Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

Note: This blog post may be updated with additional links to slides and other resources as they become publicly available. On October 28, 2019, web archiving experts met with librarians and archivists at the George Washington University in Washington, DC. As part of the Continuing Education to Advance Web Archiving (CEDWARC) effort, we covered several different modules related to tools and technologies for web archives. The event consisted of morning overview presentations and afternoon lab portions. Here I will provide an overview of the topics we covered. Web Archiving Fundamentals Prior to attending the event Edward A. Fox , Martin Klein , Anna Perricci , and Zhiwu Xie created a brief tutorial covering the fundamentals of web archiving. This tutorial, shown below, was distributed as a video to attendees prior to the event so they could familiarize themselves with the concepts we would discuss at CEDWARC. Zhiwu Xie kicked off the event with a refresher o...

September 24th marked the beginning of iPRES 2018 located in Boston, MA, for which both Shawn Jones and I traveled from New Mexico to present our accepted papers: Measuring News Similarity Across Ten U.S. News Sites ,  The Off-Topic Memento Toolkit , and  The Many Shapes of Archive-It . iPRES ran paper and workshop sessions in parallel, therefore I will focus on the sessions I was able to attend. However, this year organizers created and shared  collaborative notes  with all attendees for all sessions to help others who couldn't attend many individual sessions. All the presentation materials and associated papers were also made available via google drive . Day 1 (September 24, 2018): Workshops & Tutorials The first day of iPRES attendees gathered at the  Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School  to get their registration lanyards and iPRES swag. Registration desk for #ipres2018 is almost open! We’ll have a total of alm...

Archive Unleashed 3.0 took place in the Internet Archive , San Francisco, CA. The workshop was two days long, February 23-24, 2017. This workshop took place in conjunction with a National Web Symposium , hosted at the Internet Archive, February 23 – 24. Four members of Web Science and Digital Library group ( WSDL ) from Old Dominion University had the opportunity to attend. The members are: Sawood Alam , Mohamed Aturban , Erika Siregar , and myself . This event was the third follow-up of the Archives Unleashed Web Archive Hackathon 1.0 , and Web Archive Hackathon 2.0 . @WebSciDL at @internetarchive after Archives Unleashed 3.0 wrap up. We have a winner of #HackArchives pic.twitter.com/vYLi89yap0 — Sawood Alam (@ibnesayeed) February 25, 2017 This workshop, was supported by the Internet Archive ,  Rutgers University , and the University of Waterloo . The workshop brought together a small group of around 20 researchers that worked together to develop new open source too...