by Shawn M. Jones and Diane Oyen
Understanding the spread of images across the web helps us understand the reuse of scientific visualizations and their relationship with the public. The “Flatten the Curve” graphic was heavily used during the COVID-19 pandemic to convey a complex concept in a simple form. It d...
by Shawn M. Jones, Michele C. Weigle, Martin Klein, Michael L. Nelson
Humans can choose individual documents from a web archive collection, but doing so is difficult if they are unfamiliar with the collection. The issue is scale. Most web archive collections consist of thousands of documents. Hypercane is a tool that automates the selection of d...
by Herbert Van de Sompel, Michael L. Nelson, Lyudmila Balakireva, Martin Klein, Shawn M. Jones, and Harihar Shankar
Most web archives augment Mementos when presenting them to the user, often for usability or legal purposes. Research efforts and software projects need access the original captured “raw” Mementos. So that users and software do not need to resort to archive-specific solutions, ...
by Herbert Van de Sompel, Martin Klein, Shawn M. Jones
We quantify the extent to which references to papers in scholarly literature use persistent HTTP URIs that leverage the Digital Object Identifier infrastructure. We find a significant number of references that do not, speculate why authors would use brittle URIs when persisten...
