Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

Popular Storytelling service, Storify , will be shut down on May 16, 2018 . Storify has been used by journalists and researchers to create stories about events and topics of interest. It has a wonderful interface, shown below, that allows one to insert text, but also add social cards and other content from a variety of services, including Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Getty Images, and of course regular HTTP URIs. This screenshot displays the Storify editing Interface. As shown below, Storify is used by news sources to build and publish stories about unfolding events, as seen below for the Boston NPR Station WBUR . Storify is used by WBUR in Boston to convey news stories. It is also the visualization platform used for summarizing Archive-It collections in the Dark and Stormy Archives (DSA) Framework , developed by WS-DL members Yasmin AlNoamany, Michele Weigle, and Michael Nelson. In a previous blog post , I covered why this visualization technique works and why m...

A social card generated by Facebook for my previous blog post. Rich links, snippet , social snippet, social media card , Twitter card , embedded representation, rich object , social card . These visualizations of web objects now pervade our existence on and off of the Web. The concept has been used to render web documents as results in academic research projects, like in Omar Alonso's " What's Happening and What Happened: Searching the Social Web ". oEmbed is a standard for producing rich embedded representations of web objects for a variety of consuming services. Google experiments with using richer objects in their search results , even including images  and other content from pages. Facebook , Twitter , Tumblr , Storify , and other tools use these cards. They have become so ubiquitous that services that do not produce these cards, like Google Hangouts , seem antiquated. These cards also no longer just sit within the confines of the web browser, being used ...