Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

It was a fine afternoon and I had just finished my weekly meeting with my advisor Michael L. Nelson in which we discussed a few potential topics for my doctoral research after completing my masters degree . I dropped my meeting notes on the desk of my cubicle and went downstairs for a walk in the Old Dominion University (ODU) campus. It was a pleasant sunny weather outside, so I sat on a bench near a small pond behind the Computer Science building to enjoy the fountain in the pond and to observe turtles taking sun bath, of which, a few small ones were stacked on the backs of the big ones. I noticed a long-stem grass around the edge of the pond that reminded me of a grass we used to use for crafting in my village in India during my childhood. I picked a few stems, took them upstairs, washed them, weaved them into a bird, and hanged the bird from the wall of my cubicle. Later, it was moved to the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WSDL) Research Group 's PhD Crush board where it dr...

This document is an audit report of the latest development version of PyWB , a Web archive replay sytem, for its Memento (RFC 7089) compliance. As a growing number of public Web archives are moving towards deploying PyWB, it becomes critical to comply with standards to ensure that tools in the archiving ecosystem continue to function as expected. To audit the Memento compliance of PyWB I established the following setup: Captured example.com five times in separate WARC files with the gap of a few minutes each using warcio Created various test instances of PyWB's develop branch, which is one commit ahead of the v-2.4.0-rc6-test version (commit hash: 92e459bda52a2b03f33a4b0b8094ed424248d2a5 ) Initialized a collection named example and loaded freshly captured warc files in it for replay Placed multiple custom configuration files that are loaded by setting PYWB_CONFIG_FILE environment variable for each test instance Preserved the state of the relevant folder tree in pywb...