Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Author "Ruest, Nick"
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Content Selection and Curation for Web Archiving: The Gatekeepers vs. the Masses
Milligan, Ian; Ruest, Nick; Lin, Jimmy (Association for Computing Machinery, 2016-06)Any preservation effort must begin with an assessment of what content to preserve, and web archiving is no different. There have historically been two answers to the question "what should we archive?" The Internet Archive's ... -
Desiderata for Exploratory Search Interfaces to Web Archives in Support of Scholarly Activities
Jackson, Andrew; Lin, Jimmy; Milligan, Ian; Ruest, Nick (Association for Computing Machinery, 2016-06)Web archiving initiatives around the world capture ephemeral web content to preserve our collective digital memory. In this paper, we describe initial experiences in providing an exploratory search interface to web archives ... -
The great WARC adventure: Using SIPS, AIPS, and DIPS to document SLAPPs
Milligan, Ian; Ruest, Nick; St. Onge, Anna (Society for Digital Humanities, 2016-03)This paper outlines the circumstances surrounding a libel case that was filed against academic librarian Dale Askey by publisher Herbert Richardson and his company Edwin Mellen Press, the resulting online debate, protest, ... -
An Open-Source Strategy for Documenting Events: The Case Study of the 42nd Canadian Federal Election on Twitter
Ruest, Nick; Milligan, Ian (Code4Lib, 2016-04-25)This article examines the tools, approaches, collaboration, and findings of the Web Archives for Historical Research Group around the capture and analysis of about 4 million tweets during the 2015 Canadian Federal Election. ...