Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

  https://xkcd.com/2085/   The Internet Archive is hosting their annual celebration this week ( October 12, 2023 ), and I wanted to take this opportunity to both 1) encourage your attendance (virtual for most of us, but if you're in San Francisco, you can attend in person), and 2) express my appreciation and gratitude for continued existence of the Internet Archive, their evolving products and services, and their support of the research community.    The ongoing devolvement of Twitter into 4chan has caused me to reflect on the platforms, services, and corpuses on which I have built a research program over the last 20+ years.  Discussing the Twitter situation will be the topic of a future post, but here I want to laud the Internet Archive, specifically the Wayback Machine, and by extension, the suite of other public web archives, such as Archive.Today , Arquivo.pt , and the many members of IIPC .  In the past I've referred to the Internet Archive as th...

Most GitHub users are aware of *.github.io as a GitHub hosted website. But, before there was *.github.io, ( https://elescamilla.github.io ) there was *.github.com (https://elescamilla.github.com) that had the exact same functionality. What caused the change? On April 5, 2013, GitHub released a statement that they would be deprecating *.github.com for security reasons. In the post, they said that "all traffic will be redirected to the new *.github.io location indefinitely,  so you won't have to change any links". However, on January 29, 2021, they released an updated statement that they would stop redirecting *github.com to *.github.io starting April 15, 2021 to further address security concerns. They recommended that users "remove any external references to *.github.com". To encourage users to update any external links, they scheduled two " brown out " dates and notified users of the upcoming change. But... In most situations, it is difficult to modi...

Last year I collected all the #WebArchiveWednesday tweets that the Web Science and Digital Libraries Group ( @WebSciDL ) tweeted in 2020 , so I decided to do it again this year.  @TroveAustralia started the hashtag in 2019, then it was later adopted by the IIPC for World Digital Preservation Day 2019 , and since then the IIPC has been the driving force behind #WebArchiveWednesday .  Below I provide an edited list of the #WebArchiveWednesday tweets from 2021 that were about our group, from our group, or retweeted by members of our group.  Many are announcing our own papers, software releases, trip reports, defenses, blog posts, and other contributions.  However, I've made an effort to highlight the work of others as well as provide topical commentary.  In a perfect world, many of my Twitter threads should be converted into blog posts , but finding time to do that has been difficult.  This list should be taken simply as a weekly selection of whatever ca...