Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

A social card generated by Facebook for my previous blog post. Rich links, snippet , social snippet, social media card , Twitter card , embedded representation, rich object , social card . These visualizations of web objects now pervade our existence on and off of the Web. The concept has been used to render web documents as results in academic research projects, like in Omar Alonso's " What's Happening and What Happened: Searching the Social Web ". oEmbed is a standard for producing rich embedded representations of web objects for a variety of consuming services. Google experiments with using richer objects in their search results , even including images  and other content from pages. Facebook , Twitter , Tumblr , Storify , and other tools use these cards. They have become so ubiquitous that services that do not produce these cards, like Google Hangouts , seem antiquated. These cards also no longer just sit within the confines of the web browser, being used

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