive collections are often configured to revisit the same original resource multiple times. This is incredibly useful for understanding an unfolding news story or the evolution of an organization. Unfortunately, over time, some of these original resources can go off-topic and no longer suit the purpose for which the collection was originally created. They can go off-topic due to web site …


Web Archives At The Nexus Of Good Fakes And Flawed Originals, Michael L. Nelson Jan 2019

Web Archives At The Nexus Of Good Fakes And Flawed Originals, Michael L. Nelson

Computer Science Faculty Publications

[Summary] The authenticity, integrity, and provenance of resources we encounter on the web are increasingly in question. While many people are inured to the possibility of altered images, the easy accessibility of powerful software tools that synthesize audio and video will unleash a torrent of convincing “deepfakes” into our social discourse. Archives will no longer be monopolized by a countable number of institutions such as governments and publishers, but will become a competitive space filled with social engineers, propagandists, conspiracy theorists, and aspiring Hollywood directors. While the historical record has never been singular nor unmalleable, current technologies empower an unprecedented …


It Is Hard To Compute Fixity On Archived Web Pages, Mohamed Aturban, Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle Jan 2018

It Is Hard To Compute Fixity On Archived Web Pages, Mohamed Aturban, Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle

Computer Science Faculty Publications

[Introduction] Checking fixity in web archives is performed to ensure archived resources, or mementos (denoted by URI-M) have remained unaltered since when they were captured. The final report of the PREMIS Working Group [2] defines information used for fixity as "information used to verify whether an object has been altered in an undocumented or unauthorized way." The common technique for checking fixity is to generate a current hash value (i.e., a message digest or a checksum) for a file using a cryptographic hash function (e.g., SHA-256) and compare it to the hash value generated originally. If they have different hash …


Using Web Archives To Enrich The Live Web Experience Through Storytelling, Yasmin Alnoamany Jul 2016

Using Web Archives To Enrich The Live Web Experience Through Storytelling, Yasmin Alnoamany

Computer Science Theses & Dissertations

Much of our cultural discourse occurs primarily on the Web. Thus, Web preservation is a fundamental precondition for multiple disciplines. Archiving Web pages into themed collections is a method for ensuring these resources are available for posterity. Services such as Archive-It exists to allow institutions to develop, curate, and preserve collections of Web resources. Understanding the contents and boundaries of these archived collections is a challenge for most people, resulting in the paradox of the larger the collection, the harder it is to understand. Meanwhile, as the sheer volume of data grows on the Web, "storytelling" is becoming a popular …


Combining Heritrix And Phantomjs For Better Crawling Of Pages With Javascript, Justin F. Brunelle, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson Apr 2016

Combining Heritrix And Phantomjs For Better Crawling Of Pages With Javascript, Justin F. Brunelle, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson

Computer Science Presentations

PDF of a powerpoint presentation from the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) 2016 Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland, April 11, 2016. Also available on Slideshare.


Storytelling For Summarizing Collections In Web Archives, Yasmin Alnoamany, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson Apr 2016

Storytelling For Summarizing Collections In Web Archives, Yasmin Alnoamany, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson

Computer Science Presentations

PDF of a powerpoint presentation from the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Spring 2016 Membership Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, April 5, 2016. Also available on Slideshare.


Why We Need Multiple Archives, Michael L. Nelson, Herbert Van De Sompel Apr 2016

Why We Need Multiple Archives, Michael L. Nelson, Herbert Van De Sompel

Computer Science Presentations

PDF of a powerpoint presentation from the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Spring 2016 Membership Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, April 3, 2016. Also available on Slideshare.


Combining Storytelling And Web Archives, Yasmin Alnoamany, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson Nov 2015

Combining Storytelling And Web Archives, Yasmin Alnoamany, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson

Computer Science Presentations

PDF of a powerpoint presentation from an Old Dominion University Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) Department Colloquium, November 13, 2015. Also available on Slideshare.


Tools Managing Seed Urls (Detecting Off-Topic Pages), Yasmin Alnoamany, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson Jun 2015

Tools Managing Seed Urls (Detecting Off-Topic Pages), Yasmin Alnoamany, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson

Computer Science Presentations

PDF of a powerpoint presentation from the Columbia University Web Archiving Collaboration: New Tools and Models Conference, in New York, New York, June 4-5, 2015. Also available on Slideshare.


Tools For Managing The Past Web, Michele C. Weigle Feb 2015

Tools For Managing The Past Web, Michele C. Weigle

Computer Science Presentations

PDF of a powerpoint presentation from an Old Dominion University - ECE Department Seminar, February 20, 2015. Also available on Slideshare.


Tools For Managing The Past Web, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson, Yasmin Alnoamany, Ahmed Alsum, Justin Brunelle, Mat Kelly, Hany Salaheldeen Nov 2014

Tools For Managing The Past Web, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson, Yasmin Alnoamany, Ahmed Alsum, Justin Brunelle, Mat Kelly, Hany Salaheldeen

Computer Science Presentations

PDF of a powerpoint presentation from the Archive-It Partners Meeting in Montgomery, Alabama, November 18, 2014. Also available on Slideshare.


"Archive What I See Now" Bringing Institutional Web Archiving Tools To The Individual Researcher, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson, Liza Potts Sep 2014

"Archive What I See Now" Bringing Institutional Web Archiving Tools To The Individual Researcher, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson, Liza Potts

Computer Science Presentations

PDF of a powerpoint presentation from the 2014 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) Project Directors' Meeting in Washington D. C., September 15, 2014. Also available form Slideshare.


When Should I Make Preservation Copies Of Myself?, Charles L. Cartledge, Michael L. Nelson Sep 2014

When Should I Make Preservation Copies Of Myself?, Charles L. Cartledge, Michael L. Nelson

Computer Science Presentations

PDF of a powerpoint presentation from the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2014 in London, United Kingdom, September 9, 2014. Also available on Slideshare.


Assessing The Quality Of Web Archives, Michael L. Nelson, Scott G. Ainsworth, Justin F. Brunelle, Mat Kelly, Hany Salaheldeen, Michele C. Weigle Jul 2014

Assessing The Quality Of Web Archives, Michael L. Nelson, Scott G. Ainsworth, Justin F. Brunelle, Mat Kelly, Hany Salaheldeen, Michele C. Weigle

Computer Science Presentations

PDF of a powerpoint presentation from the 2014 Digital Preservation Meeting, Washington D. C., July 22-23, 2014. Also available from Slideshare.


Bits Of Research, Michele C. Weigle Jun 2014

Bits Of Research, Michele C. Weigle

Computer Science Presentations

PDF of a powerpoint presentation that provides an overview of digital preservation, web archiving, and information visualization research; dated June 26, 2014. Also available on Slideshare.


Profiling Web Archives, Michael L. Nelson, Ahmed Alsum, Michele C. Weigle, Herbert Van De Sompel, David Rosenthal May 2014

Profiling Web Archives, Michael L. Nelson, Ahmed Alsum, Michele C. Weigle, Herbert Van De Sompel, David Rosenthal

Computer Science Presentations

PDF of a powerpoint presentation from the 2014 International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) General Assembly, Paris, France, May 21, 2014. Also available on Slideshare.


Moved But Not Gone: An Evaluation Of Real-Time Methods For Discovering Replacement Web Pages, Martin Klein, Michael L. Nelson Jan 2014

Moved But Not Gone: An Evaluation Of Real-Time Methods For Discovering Replacement Web Pages, Martin Klein, Michael L. Nelson

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Inaccessible Web pages and 404 “Page Not Found” responses are a common Web phenomenon and a detriment to the user’s browsing experience. The rediscovery of missing Web pages is, therefore, a relevant research topic in the digital preservation as well as in the Information Retrieval realm. In this article, we bring these two areas together by analyzing four content- and link-based methods to rediscover missing Web pages. We investigate the retrieval performance of the methods individually as well as their combinations and give an insight into how effective these methods are over time. As the main result of this work, …


Telling Stories With Web Archives, Michele C. Weigle Nov 2013

Telling Stories With Web Archives, Michele C. Weigle

Computer Science Presentations

PDF of a powerpoint presentation from the Southeast Women in Computing Conference in Lake Guntersville State Park, Alabama, November 16, 2013. Also available on Slideshare.


Who And What Links To The Internet Archive, Yasmin Alnoamany, Ahmed Alsum, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson Sep 2013

Who And What Links To The Internet Archive, Yasmin Alnoamany, Ahmed Alsum, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson

Computer Science Presentations

PDF of a powerpoint presentation from TPDL 2013: 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, Valletta, Malta, September 22-26, 2013. Also available from Slideshare.


Resurrecting My Revolution: Using Social Link Neighborhood In Bringing Context To The Disappearing Web, Hany M. Salaheldeen, Michael L. Nelson Sep 2013

Resurrecting My Revolution: Using Social Link Neighborhood In Bringing Context To The Disappearing Web, Hany M. Salaheldeen, Michael L. Nelson

Computer Science Presentations

PDF of a powerpoint presentation from TPDL 2013: 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, Valletta, Malta, September 22-26, 2013. Also available on Slideshare.


Profiling Web Archive Coverage For Top-Level Domain & Content Language, Ahmed Alsum, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson, Herbert Van De Sompel Sep 2013

Profiling Web Archive Coverage For Top-Level Domain & Content Language, Ahmed Alsum, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson, Herbert Van De Sompel

Computer Science Presentations

PDF of a powerpoint presentation from TPDL 2013: 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, Valletta, Malta, September 22-26, 2013. Also available on Slideshare.


On The Change In Archivability Of Websites Over Time, Mat Kelly, Justin F. Brunelle, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson Sep 2013

On The Change In Archivability Of Websites Over Time, Mat Kelly, Justin F. Brunelle, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson

Computer Science Presentations

PDF of a powerpoint presentation from TPDL 2013: 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, Valletta, Malta, September 22-26, 2013. Also available on Slideshare.


Who Will Archive The Archives? Thoughts About The Future Of Web Archiving, Michael L. Nelson, Scott G. Ainsworth, Ahmed Alsum, Justin F. Brunelle, Mat Kelly, Hany Salaheldeen, Michele C. Weigle, Robert Sanderson, Herbert Van De Sompel Sep 2013

Who Will Archive The Archives? Thoughts About The Future Of Web Archiving, Michael L. Nelson, Scott G. Ainsworth, Ahmed Alsum, Justin F. Brunelle, Mat Kelly, Hany Salaheldeen, Michele C. Weigle, Robert Sanderson, Herbert Van De Sompel

Computer Science Presentations

PDF of a powerpoint presentation from the Wolfram Data Summit 2013 in Washington D.C., September 5-6, 2013. Also available on Slideshare.


More Archives, More Better, Michael L. Nelson Apr 2013

More Archives, More Better, Michael L. Nelson

Computer Science Presentations

PDF of a powerpoint presentation from the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) 2013 General Assembly in Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 23, 2013. Also available from Slideshare.


Why Care About The Past?, Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle Jan 2012

Why Care About The Past?, Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle

Computer Science Presentations

A set of slides used in various presentations by the authors to show that replaying an experience via archived web pages is more compelling than reading a summary of the event. Also available on Slideshare.


Music Video Redundancy And Half-Life In Youtube, Matthias Prellwitz, Michael L. Nelson Sep 2011

Music Video Redundancy And Half-Life In Youtube, Matthias Prellwitz, Michael L. Nelson

Computer Science Presentations

PDF of a powerpoint presentation from TPDL 2011: 15th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, in Berlin, Germany, September 25-29, 2011. Also available on Slideshare.


Memento: Time Travel For The Web, Herbert Van De Sompel, Michael L. Nelson, Robert Sanderson, Lyudmila Balakireva, Scott Ainsworth, Harihar Shankar Nov 2010

Memento: Time Travel For The Web, Herbert Van De Sompel, Michael L. Nelson, Robert Sanderson, Lyudmila Balakireva, Scott Ainsworth, Harihar Shankar

Computer Science Presentations

PDF of a powerpoint presentation from the Web UNC Scholarly Communications Working Group Meeting, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, November 10, 2010. Also available on Slideshare.


My Point Of View, Michael L. Nelson Sep 2010

My Point Of View, Michael L. Nelson

Computer Science Presentations

PDF of a powerpoint presentation from the Web Archiving Cooperative (WAC) Meeting, Stanford University, September 9, 2010. Also available on Slideshare.


A Very Incomplete & Biased Review Of Web Archiving, Michael L. Nelson, Herbert Van De Sompel, Robert Sanderson, Frank Mccown, Martin Kliein Sep 2010

A Very Incomplete & Biased Review Of Web Archiving, Michael L. Nelson, Herbert Van De Sompel, Robert Sanderson, Frank Mccown, Martin Kliein

Computer Science Presentations

PDF of a powerpoint presentation from the Web Archiving Cooperative (WAC) Meeting, Stanford University, September 9, 2010. Also available on Slideshare.


(Re-) Discovering Lost Web Pages, Martin Klein, Michael L. Nelson Oct 2009

(Re-) Discovering Lost Web Pages, Martin Klein, Michael L. Nelson

Computer Science Presentations

PDF of a powerpoint presentation from a Mathematics & Computer Science Seminar at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2, 2009. Also available on Slideshare.