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Hypercane: Toolkit for Summarizing Large Collections of Archived Webpages

Hypercane: Toolkit for Summarizing Large Collections of Archived Webpages

by Shawn M. Jones, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson

In the Dark and Stormy Archives (DSA) project, we focus on storytelling techniques to summarize collections of archived web pages. Since collections can have hundreds or even thousands of seeds (initial URLs) and each seed can be recrawled many times, with each version separat...

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Improving Collection Understanding in Web Archives

Improving Collection Understanding in Web Archives

by Shawn M. Jones

Ever since the Internet Archive started large-scale web archiving in 1996, historians, sociologists, and journalists have found web archives to be an important source of information for their work. Archive-It, a service focused on creating collections, allows curators to gene...

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