Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

In my wallet I have a few ₹500 Indian currency notes that say, "I PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER THE SUM OF FIVE HUNDRED RUPEES" followed by the signature of the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India . However, this promise was broken two years ago from today, since then these bills in my pocket are nothing more than rectangular pieces of printed paper. So, I decided to utilize my origami skills and turn them into butterflies. On November 8, 2016, at 8:00 PM (Indian Standard Time), Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the demonetization (effective in four hours after midnight) of the two biggest currency notes (₹1,000 and ₹500) in circulation at that time. Together these two notes represented about 86% of the total cash economy of India at that time. More than 65% of the Indian population still lives in rural and remote areas where availability of electricity, the Internet, and other utilities is not reliable yet. Hence, cash is a very common means of business...

Web pages are generally composed of many resource such as images, style sheets, JavaScript, fonts, iframe widgets, and other embedded media. These embedded resources can be referenced in many ways (such as relative path, absolute path, or a full URL). When the same page is archived and replayed from a different domain under a different base path, these references may not resolve as intended, hence, may result in a damaged memento . For example, a memento (an archived copy) of the web page https://www.odu.edu/ can be seen at  https://web.archive.org/web/20180107155037/https://www.odu.edu/ . Note that domain name has changed from www.odu.edu to web.archive.org and some extra path segments are added to it. In order for this page to render properly, various resource references in it are rewritten, for example,  images/logo-university.png  in a CSS file is replaced with /web/20171225230642im_/http://www.odu.edu/etc/designs/odu/images/logo-university.png . Traditiona...

Trip Report for the Web Archiving and Digital Libraries Workshop 2016 in Newark, NJ.                            Following our recent trip to the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) , WS-DL attempted the Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) Workshop ( #wadl2016 ) (see 2015 and 2013 reports) co-located with the conference in Newark, New Jersey. This post documents the presentations and our take-home from the workshop. On Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at around 2pm, Ed Fox of Virginia Tech welcomed the crowd of 30+ librarians, researchers, and archivists into the two half-day event by first introducing Vinay Goel ( @vinaygo ) of Internet Archive (IA) to lead the panel of "Worldwide Activities on Web Archiving". Vinay described the recent efforts by IA to make the archives more accessible through additional interfaces to the a...