6 papers
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…
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…
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…