Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

Trip Report for the Web Archiving and Digital Libraries Workshop 2016 in Newark, NJ.                            Following our recent trip to the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) , WS-DL attempted the Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) Workshop ( #wadl2016 ) (see 2015 and 2013 reports) co-located with the conference in Newark, New Jersey. This post documents the presentations and our take-home from the workshop. On Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at around 2pm, Ed Fox of Virginia Tech welcomed the crowd of 30+ librarians, researchers, and archivists into the two half-day event by first introducing Vinay Goel ( @vinaygo ) of Internet Archive (IA) to lead the panel of "Worldwide Activities on Web Archiving". Vinay described the recent efforts by IA to make the archives more accessible through additional interfaces to the archive's holdings. As occurred at Archives Unleashed 2.0 Datathon earlier this month, Vinay demoed the then restricted a

Good morning Newark! Beautiful start for the doctoral consortium and tutorials at #jcdl2016 pic.twitter.com/kEBdJtvIho — Michele Weigle (@weiglemc) June 19, 2016 The ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries ( JCDL ) is a major international conference that offers the opportunity to address technical, practical, and social issues associated with digital libraries. This annual conference was held at the Paul Robeson Campus Center, Rutgers University Newark, New Jersey, between June 19-23, 2016. Here is a list of the accepted papers  and posters/demos . The theme for this year's conference was Big Libraries, Big Data, Big Innovation. Computer/Information scientists, Librarians, Archivists, Social scientists, Historians and other participants from around the world and other disciples involved in digital library research and practice presented papers and posters, specialized workshops ( see Mat's blog post about the WADL workshop ), tutorials, panels, and a docto

The development, state, and future of 🐳 Web Archiving Integration Layer. 💄∨🐷?                                                                  Some time ago I created and deployed Web Archiving Integration Layer (frequently abbreviated as WAIL ), an application that provides users pre-configured local instances of Heritrix and OpenWayback. This tool was originally created for the Personal Digital Archiving 2013 conference and has gone through a metamorphosis. The original impetus for creating the application was that the browser-based WARCreate extension required some sort of server-like software to save files locally because of the limitations of the Google Chrome API and JavaScript at the time (2012). WARCreate would perform an HTTP POST to this local server instance, which could would then return an HTTP response with an appropriate MIME type that would cause the browser to download the file. I initially used XAMPP for this with a PHP script within the Apache instance. Th