Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

Mat reports on his journalistic experience and how we can relive it through Internet Archive (#IA20)                             We have our collections, the things we care about, the mementos that remind us of our past. Many of these things reside on the Web. For those we want to recall and should have (in hindsight) saved, we turn to the Internet Archive . As a computer science (CS) undergrad at University of Florida , I worked at the student-run university newspaper, The Independent Florida Alligator . This experience became particularly relevant with my recent scholarship to preserve online news . At the paper, we reported mostly on the university community, but also on news that catered to the ACRs through reports about Gainesville (e.g., city politics). News is compiled late in the day to maximize temporal currency. I started at the paper a...

Dodging the Memory Hole 2016 , held at UCLA's Charles Young Research Library in Los Angeles California, was a two-day event to discuss and highlight potential solutions to the issue of preserving born-digital news. Organized by Edward McCain  (digital curator of journalism at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute and University of Missouri Libraries) this event brought together technologists, archivists, librarians, journalists and fourteen graduate students who had won travel scholarships for attendance.  Among the attendees were four members of the WS-DL  group (l-r): Mat Kelly ,  John Berlin ,  Dr. Michael Nelson , and  Shawn Jones . The event was made possible by support from the  Reynolds Journalism Institute ,  Journalism Digital News Archive (JDNA) ,  UCLA Library ,  the Educopia  Institute   and the Institute of Museum and Library Services  (IMLS) . Day 1 (October 13, 2016) Day...