• The Archives Unleashed Project: Technology, Process, and Community to Improve Scholarly Access to Web Archives 

  Ruest, Nick; Lin, Jimmy; Milligan, Ian; Fritz, Samantha (ACM/IEEE, 2020-08)

  The Archives Unleashed project aims to improve scholarly access to web archives through a multi-pronged strategy involving tool creation, process modeling, and community building -- all proceeding concurrently in mutually ...

• Introduction: Strange Circulations: Affect and the Library. 

  Sloniowski, Lisa; Adler, Kate (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020)

  Introduction to a special issue of Library Trends on the role of affect in library work.

• Content-Based Exploration of Archival Images Using Neural Networks 

  Adewoye, Tobi; Han, Xiao; Ruest, Nick; Milligan, Ian; Fritz, Samantha; Lin, Jimmy (ACM/IEEE, 2020-08)

  We present DAIRE (Deep Archival Image Retrieval Engine), an image exploration tool based on latent representations derived from neural networks, which allows scholars to "query" using an image of interest to rapidly find ...

• Photos of attendees at the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections Open House celebrating the 50th anniversary 

  Bazely, Dawn (2020-03-04)

  On Wednesday, March 4, 2020: 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Joy Kirchner, Dean of Libraries hosted a 50th anniversary celebration of the Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections at York University with an Archives Open House ...

• We Could, but Should We? Ethical Considerations for Providing Access to GeoCities and Other Historical Digital Collections 

  Lin, Jimmy; Milligan, Ian; Oard, Douglas W.; Ruest, Nick; Shilton, Katie (ACM, 2020-03)

  We live in an era in which the ways that we can make sense of our past are evolving as more artifacts from that past become digital. At the same time, the responsibilities of traditional gatekeepers who have negotiated the ...

• Mopping up metadata : excel functions, formatting, formulae 

  Cohen-Palacios, Katrina (2017-04-28)

• Wikidata and archivists 

  Cohen-Palacios, Katrina (2019-10-24)

  Wikidata, the youngest Wikimedia project, launched in 2012 and archival information is increasingly being added to the knowledge base platform. This presentation provides a brief, non-technical introduction to Wikidata and ...

• Jane Finch Community Research Partnership : November 29, 2016 Symposium Report 

  Tecle, Sam; Offeh-Gyimah, Abena; Ramsaroop, Talisha; Schwartzentruber, Lorna (2016)

  The Jane and Finch Community Research Partnership (JFCRP) held a symposium that brought together community residents, organizations, and York University academics on Tuesday November 29, 2016. The gathering addressed ...

• Managing Your Research; or, Eating Your Elephant in 18 months 

  St.Onge, Anna; Joseph, Kris; Bell, Norda; Allison-Cassin, Stacy; McLaren, Scott (2019-10-31)

  A team of librarians and archivists will discuss strategies, tools and methods around developing a research project. This will include tools and techniques for managing citations, organizing research material, planning out ...

• What would the cost of your last term paper be without library access? 

  Kosavic, Andrea (2014-10-20)

  In honour of Open Access Week 2014, I asked the question, “What would the cost of your last term paper be without library access?”. I strategically chose to parse the Works Cited section for a paper I wrote in December ...

• Finding and documenting the locations of Residential Schools in Canada 

  Orlandini, Rosa (2019-05-31)

  Maps have been created to depict the colonization of North America for hundreds of years. With the publication of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions findings, reports and Calls to Actions, many researchers are now ...

• Lowering the Barrier to Access: The Archives Unleashed Cloud Project 

  Ruest, Nick; Milligan, Ian (The web that was: archives, traces, reflections RESAW 2019*, 2019-06-19)

  The Archives Unleashed Project, aims to make petabytes of historical internet content accessible to scholars and others interested in researching the recent past. We respond to one of the major issues facing web archiving ...

• Project Sustainability and Research Platforms: The Archives Unleashed Cloud Project 

  Ruest, Nick; Milligan, Ian (IIPC Web Archiving Conference 2019, 2019-06-07)

  The Archives Unleashed Project, founded in 2017 with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, aims to make petabytes of historical internet content accessible to scholars and others interested in researching the recent ...

• See a little Warclight: building an open-source web archive portal with project blacklight 

  Ruest, Nick; Milligan, Ian (IIPC Web Archiving Conference 2019, 2019-06-06)

  In 2014-15, due to close collaboration between UK-based researchers and the UK Web Archive, the open-source Shine project was launched. It allowed faceted search, trend diagram exploration, and other advanced methods of ...

• Solr Integration in the Anserini Information Retrieval Toolkit 

  Clancy, Ryan; Eskildsen, Toke; Ruest, Nick; Lin, Jimmy (2019)

  Anserini is an open-source information retrieval toolkit built around Lucene to facilitate replicable research. In this demonstration, we examine different architectures for Solr integration in order to address two current ...

• Building Community and Tools for Analyzing Web Archives through Datathons 

  Milligan, Ian; Casemajor, Nathalie; Fritz, Samantha; Lin, Jimmy; Ruest, Nick; Weber, Matthew S.; Worby, Nicholas (2019)

  Starting in March 2016, the Archives Unleashed team and our collaborators have brought together social scientists, humanists, archivists, librarians, computer scientists, and other stakeholders to explore web archives as ...

• Scalable Content-Based Analysis of Images in Web Archives with TensorFlow and the Archives Unleashed Toolkit 

  Yang, Hsiu-Wei; Liu, Linqing; Milligan, Ian; Ruest, Nick; Lin, Jimmy (2019)

  We demonstrate the integration of the Archives Unleashed Toolkit, a scalable platform for exploring web archives, with Google's TensorFlow deep learning toolkit to provide scholars with content-based image analysis ...

• The Archives Unleashed Notebook: Madlibs for Jumpstarting Scholarly Exploration 

  Deschamps, Ryan; Ruest, Nick; Lin, Jimmy; Fritz, Samantha; Milligan, Ian (2019)

  This paper introduces the Archives Unleashed Notebook, which is designed to work with derivative datasets from the Archives Unleashed Cloud, a platform for analyzing web archives. These datasets contain common starting ...

• Warclight: A Rails Engine for Web Archive Discovery 

  Ruest, Nick; Milligan, Ian; Lin, Jimmy (2019)

  This paper describes the development of Warclight, a portmanteau of the open-source Blacklight platform and the ISO-standard Web ARChive file format. Warclight allows users to explore web archives that have been indexed ...

• The Cost of a WARC: Analyzing Web Archives in the Cloud 

  Deschamps, Ryan; Fritz, Samantha; Lin, Jimmy; Milligan, Ian; Ruest, Nick (2019)

  The value of web archives to support scholarship in the humanities and social sciences is slowly being realized by the increasing availability of scalable tools and platforms. The cost of providing scholarly access is a ...

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