Press Coverage of WS-DL Research
A mostly complete list of popular press, blog, & podcast coverage of WS-DL research group activities, arranged in roughly reverse chronological order. Foreign language translations are included, but otherwise we've tried to restrict the collection to original stories and not reposts.
- John Berlin: Twitter Feed Monitoring and Automatic Archival Through WAIL | RJIJohn Berlin of Suffolk, Virginia, is a computer science student at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, where he works for the Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group.
- Mat Kelly: Final Report—Dodging the Memory Hole | RJIMat Kelly's project addresses the need to provide individuals with ways to collect, archive and access news content they perceive as important.
- Shawn Jones: Indicators that tweeting may improve the detection of news articles for web archives | RJIShawn Jones’s project explores the potential relationship between social media sharing of news articles and how quickly those articles are identified by web crawlers as candidates for archiving.
- Old Dominion Computer Scientists Awarded $830,000 Mellon GrantDigital researchers Michael Nelson and Michele Weigle collaborate to devise a method to preserve the scholarly record.
- You Can't Trust the Internet to Continue Existing" Our Incredible Journey " puts the ack! in acquihire. So says the tagline to this underground tumblr blog devoted to documenting the various purchase announcements of startups in the tech industry. And the various statements about "sunsetting" a product, why this means "great things," and decisions to end a company statement with the shout of "Onward!"
- Do I really want the net to forget my teenage self? - Alana Massey | Aeon EssaysAn eBay commercial from 2004 opens with a ginger-haired little boy losing his toy sail boat to the tides of the Atlantic at Cape Cod in 1972. Viewers follow the boat out to sea where it faces harsh winds and a terrible storm that sends the boat to the ocean floor, presumably forever.
- Series: Estos algoritmos evitarán que internet te destripe tu serie favorita. Noticias de TecnologíaPor fin nos decidimos a ver Breaking Bad. Al llegar a la segunda temporada buscamos en internet el nombre del actor que interpreta a algún personaje, o simplemente entramos en Twitter... y nos comemos un spoiler mayúsculo.
- Archive What I See NowBy Rashad McDowell Technology Editor Most people don't think about what happens to websites that they no longer visit. It's taken for granted that the internet is eternal, a place where information thrives and lives without end. That's not really the case. Old information on the net runs the risk of disappearing if the demand for it drops.
- Dr. Nelson, Chronicler of the WebBy Rashad McDowell Technology Editor Back in 1981, Michael Nelson went into a Circuit City with $300 he'd saved up. He had one prize in sight, an Atari 400. Nelson's purchase would be a defining one, one that would change the trajectory of his life. That Atari convinced him of his future career.
- A Computer Science MavenBy Rashad McDowell Technology Editor A desk clear of any clutter, marred only by the presence of a couple papers. Chairs set neatly in front of that desk. Two computer screens lit up in the background top off the office of Dr. Michele Weigle.
- What the Web Said YesterdayMalaysia Airlines Flight 17 took off from Amsterdam at 10:31 A.M. G.M.T. on July 17, 2014, for a twelve-hour flight to Kuala Lumpur. Not much more than three hours later, the plane, a Boeing 777, crashed in a field outside Donetsk, Ukraine. All two hundred and ninety-eight people on board were killed.
- Video: The Future of Web Archiving (Panel Discussion)Filed by on The following video was recorded at NDIIPP's Digital Preservation 2014 held at the Library of Congress on Wednesday, July 23, 2014 and made available online today. We've also includes a link to a slide deck as well as a text transcript.
- Cooperation and Collaboration: Digital Preservation 2014The 330 digital archivists who met in Washington, D.C., for the third annual Digital Preservation conference were treated to 2 days of presentations on July 22-23. Prior to 2012, this gathering was called the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) Partners Meeting.
- Das Netz speichert gar nicht allesDas Internet vergisst Vieles. Seiten werden geschlossen, alte Archive gehen flöten, ein großer Teil der Inhalte wird erst beim Aufruf generiert - und manche Systeme wie Snapchat setzen bewusst auf eine Nicht-Speicherung von Daten. DRadio-Wissen-Reporter Thomas Reintjes sucht öfter Seiten, die er mal gesehen hat, jetzt aber einfach nicht mehr wiederfindet, egal wie viel er googelt.
- NISO and OAI Publish American National Standard on ResourceSync Framework SpecificationFiled by on Released today by the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the Open Archives Initiative (OAI). NISO and OAI announce the publication of the ResourceSync Framework Specification (ANSI/NISO Z39.99-2014) -a new American National Standard for the web detailing various capabilities that a server can implement to allow third-party systems to remain synchronized with its evolving resources.
- This project aims to make '404 not found' pages a thing of the pastThe Internet is always changing. Sites are rising and falling, content is deleted, and bad URLs can lead to '404 Not Found' errors that are as helpful as a brick wall. A new project proposes an do away with dead 404 errors by implementing new HTML code that will help access prior versions of hyperlinked content.
- Internet Archaeologists Reconstruct Lost Web PagesComputer scientists have developed a technique for reconstructing missing web resources from the context in which they appeared, just lik...
- Carbon Dating The WebWhile surfing the web, you find something really interesting. But us it of current interest or is it already long gone. One of the proble...
- Altersbestimmung fürs WebIm Internet haben nicht alle Angebote zweifelsfrei identifizierbare Zeitstempel. IT-Forscher haben deshalb nun eine neue Methode entwicke...
- How to Carbon-Date a Web Page | MIT Technology ReviewIf a Web page lacks a time stamp, how do you know when it was created? A new Web application could help. Ever needed to know the age of a...
- Archiving the InternetIf you've been saving photos, notes and videos to your favorite social media sites and are counting on them to be there indefinitely, thi...
- DSHR's Blog: How Much Of The Web Is Archived?MIT's Technology Review has a nice article about Scott Ainsworth et al's important paper How Much Of The Web Is Archived? ( readable summ...
- Computer Scientists Measure How Much of the Web is Archived | MIT Technology ReviewNobody knows how much of the web has been archived for future generations. Now one group of computer scientists are attempting to find ou...
- Alzeihmer digitalLa mémoire d'internet, pourtant présumée infaillible, accuse elle aussi des lacunes, comme le montre une nouvelle étude de deux informati...
- ODU Researchers Probe Disappearance of Web Resources About Historic EventsResearchers at Old Dominion University have looked closely at six historic events between 2009 and 2012 and found that interesting nugget...
- Scientists estimate how fast the data disappears from the InternetSaturation of information - the basic property of modern life. For a month we receive and process as much data as our ancestors in the re...
- Social Media History Vanishing From The Web, Says StudyNearly one-third of recorded Internet history shared over social media platforms is missing, say computer scientists in a study of the Eg...
- Arqueólogos de la web recuperan los enlaces perdidos de la Primavera ÁrabeEn dos años se ha perdido casi el 30% de los contenidos que se compartieron en redes sociales como Twitter durante el estallido social qu...
- TSMRI: Where Does Social Media "Go"?We all know that social media outlets can be incredibly powerful. For example, the power of Twitter was made blatantly obvious in Egypt d...
- The Disappearing Web: How we're losing the battle to preserve the InternetThe Web may be less permanent than we once thought. According to archivists, after two years, 27 percent of social media, pictures, video...
- PI: Social network, problemi di memoria storicaRoma - Nel gennaio del 2011, un vento di rivolta ha iniziato a sconvolgere prima l'Egitto e poi gran parte del Medio Oriente, anticipando...
- Η εταιρεία που προσπαθεί να αρχειοθετήσει το internet - ΣΚΑΪ (www.skai.gr)Με την εξάπλωση που έχει σήμερα το Διαδίκτυο, για να ενημερωθεί κάποιος για οποιοδήποτε σημαντικό κοινωνικό ή πολιτικό γεγονός, ακόμη κι ...
- Web Horror! Online lost history... our stuff vanishing fast(Copyright: Getty Images)Our online history is disappearing at an astonishing rate, creating a black hole for future historians.RelatedTh...
- Digitales Gedächtnis: Das Netz vergisst dochTäglich gehen im Internet wichtige Daten verloren - leider nur nicht jene, auf die wir gerne verzichten würden. Als Mantra aller Internet...
- ... und das Web vergisst doch... | Historical Source CriticismHany M. SalahEldeen and Michael L. Nelson von der Old Dominion University, Norfolk (USA) legten heute (25.09.2012) Ihre Studie "Losing My...
- Twitter is Building Curation Tools to Allow Downloading all Your TweetsTwitter is working on a series of tools for users to handpick and publish selections of tweets, and to mass-download everything they've s...
- Akhir Tahun Ini Pengguna Twitter Bisa Arsipkan KicauannyaIlustrasi (Foto: dok okezone) CALIFORNIA - CEO Twitter Dick Costollo mengatakan bahwa para pengguna Twitter akan bisa mengarsip kicauanny...
- Social media geschiedenis verdwijnt langzaam | TwittermaniaOp Twitter beleven we de wereld om ons heen in 'realtime'; voorbeelden daarvan zijn de Arabische Lente, de rellen in Londen; maar bijvoor...
- Search Results | Toronto Star | Toronto StarModern history as told through social media is vanishing at a rate of more than 10 per cent a year, and Hany SalahEldeen is in a race to ...
- Tweet archiving may be available by year's end | TechHiveTwitter lovers who want to smoothly save their words of wisdom for posterity may soon be able to do so. That's what the CEO of the microb...
- 社交媒体失忆的"历史草稿" - 爱范儿 · Beats of Bits网络时代,互联网成为记录历史的载体。特别是社交媒体,普罗大众的只言片语,意见领袖的呐喊......构成了一部包罗万象、海纳百川的编年史,"地球的脉动"Twitter 不自觉地记录下大量草稿状态的历史。去年"阿拉伯之春"和埃及、利比亚政变期间,社交媒体成为推动革命进程的重要工...
- Studie zur Web-Haltbarkeit: Das Netz vergisst schnell - SPIEGEL ONLINEDas Internet vergisst nie? Von wegen. Das Web ist ein extrem flüchtiges Medium - binnen zweieinhalb Jahren ist ein Viertel der wichtigen ...
- SEEbiz.eu / Istraživanje: Internet briše nedavnu povijestLONDON - 11 posto sadržaja društvenih mreža nestalo u roku od godinu dana, a 27 posto u roku od dvije godine.
- La disparition de l'information | Agence Science-PresseEt pour un politologue ou, plus tard, un historien, cela signifie la perte d'une importante portion de l'information qui aurait été la se...
- The decaying web and our disappearing historyOur online history is disappearing at an astonishing rate, creating a black hole for future historians. Related The price of computer nos...
- We need to stop being so unconcerned with our digital history and respect the information that is moving to social mediaA little while ago in our post on professional collaboration, we promoted research done by Hany SalahEldeen and Michael Nelson at Old Dom...
- Historical Social Media Posts DisappearingWhere is the first place you read breaking news? More often than not, it is on social media. Social media has significantly changed how n...
- Buziaulane: BPN 1610: Social media not history proofThe history of digital media (mind you not digitised media like e-books) has been the subject of many a posting on this blog. There are s...
- Twitter zamiast podręcznika historii? Internetowa kronika znika w oczachSerwisy społecznościowe odegrały pewną rolę podczas ważnych wydarzeń ostatnich lat, jak protesty w Egipcie, powstanie w Syrii czy wcześni...
- Fin de l'Histoire - Les Médias Sociaux ne Conservent pas les Evénements HistoriquesLes contenus des médias sociaux se perdent au fil du temps, faute d'archive universelle. Les mouvements historiques qui font l'actualité ...
- The Race to Preserve History as It Happens OnlineHany M. SalahEldeen and Michael L. Nelson There is a well-known thrill that comes from watching -- nearly in real time -- as big news unf...
- La storia fragileQuasi il 30% della storia documentata della rivolta egiziana, partita ed esplosa sui social network, è già sparita. Con esso, tante perso...
- Historie sdílená přes sociální média rychle mizí v nenávratnuSociální média a internet všeobecně jsou velmi efektivní nástroje pro komunikaci v současnosti, pro diskutování aktuálních a nových témat...
- 分析:发布两年半后30%的信息流失 | 中文互联网数据研究资讯中心-199IT社交网络的内容在最近几年呈现爆炸性的增长,一个个的热点事件在社交网络上得到引爆,而老的热点事件也迅速被新的热点事情所取代。Hany M. SalahEldeen, Michael L. Nelson等人针对这些社交网络上分享过的热点事件的链接进行分析,以了解这些被分享过的链...
- Our social media history is disappearing faster than you probably thinkFrom the blog Technology News Blog: It's no secret that in a culture of constant internet connectivity, significant world events are repo...
- Archive Your Resources Before It's Too LateAn interesting article appeared on GigaOM describing a study that showed that the Web milieu is doing a poor job of archiving itself. Thi...
- The Disappearing Web: Decay Is Eating Our HistoryOne of the characteristics of the modern media age-at least for anyone who uses the Web and social media a lot-is that we are surrounded ...
- 0.02pc of resources shared on social media are lost per day - studyIn this digital age we expect that significant cultural events are well documented, particularly with the advent of social media. However...
- Twitter Is Not Your Historical Record - TruthdigA new study inspired by social media's role in the Arab Spring has revealed that links contained in 11 percent of posts published on webs...
- Scoperta degli scienziati informatici: eventi storici del mondo condivisi su Twitter sono scomparsi dal webScienziati informatici hanno detto che secondo un nuovo studio, la rivolta egiziana e altri eventi significativi, quasi il 30 per cento d...
- De geschiedenis, zoals door Twitter vastgelegd, verdwijnt stilaan maar zeker van het webHany SalahEldeen en Michael Nelson, twee onderzoekers van de Old Dominion University in Norfolk (Virginia), wilden weten in welke mate tw...
- The disappearing web: Information decay is eating away our historyOne of the characteristics of the modern media age - at least for anyone who uses the web and social media a lot - is that we are surroun...
- "Our History, As Recorded By Social Media, Is Slowly Leaking Away"I don't know that our history is disappearing more quickly because so much of it is now reported and recorded online, but maybe we had un...
- Important Pieces Of Social Media Are DisappearingTags: Hany SalahEldeen, Michael Nelson, Old Dominion University After communicating through social media an uprise started taking place i...
- The Race to Preserve History as It Happens OnlineHany M. SalahEldeen and Michael L. Nelson There is a well-known thrill that comes from watching -- nearly in real time -- as big news unf...
- History, As Recorded on Twitter, Is Vanishing From The Web, Say Computer ScientistsAlmost 30 per cent of recorded history, shared over social media such as Twitter, has disapeared, according to a new study of the Egyptia...
- WARCreate and Future Stewardship: An interview with Mat KellyThe five recipients of the inaugural NDSA innovation awards are exemplars of the creativity, diversity, and collaboration essential to su...
- Announcing Five NDSA Innovation Award WinnersThe National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group awards action team is excited to announce the first set of projects, i...
- Losing the first draft of history?Hany SalahEldeen should have been doing something else. But instead, he sat before two computer monitors at his apartment in Norfolk, jus...
- ODU Research Spurs World Interest in Lost Tweets from Egyptian RevolutionHany SalahEldeen, a Ph.D. student in computer science at Old Dominion University, never would have guessed how much social media traffic ...
- Michael Nelson on digital preservationMichael Nelson, Associate Professor at Old Dominion University, developed, along with colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, "...
- How Much of Internet is Archived, ODU Research AsksJames Lidington,Old Dominion University Events Examiner James J. "Jay" Lidington, an English teacher and freelance journalist in Norfolk,...
- News at Old Dominion UniversityThe digital preservation work of Old Dominion University computer scientist Michael Nelson is featured in a report this week on the websi...
- Web tool could help to archive the InternetIf there's one thing the Internet loves, it's what's new this very instant. Every day, data is deleted from websites and refreshed with w...
- Old Dominion U. professor is trying to save Internet historyWhat if you woke up tomorrow and all of your painstakingly edited YouTube videos were gone, your 4,000-entry Twitter feed erased and your...
- Strata Week: How much of the web is archived? - StrataHere are a few of the data stories that caught my attention this week. How much of the web is archived? Researchers at Old Dominion Unive...
- Old Dominion U. Researchers Ask How Much of the Web Is Archived - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher EducationResearchers at Old Dominion University in Virginia are trying to figure out how much of the public Web is archived and who is storing it,...
- Time-Travel for the Web: Library of Congress Project Wins Preservation Award- News Archive - Digital Preservation (Library of Congress)December 22, 2010 -- We naturally assume that older books, newspapers and other information sources are kept until we need them. But unti...
- Library of Congress Project Wins Preservation Award - News Releases (Library of Congress)Contact: Erin Allen (202) 707-7302 December 16, 2010 Library of Congress Project Wins Preservation Award Until recently there has been no...
- Take That, Facebook!ODU and a Portsmouth software developer have figured out how to protect you from Facebook stealing everything that ever mattered to you i...
- ODU'S NELSON AWARDED NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION CAREER GRANTOut-of-the-box thinking similar to the ever more ingenious Internet strategies used to disseminate spam e-mails may someday be employed to preserve digital data, according to the hypothesis of Old Dominion University computer scientist Michael Nelson.
- Michael Nelson - Digital Preservation (Library of Congress)Back to Digital Preservation Pioneers In Michael L. Nelson's view of digital preservation's future, data is well behaved but promiscuous....
- Access patterns organize data TRN 060204After more than a decade of rapid growth, the World Wide Web has grown to more than 40 million servers. But despite the efforts of many researchers, this abundance of information remains relatively disordered. Researchers from Old Dominion University are aiming to organize large bodies of information using a method that automatically generates links among digital objects based on the way the human brain organizes information.