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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Web archive"”.
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Large Web Archive Collection Infrastructure and Services
The web has evolved to be the primary carrier of human knowledge during the information age. The ephemeral nature of much web content makes web knowledge preservation vital in preserving human knowledge and memories. Web archives are created to preserve the current web and make it available for …
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Bootstrapping Web Archive Collections From Micro-Collections in Social Media
<p>In a Web plagued by disappearing resources, Web archive collections provide a valuable means of preserving Web resources important to the study of past events. These archived collections start with seed URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers) hand-selected by curators. Curators produce high quality …
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MementoMap: A Web Archive Profiling Framework for Efficient Memento Routing
<p>With the proliferation of public web archives, it is becoming more important to better profile their contents, both to understand their immense holdings as well as to support routing of requests in Memento aggregators. A memento is a past version of a web page and a Memento aggregator is a tool …
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Web Archive Services Framework for Tighter Integration Between the Past and Present Web
<p>Web archives have contained the cultural history of the web for many years, but they still have a limited capability for access. Most of the web archiving research has focused on crawling and preservation activities, with little focus on the delivery methods. The current access methods are …
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Research Data Management and Sharing Practices in the Digital Humanities with a Focus on Publisher Support: A Case Study in the Field of Web Archive Studies
… the specific case concerns the field of Web Archive Studies. The case study also gathers broader insights into Digital Humanities researchers, under which WAS is classified as a specialised field. The purpose of the study was to explore the nature of data, and current RDM and data sharing …
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Improving Collection Understanding for Web Archives with Storytelling: Shining Light Into Dark and Stormy Archives
… to make sense of an ever-increasing number of archived web pages. As collections themselves grow, we need tools to make sense of them. Tools that work on the general web, like search engines, are not a good fit for these collections because search engines do not currently represent multiple …
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Expanding the Usage of Web Archives by Recommending Archived Webpages Using Only the URI
<p>Web archives are a window to view past versions of webpages. When a user requests a webpage on the live Web, such as http://tripadvisor.com/where_to_t ravel/, the webpage may not be found, which results in an HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) 404 response. The user then may search for the …
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A conversation analytic examination of alignment and disalignment in broadcast political news interviews
… and were collected from the United Nations web archive. Taken as a whole, this thesis could be used to compare political discourse in one culture/language with the discourses of other cultures. This type of comparison is needed for better cross cultural media relations and diplomatic …
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Herodotus : a peer-to-peer Web archival system
… and implementation of Herodotus, a peer-to-peer web archival system. Like the Wayback Machine, a website that currently offers a web archive, Herodotus periodically crawls the world wide web and stores copies of all downloaded web content. Unlike the Wayback Machine, Herodotus does not rely on a …
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Reparative Preservation through Immersive 3D Documentation: Cultural Memory, Spatial Justice, and Gullah Geechee Futures on Daufuskie Island
… (https://daufuskie3d.org/), an interactive website that presents annotated 3D scans, oral histories, ambient videos, and symbolic interface design rooted in Gullah epistemologies. It is guided by two research questions: How can immersive documentation support reparative preservation for …
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Avoiding Spoilers on Mediawiki Fan Sites Using Memento
… shows, novels, movies) exist on the World Wide Web. These wikis provide a wealth of information about complex stories, but if readers are behind in their viewing they run the risk of encountering spoilers" -- information that gives away key plot points before the intended time of the show's …
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The French in London on-land and on-line: an ethnosemiotic analysis
… has curated a Special Collection of community Web resources in the UK Web Archive, laying the foundations for a theory of selective thematic Web archiving. An innovative “ethnosemiotic” paradigm, combining Bourdieu’s ethnographic principles and the multimodal social semiotic approach advocated …
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To Relive the Web: A Framework for the Transformation and Archival Replay of Web Pages
<p>When replaying an archived web page (known as a memento), the fundamental expectation is that the page should be viewable and function exactly as it did at archival time. However, this expectation requires web archives to modify the page and its embedded resources, so that they no longer …
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Internet Art and Agency: The Social Lives of Online Artworks
… to explore the possibilities of the World Wide Web. This thesis investigates online artworks by studying their agency. Why do people interact with them, as if they are alive? How do they mobilise people, or make them share visions and ideas? Based on research in largely untapped archives, it …