Alexander Nwala Computer Science Ph.D student, Old Dominion University

Summer Fellow, Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab

Dr. Michael Nelson Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University

Archives Unleashed 2.0: Web Archive Datathon,Washington DC

June 14, 2016

Generating collections for stories and events

• Carbon date is a tool for estimating the creation date of a website

• Returns a machine-readable structure

Website: http://cd.cs.odu.edu/

Carbon Date #WhatDidItLookLike

• Tumblr blog shows what a website looked like across multiple years

• Nominate websites to What Did It Look Like? by tweeting: “#whatdiditlooklike URL”

Website: http://whatdiditlooklike.mementoweb.org/

Previous Projects

• Returns an archived version of the page closest to the time of the tweet or

• Returns a newly archived version of the page, if the page was not archived 24 hours ago

Website: https://twitter.com/icanhazmemento/

#ICanHazMemento Web Query Classifier

• Classifies a web query as scholar or non-scholar

• Route the query to a local Digital Library not crawlable via Search Engines

Tech report: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.00184

Previous Projects

Generating collections for stories and events

• It’s not difficult to collect resources (links) for a story, but can we build a good collection?

• What does good mean?

• What are some properties of good stories?

Is this story from Storify good? Is this story from Storify good?

Generating collections for stories and eventsWhere to begin

• Understanding potential sources; Social Media (Storify, Twitter, etc) and News.

Storify native search does not find Stories

There is no neat way of collecting tweets in a conversation, since the subset of the graph seen depends on what tweet is selected.