using web archives to enrich the live web experience through storytelling

Using&Web&Archives&to&Enrich&the&Live&Web&ExperienceThrough&Storytelling

Yasmin&AlNoamanyOld&Dominion&University

Web&Science&and&Digital&Libraries&Group&http://wsEdl.cs.odu.edu/,&@WebSciDL

This%work%is%supported% in%part%by%IMLS%LG87181580077

MagdeburgEStendalUniversity&of&Applied&SciencesSept.&18,&2015

Using&Web&Archives&to&Enrich& the&Live&Web&Experience&Through& Storytelling [email protected]

About&Yasmin

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Stories&in&Literature

Story%elements:%%setting,%characters,%sequence,%exposition,%conflict,%climax,%resolution

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Once&upon&a&time

http://www.learner.org/interactives/story/


Stories&in&social&media

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“It's%hard%to%define%a%story,%but%I%know%it%when%I%see%it”%(Alexander,%2008)

A%loose%context%of%the%conventional%definition% in%Literature%


“storytelling”&is&becoming&a&popular&technique&in&social&media&

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There&is&interest&in&choosing&k items&from&N

where&k#<< N

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I&have&1000s&of&posts,&images,&friends’&posts,&etc.&in&Facebook

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Facebook&reduces&this&to&1&minute&video&(Facebook&Lookback)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWoBAjovHT4

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Interest&from&Twitter&in&storytelling

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1&Second&Everyday

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What&is&the&problem&with&storytelling&services?

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The&Egyptian&Revolution&on&Storify


Bookmarking,&not&preserving!&


How&often&do&you&face&“Not&Found!”?

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Social&media&can&go&offEtopic

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A%year%after%publication,%about%11%%of%content%shared%on%social%media%will%be%gone%(SalahEldeen,%2012)*

* SalahEldeen, H.M., Nelson, M.L.: Losing my revolution: How many resources shared on social media have been lost? TPDL’12.


The&Web&is&important&for&our&cultural&heritage.How&to&preserve&the&

Web??!!!

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What&are&web&archives?

20022005

2009

201117


Memento:&an&archived&snapshot&as&it&appeared&in&the&past

20022005

2009

201118


What&are&some&web&archives?

• The%entire%web

• On8demand%free%services

• National%libraries

• Theme8based%collections

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For%more%information:%https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_archiving


ArchiveEIt,&a&subscriptionEbased&service,&hosts&curated&web&collections

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>%3,000%collections

~340%institutions

>%10B%archived%pages


Collection&title

Collection&categorization&based&on&the&

curator

Seed&URI

Metadata&about&the&collection

Text&search&box

The&group&that&the&resource&belongs&to

List&of&the&seed&URIs

Timespan&of&the&resource

And&the&number&of&times&it&has&been&captured&


What&is&the&problem&with&the&archived&collections?

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There&is&more&than&one&collection&about&“Egyptian&Revolution”

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• “201082011%Arab%Spring”%https://archive8it.org/collections/3101• “North% Africa%&%the%Middle%East%201182013”%https://archive8it.org/collections/2349• “Egypt%Revolution% and%Politics”% %https://archive8it.org/collections/2358


Collection&understanding&and&collection&summarization&are&not&

supported&currently

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Current&browsing&and&searching&services&for&the&“Egypt&Revolution&and&Politics”&collection

~30,000&mementosFor&500&URIs


web&archives&+&storytelling&services&!archived&enriched&stories

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Archived&collectionsStorytelling&services

Archived&enriched&stories


We&sample&k#mementos&from&N pages&of&the&collection&to&create&a&summary&story

S1

S2

S3

S4

S2

S1

S3

Collection& Y

S3

S2

S1

Collection& Z

Collection& X


A&story&that&summarizes&the&“Egyptian&Revolution”&collection&

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Research&Question

Can&we&(semiE)automatically&identify,&evaluate,&and&select&candidate&archived&web&pages&from&archived&collections&for&generating&stories&that&summarize&the&collection?

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The&archived&collection&is&two&dimensions

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Time

URI


Possible&types&of&stories&can&be&generated

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Fixed&Pages,&Fixed&Time

R1

R1

R1

R1

t1 t3t2 t5t4 t6

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Fixed&Page,&Fixed&Time

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A%desktop%Chrome%user8agenthttp://www.cnn.com/2014/02/24/world/africa/egypt8politics/index.html?hpt=wo_c2

Andriod Chrome%user8agenthttp://www.cnn.com/2014/02/24/world/africa/egypt8politics/index.html?hpt=wo_c2

Richard% Schneider% and%Frank%McCown,%“First%Steps%in%Archiving%the%Mobile%Web:%Automated%Discovery%of%Mobile%Websites”,% JCDL%2013.%


Fixed&Page,&Sliding&Time

R R R R R R

t1 t3t2 t5t4 t6

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Feb&1 Feb&1 Feb&2

Feb&4 Feb&5 Feb&7

Feb&9 Feb&11 Feb&11


Sliding&Page,&Fixed&Time

R1

R2

R3

R4

t1 t3t2 t5t4 t6

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Feb.&11,&2011Mubarak&resigns

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Sliding&Page,&Sliding&Time

R1

R2

R1

R3

R4

R2

t1 t3t2 t5t4 t6

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Jan&27 Jan&31

Feb&7Feb&4

Feb&11 Feb&11

Feb&2

Jan&25

Feb&10


Four&basic&story&types&

Fixed%Page%– Fixed%Time:%differences%in%GeoIP,%mobile,%etc.%(Kelly,% 2013)

Fixed%Page%– Sliding%Time:%evolution%of%a%single%page%(or%domain)%through%time

SlidingPage – Fixed%Time:%different%perspectives%on%a%point%in%time

Sliding%Page%– Sliding%Time:%broadest%possible%coverageof%a%collection

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same

Time

different

URI

same

different


Research&Methodology1. Establishing%a%baseline

a. For%archived%collections%b. For%human%stories

2. Calculate%the%aboutness of%the%collections3. Find%off8topic%URIs

4. Identify%the%best%k%mementos%that%represent%the%story

5. Visualize%the%generated%stories

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Research&Methodology1. Establishing%a%baseline

a. For%archived%collections%(Visualizing%Digital%Collections% at%Archive8It,%JCDL%2012)b. For%human%stories%(Characteristics%of%Social%Media%Stories,% TPDL%2015)

2. Calculate%the%aboutness of%the%collections3. Find%off8topic%URIs%(Detecting%Off8Topic%Pages%in%Web%Archives,% TPDL%2015)

4. Identify%the%best%k%mementos%that%represent%the%story

5. Visualize%the%generated%stories

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Mockup&for&generated&stories&on&Storify

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Sliding%Page,%sliding%TimeSliding%Page,%Fixed%Timehttp://storify.com/yasmina_anwar/the8egyptian8revolution8on8archive8it8collection%

http://storify.com/yasmina_anwar/the8egyptian8revolution8story8from8archive8it8hete


Interactive&timeline

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Replaying%Story%of%Egyptian%Revolution

http://www.dipity.com/YasminAlnoamany/Jan8258Egyptian8Revolution/


Summary

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Archived&collectionsStorytelling&services

Archived&enriched&stories

For%the%latest%update%about%Web%Science%and%Digital%Libraries%Group,%visit%http://ws8dl.cs.odu.edu/,% and%follow%@WebSciDL on%twitter

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