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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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
Automatically Selecting Striking Images for Social Cards
Shawn M. Jones, Michele C. Weigle, Martin Klein +1
To allow previewing a web page, social media platforms have developed social cards: visualizations consisting of vital information about the underlying resource. At a minimum, soci…
SHARI -- An Integration of Tools to Visualize the Story of the Day
Shawn M. Jones, Alexander C. Nwala, Martin Klein +2
Tools such as Google News and Flipboard exist to convey daily news, but what about the past? In this paper, we describe how to combine several existing tools with web archive holdi…
MementoEmbed and Raintale for Web Archive Storytelling
Shawn M. Jones, Martin Klein, Michele C. Weigle +1
For traditional library collections, archivists can select a representative sample from a collection and display it in a featured physical or digital library space. Web archive col…
Visualizing Webpage Changes Over Time
Abigail Mabe, Dhruv Patel, Maheedhar Gunnam +5
We report on the development of TMVis, a web service to provide visualizations of how individual webpages have changed over time. We leverage past research on summarizing collectio…