Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

I've just finished up a pretty busy four week stretch that involved one workshop, one conference, one proposal review panel, the space shuttle, a working group meeting and the end of the spring semester. In the last week of April I went to Raleigh NC for the Linked Data on the Web Workshop ( LDOW 2010 ) and the World Wide Web Conference ( WWW 2010 ). I drove down to Raleigh Monday evening after giving the last lecture (on Memento ) in my CS 751/851 class . In addition to myself, from the WS-DL team Scott Ainsworth and Jeff Shipman were able to attend the pre-conference workshops WS-REST 2010 and LDOW 2010 but they both had to return to work after that and missed the WWW conference itself. WS-DL alumnus Frank McCown was able to attend WWW and it was good catching up with him. From the Memento team, Herbert & Rob were there for the entire week as well. We had a Memento paper at LDOW: Herbert Van de Sompel, Robert Sanderson, Michael L. Nelson, Lyudmila L. Bala...

There have been a number of developments in the Memento project. Perhaps the most interesting is the release of the MementoFox Mozilla Add-on. Shown to the left is the MementoFox installed in FireFox 3.6. I went to cnn.com , then turned on MementoFox by clicking the green "(M)" logo near the top left. I used the slider bar to select a date of 2010-02-22 (red text box), some magic happened, and then I was presented with an archived version of cnn.com in the WebCite archive with an actual date of 2010-02-23 , 1 day in the future of what I requested (green text box). Entering a new date in the red text box or using the slider bar will cause MementoFox to find the closest archived copy of cnn.com, possibly in archive other than WebCite. Everyone is encouraged to go to the Memento Demos page, install MementoFox and walk through some other time traveling scenarios detailed there. It is actually quite a lot of fun to play with. Feedback is welcome on the memento-dev gr...