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Building Community at Distance: A Datathon during COVID-19
(Digital Library Perspectives, 2020-08-04)This paper aims to use the experience of an in-person event that was forced to go virtual in the wake of COVID-19 as an entryway into a discussion on the broader implications around transitioning events online. It gives ... -
Bodies, Brains, and Machines: An Exploration of the Relationship between the Material and Affective States of Librarians and Information Systems
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020-01)This paper uses the idea of information networks and the ways librarian bodies are called to serve as a relay within information systems. The founding of librarianship as a profession in the Victorian period during a period ... -
Disaster Lit: Database for Disaster Medicine and Public Health
(The Charleston Company, 2020-07-01)Disaster Lit: Database for Disaster Medicine and Public Health is created and maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. It is an Open Access database of research literature in disaster medicine and public ... -
The Archives Unleashed Project: Technology, Process, and Community to Improve Scholarly Access to Web Archives
(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.
(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
(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
(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
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Wikidata and archivists
(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?
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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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