Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

This screenshot from DSA Puddles demonstrates  the story produced by the SHARI process for the  largest StoryGraph component on March 23, 2020 . Here we see news stories discussing the COVID-19 pandemic on that day. My research focuses on summarizing existing web archive collections through social media storytelling. For this effort, we developed Raintale to tell the stories produced by a selection of mementos. Collections exist at various web archives, like Archive-It and the UK Web Archive . As shown by Klein et al. , we can build collections of mementos by conducting focused crawling of web archives. Raintale works well for these cases involving existing mementos, but what if we want to make a story about live web resources, like current events from the news? Nwala's StoryGraph for March 23, 2020 . Here we see edges connecting the largest connected component - the biggest story of the day. Nwala's  StoryGraph for March 23, 2020 , showing how one ...

News articles from Indian newspapers about a corruption case involving an Indian doctor. The left images show screenshots of the article from the print newspaper. The right images show URLs for the articles returning with 404 pages.   My brother, a lawyer in India, recently sent me two screenshots shown in Figures 1 and 2, of a news article about a corruption case involving a renowned doctor from India. In order to proceed with legal proceedings against the newspapers for publishing the article, my brother needed some evidence about the publication of the articles. Therefore he sought my help in finding the URLs of the articles shown in the screenshots. The news articles were published in an English language newspaper,  The Asian Age , and a Hindi language newspaper,  Punjab Kesari .  Figure 1: Screenshot of the news article from the English language newspaper,  The Asian Age  shared with me by my brother Figure 2: Screensho...

Mat Kelly reports on the Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) Workshop 2018 that occurred in Fort Worth, Texas.                                                                                                                                                        ...