• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• Web Archives Analysis at Scale with the Archives Unleashed Cloud 

  Ruest, Nick; Milligan, Ian (2019-04-08)

  Web archives, repositories of born-digital information dating back to the Internet Archive and national libraries in the mid-1990s, are fantastic resources of information covering topics of interest to humanities and social ...

• Dataset: The Accessible Content Provider Landscape for Higher Education in North America 

  Hatton, Meredith; Kosavic, Andrea (2019-01-28)

  The aim of this study was to capture the current state of the accessible content provider landscape to glean best practices in the field to inform current praxis as well as identify future areas of research concentration. ...

• Diversity in Libraries: The Case for the Visible Minority Librarians of Canada (ViMLoC) Network 

  Majekodunmi, Norda (Canadian Library Association (CLA), 2013-02)

• Calls to Action for Data and Map Professionals 

  Orlandini, Rosa (2018-05-30)

  Truth and Reconciliation for Map and Data Professionals: Our Calls to Action In December 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released their final report and the 94 Calls to Action urging all levels of government ...

• Identifying and documenting the locations of Residential Schools in Canada 

  Orlandini, Rosa (2018-05-30)

  Between 1851 and 1998, over 139 Indian Residential Schools operated across Canada. The legacy and trauma of these schools leave scars in the communities in which the schools resided, as well as for school survivors and ...

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