Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

I am pleased to report on the successful completion of my Master's Degree thesis entitled "An Extensible Framework for Creating Personal Archives of Web Resources Requiring Authentication". The problem that I hoped to resolve with the study was one that plagues software like Archive Facebook , even to this day, in that when the hierarchy a social media website changes, tools created to preserve content on those sites tend to break. By conforming these tools to a specification that is setup to represent the hierarchy of the target social media websites, these tools become adaptive without the need of continuous maintenance on the part of the developer. Also in the study was an exploration and enumeration of various aspects of personal web archiving that prevent the field from taking advantage of the tools, procedures and mediums that are widely used in conventional web archiving. In addition to simply identifying the problem, I also created a Google Chrome extension, W

The Memento Project won the 2010 Digital Preservation Award in London on December 1, 2010. The DPA is sponsored by the Digital Preservation Coalition , and the Memento Project is sponsored by the Library of Congress (see also: LC's project page ). Details about the DPA are provided in several press releases, including ones from the DPC , ODU , LANL and LC . DPC has also posted a short video of an interview with Herbert . And for posterity, the original tweet from William Kilbride announcing the winner (more information from the award ceremony will be announced on #dpa2010 ). Thanks to the DPC, the DPA judges, the Library of Congress, and everyone on the Memento team! --Michael