Bootstrapping Web Archive Collections from Social Media

Nwala, Alexander C.; Weigle, Michele C.; Nelson, Michael L.

doi:10.1145/3209542.3209560

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“…How similar are social media collections about events to web archive collections on the same topic? Nwala et al (Nwala et al, 2018a) analysed the text from web pages shared on Twitter, Storify, Reddit and the web archiving platform Archive-It. Their results show that web archive collections about events are very similar to social media collections.…”

Section: Analysis Of Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Past Web

2021

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Table Of Content 0.1 Dedication 0.2 Foreword 0.3 Preface Part 1 The era of information abundance and memory scarcity Chapter 1.0 Part introduction Chapter 1.1 The problem of web ephemera Chapter 1.2 Web archives preserve our digital collective memory Part 2 Collecting before it vanishes Chapter 2.0 Part introduction Chapter 2.1 National web archiving in Australia -representing the comprehensive Chapter 2.2 Web Archiving Singapore: The Realities of National Web Archiving Chapter 2.3 Archiving the social media -the Twitter case Chapter 2.4 Creating Event-Centric Collections from Web ArchivesPart 3 Access methods to analyse the Past web Chapter 3.0 Part introduction Chapter 3.1 Full-text and URL search Chapter 3.2 A holistic view on Web archives Chapter 3.3 Interoperability for Accessing Versions of Web Resources with the Memento Protocol Chapter 3.4 Linking Twitter archives with TV archives Chapter 3.5 Image analytics in web archives Part 4 Researching the past Web Chapter 4.0 Part introduction Chapter 4.1 Digital archaeology in the web of links: reconstructing a late-90s web sphere Chapter 4.2 Quantitative approaches to the Danish web archive Chapter 4.3 Critical Web Archive Research Chapter 4.4 Exploring Online Diasporas: London's French and Latin American Communities in the UK Web Archive Chapter 4.5 Platform and app histories: Assessing source availability in web archives and app repositories Part 5 Web archives as infrastructures to develop innovative tools Chapter 5.0 Part introduction Chapter 5.1 The need for infrastructures for the study of web-archived material Chapter 5.2 Automatic generation of timelines for past events Chapter 5.3 Political opinions of the past Web Chapter 5.4 Framing web archives with browsers contemporary to a website's creation Chapter 5.5 Big Data analytics over past web data Part 6 The Past Web: a look into the future.This book is dedicated to Vitalino Gomes who taught me that the value of a Man is in his Integrity.

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Section: Analysis Of Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Past Web

2021

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“…As a tweet can have at most 280 characters, this platform poses several challenges caused by the short content of messages. For example, there are studies extending traditional IR/NLP techniques designed for long documents such as news articles to fit short texts, e.g., identifying central topic model from tweet streams [48], summarizing tweets [22], retrieving opinions [21], detecting community [8], and building corpora [38,42,46]. In addition, Twitter contains not only texts but also unique features such as hashtags, followers and followees (i.e., Twitter users who follow or are followed by a particular user), and URLs.…”

Section: Twitter Analysismentioning

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Analyzing history-related posts in twitter

Sumikawa

Jatowt

2020

Int J Digit Libr

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Microblogging platforms such as Twitter have been increasingly used nowadays to share information between users. They are also convenient means for propagating content related to history. Hence, from the research viewpoint they can offer opportunities to analyze the way in which users refer to the past, and how as well when such references appear and what purposes they serve. Such study could allow to quantify the interest degree and the mechanisms behind content dissemination. We report the results of a large scale exploratory analysis of history-oriented posts in microblogs based on a 28-month-long snapshot of Twitter data. The results can increase our understanding of the characteristics of history-focused content sharing in Twitter. They can also be used for guiding the design of content recommendation systems as well as time-aware search applications.

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“…The problem of knowing what to collect from the web has also been treated in the digital library research community as a focused crawling problem. In focused crawling the goal is to collect content about particular topics (Risse et al, 2012), events (Klein, Balakireva, & Van de Sompel, 2018;Yang, Chitturi, Wilson, Magdy, & Fox, 2012 ), or to collect content that has a particular characteristic such as popularity (Page, Brin, Motwani, & Winograd, 1999), importance Baeza-Yates, Marin, Castillo, & Rodriguez (2005)] or social engagement (Gossen, Demidova, & Risse, 2015 ;Milligan, Ruest, & Lin, 2016;Nwala, Weigle, & Nelson, 2018 ). Generally speaking these approaches take the focus to be a topic, event, person, organization that can be qualified by the types of media (documents, audio, video).…”

Section: Digital Librariesmentioning

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Appraisal Practices in Web Archives

Summers¹

2019

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This paper explores the art and science of deciding what web archives collect by reviewing the literature of archival appraisal through the theoretical lens of Science and Technology Studies. I suggest that our anxieties around what web archives remember and forget, get embodied in dreams (and nightmares) of Big Data and The Cloud. These notions are best understood by attending to the specific material practices of people working with memory and machines. The disciplinary perspective of software studies can provide insight into how these material practices of appraisal operate in response to, and outside of traditional conceptions of the archive, and also as an instrument of governmentality.

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Bootstrapping Web Archive Collections from Social Media

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