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Nobody Truly Agrees on Sentiment: Humans, Bespoke Tools, and LLMs Struggle with Social Media Texts
Himarsha R. Jayanetti, Sivakanesan Dhanushkanda, Shuai Hao +2
Social media is a rich source of real-time public sentiment, but widely used sentiment analysis tools are often applied without understanding their limitations. In this study, we e…
Why People Share Social Media Screenshots
Tarannum Zaki, Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle
Posting screenshots of social media posts is a common way of increasing platform functionality, enabling inter-platform interoperability, and gives users more control over how cont…
Longitudinal Sampling of URLs From the Wayback Machine
Kritika Garg, Sawood Alam, Dietrich Ayala +3
We document strategies and lessons learned from sampling the web by collecting 27.3 million URLs with 3.8 billion archived pages spanning 26 years (1996-2021) from the Internet Arc…
Temporally Extending Existing Web Archive Collections for Longitudinal Analysis
Lesley Frew, Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle
The Environmental Governance and Data Initiative (EDGI) regularly crawled US federal environmental websites between 2016 and 2020 to capture changes between two presidential admini…
Archiving and Replaying Current Web Advertisements: Challenges and Opportunities
Travis Reid, Alex H. Poole, Hyung Wook Choi +4
Although web advertisements represent an inimitable part of digital cultural heritage, serious archiving and replay challenges persist. To explore these challenges, we created a da…
Categorizing Social Media Screenshots for Identifying Author Misattribution
Ashlyn M. Farris, Michael L. Nelson
Mis/disinformation is a common and dangerous occurrence on social media. Misattribution is a form of mis/disinformation that deals with a false claim of authorship, which means a u…
A Relevance Model for Threat-Centric Ranking of Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities
Corren McCoy, Ross Gore, Michael L. Nelson +1
The relentless process of tracking and remediating vulnerabilities is a top concern for cybersecurity professionals. The key challenge is trying to identify a remediation scheme sp…
Cited But Not Archived: Analyzing the Status of Code References in Scholarly Articles
Emily Escamilla, Martin Klein, Talya Cooper +3
One in five arXiv articles published in 2021 contained a URI to a Git Hosting Platform (GHP), which demonstrates the growing prevalence of GHP URIs in scholarly publications. Howev…
Extracting Information from Twitter Screenshots
Tarannum Zaki, Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle
Screenshots are prevalent on social media as a common approach for information sharing. Users rarely verify before sharing a screenshot whether the post it contains is fake or real…
Right HTML, Wrong JSON: Challenges in Replaying Archived Webpages Built with Client-Side Rendering
Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson, Sawood Alam +1
Many web sites are transitioning how they construct their pages. The conventional model is where the content is embedded server-side in the HTML and returned to the client in an HT…
Making Changes in Webpages Discoverable: A Change-Text Search Interface for Web Archives
Lesley Frew, Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle
Webpages change over time, and web archives hold copies of historical versions of webpages. Users of web archives, such as journalists, want to find and view changes on webpages ov…
Twitter DM Videos Are Accessible to Unauthenticated Users
Michael L. Nelson
Videos shared in Twitter Direct Messages (DMs) have opaque URLs based on hashes of their content, but are otherwise available to unauthenticated HTTP users. These DM video URLs are…
Caching HTTP 404 Responses Eliminates Unnecessary Archival Replay Requests
Kritika Garg, Himarsha R. Jayanetti, Sawood Alam +2
Upon replay, JavaScript on archived web pages can generate recurring HTTP requests that lead to unnecessary traffic to the web archive. In one example, an archived page averaged mo…
Did They Really Tweet That? Querying Fact-Checking Sites and Politwoops to Determine Tweet Misattribution
Caleb Bradford, Michael L. Nelson
Screenshots of social media posts have become common place on social media sites. While screenshots definitely serve a purpose, their ubiquity enables the spread of fabricated scre…
Web Archiving as Entertainment
Travis Reid, Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle
We want to make web archiving entertaining so that it can be enjoyed like a spectator sport. To this end, we have been working on a proof of concept that involves gamification of t…
Creating Structure in Web Archives With Collections: Different Concepts From Web Archivists
Himarsha R. Jayanetti, Shawn M. Jones, Martin Klein +4
As web archives' holdings grow, archivists subdivide them into collections so they are easier to understand and manage. In this work, we review the collection structures of eight w…
Robots Still Outnumber Humans in Web Archives, But Less Than Before
Himarsha R. Jayanetti, Kritika Garg, Sawood Alam +2
To identify robots and humans and analyze their respective access patterns, we used the Internet Archive's (IA) Wayback Machine access logs from 2012 and 2019, as well as Arquivo.p…
The Rise of GitHub in Scholarly Publications
Emily Escamilla, Martin Klein, Talya Cooper +3
The definition of scholarly content has expanded to include the data and source code that contribute to a publication. While major archiving efforts to preserve conventional schola…
Replaying Archived Twitter: When your bird is broken, will it bring you down?
Kritika Garg, Himarsha R. Jayanetti, Sawood Alam +2
Historians and researchers trust web archives to preserve social media content that no longer exists on the live web. However, what we see on the live web and how it is replayed in…
Where Did the Web Archive Go?
Mohamed Aturban, Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle
To perform a longitudinal investigation of web archives and detecting variations and changes replaying individual archived pages, or mementos, we created a sample of 16,627 memento…
Profiling Web Archival Voids for Memento Routing
Sawood Alam, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson
Prior work on web archive profiling were focused on Archival Holdings to describe what is present in an archive. This work defines and explores Archival Voids to establish a means…
Garbage, Glitter, or Gold: Assigning Multi-dimensional Quality Scores to Social Media Seeds for Web Archive Collections
Alexander C. Nwala, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson
From popular uprisings to pandemics, the Web is an essential source consulted by scientists and historians for reconstructing and studying past events. Unfortunately, the Web is pl…
What Did It Look Like: A service for creating website timelapses using the Memento framework
Dhruv Patel, Alexander C. Nwala, Michael L. Nelson +1
Popular web pages are archived frequently, which makes it difficult to visualize the progression of the site through the years at web archives. The What Did It Look Like (WDILL) Tw…
It's All About The Cards: Sharing on Social Media Probably Encouraged HTML Metadata Growth
Shawn M. Jones, Valentina Neblitt-Jones, Michele C. Weigle +2
In a perfect world, all articles consistently contain sufficient metadata to describe the resource. We know this is not the reality, so we are motivated to investigate the evolutio…