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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…
Web Archives for Verifying Attribution in Twitter Screenshots
Tarannum Zaki, Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle
Screenshots of social media posts are a common approach for information sharing. Unfortunately, before sharing a screenshot, users rarely verify whether the attribution of the post…
Not Here, Go There: Analyzing Redirection Patterns on the Web
Kritika Garg, Sawood Alam, Dietrich Ayala +2
URI redirections are integral to web management, supporting structural changes, SEO optimization, and security. However, their complexities affect usability, SEO performance, and d…
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…
GitHub Repository Complexity Leads to Diminished Web Archive Availability
David Calano, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson
Software is often developed using versioned controlled software, such as Git, and hosted on centralized Web hosts, such as GitHub and GitLab. These Web hosted software repositories…
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…
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…
Examining the Challenges in Archiving Instagram
Rachel Zheng, Michele C. Weigle
To prevent the spread of disinformation on Instagram, we need to study the accounts and content of disinformation actors. However, due to their malicious nature, Instagram often ba…
Xenophobic Events vs. Refugee Population -- Using GDELT to Identify Countries with Disproportionate Coverage
Himarsha R. Jayanetti, Erika Frydenlund, Michele C. Weigle
In this preliminary study, we used the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) database to examine xenophobic events reported in the media during 2022. We collected a…
The Use of Web Archives in Disinformation Research
Michele C. Weigle
In recent years, journalists and other researchers have used web archives as an important resource for their study of disinformation. This paper provides several examples of this u…
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…
Exploring Xenophobic Events through GDELT Data Analysis
Himarsha R. Jayanetti, Erika Frydenlund, Michele C. Weigle
This study explores xenophobic events related to refugees and migration using the GDELT 2.0 database and APIs through visualizations. We conducted two case studies -- the first bei…
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…
Discovering the Traces of Disinformation on Instagram in the Internet Archive
Haley Bragg, Michele Weigle
Disinformation, which is fabricated, misleading content spread with the intent to deceive others, is accumulating substantial engagements and reaching a vast audience on Instagram.…
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…
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…