Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

Recently, I have been working on enhancing an old project, WhatDidItLookLike . This project focuses on summarizing a URI by generating an animated GIF of what it looked like over the years. Users send in requests by simply tweeting out #whatdiditlooklike [URI].  . @acnwala , https://t.co/ZJweNxx5EC (CNN - Breaking News, Latest News and Vi...) has been posted: https://t.co/NCOiZZr2Yc — whatdiditlooklike (@_wdill) October 26, 2018 A screenshot for the first memento of each year is captured for the requested URI. These screenshots are then combined and used to generate a GIF. Currently, the GIF is posted to Tumblr and it can be viewed at whatdiditlooklike.mementoweb.org .  https://whatdiditlooklike.mementoweb.org/post/179447252314/what-did-httpswwwcnncom-look-like-from-2000 My goal was to share this GIF on Instagram. Instagram does not support GIFs so a workaround is to post a video instead. Using Instagram on a browser with a mobile device user-agent allows the user to post pictures

A story on Storify titled: "Lecture on Academic Freedom"  (capture date: 2016-05-31) The story on Storify titled: "Lecture on Academic Freedom" could not be found on Google   (capture date: 2016-05-31) The story on Storify titled: "Lecture on Academic Freedom" could not be found on Storify native search  (capture date: 2016-05-31) A part of our research ( funded by IMLS ) to build collections for stories or events involves exploring content curation sites like Storify  in order to determine if they hold quality (news worthy, timely, etc.) content. Storify is a social network service used to create stories which consists of text and multimedia content, as well as content from other social media sites like Twitter , Facebook and Instagram . Our exploration involved collecting stories from Storify over a period in other to manually inspect the stories to determine their newsworthiness. This exploration was dual natured: we collected latest