Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

It is hard to believe that the time has come for me to write a wrap up blog about the adventure that was my Masters Degree and the thesis that got me to this point. If you follow this blog with any regularity you may remember two posts, written by myself, that were the genesis of my thesis topic: 2017-01-20: CNN.com has been unarchivable since November 1st, 2016 2017-03-09: A State Of Replay or Location, Location, Location Bonus points if you can guess the general topic of the thesis from the titles of those two blog posts. However, it is ok if you can not as I will give an oh so brief TL;DR;. The replay problems with cnn.com were, sadly, your typical here today gone tomorrow replay issues involving this little thing, that I have come to , known as JavaScript. What we also found out, when replaying mementos of cnn.com from the major web archi...

With just a little abuse: "Which way did they go? How many were there? I must find my references; For I am their master." LaTeX references are wonderful things.  In this short epistle, we will explore some A sample page with reference problems. of the interesting things that you can do with them, problems that can arise from misusing them, problems that can arise from not using them, and finally how to spice them up just a little. First we will set up a conceptual model using based on the LaTeX file (Listing 1), the make file (Listing 2), and some auxiliary files that LaTeX creates.  Firstly, copy the LaTeX file and the make file to a convenient directory.  Create references.pdf from the command line, by executing make .  You want to get a sample PDF like in the image.  Now that we have something to look at, we can construct the conceptual model. Opening the references.aux and searching for the lines that begin with the \newlabel token, and...

To the great Margin Police: "You lay down rules for all that approach you, One and half on the left-hand edge, One on all the other edges, Page numbers one half down from the top. These are your words. And we are grateful for you guidance and direction. Lo, you lead us in the ways of professionalism and consistency. We, the unwashed are grateful." But I have one question: Why doesn't the LaTeX style file help me achieve these goals?? And so the exploration begins. Sometimes we use LaTeX to write and submit papers and reports for publication.  Often the publishers provide a style file for us to use that dictates things like margins, number of columns per page, headers, footers, and other formatting directives.  Other times, guidance comes from "instructions to authors" and we are expected and required to meet the requirements.  What follows below are how see what are the current margins, how to set the margins, and how to see if your docum...