Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

The Internet Archive TV News Archive is a service provided by the Internet Archive that enables users to search across a collection of television news programs. As of May 2024, the TV News Archive provides access to clips from 2.88 million US broadcast shows dating back to 2009 for research and educational purposes. For over a decade, journalists and scholars have used its collections to varying extents in over 2,000 articles and research publications. As illustrated in Figure 1, the TV News Archive data available to the public includes video clips of broadcasts and closed captions. The Internet Archive also provides access to chyrons (the "lower thirds" of TV screens displaying breaking news and highlights). Figure 1: Video clip from the TV News Archive displaying closed captions and a chyron (lower thirds) providing breaking news. Link to the video clip: https://archive.org/details/CNNW_20240503_133000_Trump_Hush_Money_Trial/start/5958/end/6018   Several tools have emerge...

Mat Kelly reviews WebSatchel, a browser based personal preservation tool.                                                                                                                                                               ...

Inspired by AlNoamany's work from " Detecting off-topic pages within TimeMaps in Web archives " I am pleased to announce an alpha release of the Off-Topic Memento Toolkit (OTMT). The results of testing with this software will be presented at iPres 2018 and those results are now available as a preprint . Web archive collections are created with a specific purpose in mind. A curator will supply seeds for the collection and create multiple versions of these seeds in order to study the evolution of a web page over time. This is valuable for following the changes in an organization or the events in a news story. Unfortunately, depending on the curator's intent, sometimes these seeds go off-topic. Because web archive crawling software has no way to know that a page is off-topic, these mementos are added to the collection. Below I list a few examples of off-topic pages within Archive-It collections. This memento from the Human Rights collection at Archive-It create...