Resource Guide
Resources shared during the six Library as Laboratory sessions.
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Session 1: Supporting Computational Use of Web Collections
March 2
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Links shared:
- Unsworth, J. (1999). The Library as Laboratory. https://johnunsworth.name/ala99.htm
- Lightning Talk submission guidelines: https://bit.ly/LibLabGuidelines
- http://blog.archive.org/tag/web-data-research/
- https://webservices.archive.org
- https://github.com/internetarchive/ArchiveSpark
- https://webservices.archive.org/wewa
- https://www.gifcities.org
- https://archive.org/details/webarchivedatasets
Session 2: Applications of Web Archive Research with the Archives Unleashed Cohort Program
March 16
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Links shared:
- Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO): https://www.sucho.org
- The Archives Unleashed Project Website: https://archivesunleashed.org/
- Cohort 1 groups: https://archivesunleashed.org/cohorts2021-2022/
- Cohort 2 now accepting applications; program details available: https://archivesunleashed.org/cohorts2022-2023/
- Crisis Communication in the Niagara Region during the COVID-19 Pandemic project website: https://brockdsl.github.io/archives_unleashed/
- Check out Feminist Think Tank on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aesthetic.resistance/
- WARCnet project: https://cc.au.dk/en/warcnet/
- “Chicken and Egg” paper related to the WG2 WARCnet research on the COVID crisis: https://cc.au.dk/fileadmin/dac/Projekter/WARCnet/Aasman_et_al_Chicken_and_Egg.pdf
- Oral History of the IIPC COVID collection (F. Geeraert and N. Bingham): https://cc.au.dk/fileadmin/user_upload/WARCnet/Geeraert_et_al_COVID-19_IIPC__1_.pdf
- Blogpost by AWAC2 team on the IIPC blog: https://netpreserveblog.wordpress.com/2021/11/02/analysing-web-archives-of-the-covid-19-crisis-through-the-iipc-collaborative-collection-early-findings-and-further-research-questions/
- Lightning Talks submission guidelines: https://bit.ly/LibLabGuidelines
Session 3: Hundreds of Books, Thousands of Stories: A Guide to the Internet Archive’s African Folktales
March 30
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Links shared:
- After 25 years, Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive are still working to democratize knowledge: https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/03/after-25-years-brewster-kahle-and-the-internet-archive-are-still-working-to-democratize-knowledge/
Jason Scott’s intro
- https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_presskits
- https://archive.org/details/digitaltransportation
- Since people mentioned it, you can get a cool Internet Archive hat like Jason: https://store.archive.org
Program:
- Laura & Helen’s slide deck, including all their links & resources: https://slides.lauragibbs.net/africa
- A Reader’s Guide to African Folktales at the Internet Archive: http://Bibliography.LauraGibbs.net
- Mythological Africans Website: https://www.mythologicalafricans.com/
- Follow Mythological Africans on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mythicafricans
- Follow Laura Gibbs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OnlineCrsLady
- Follow Helen Nde on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hm_nde
- Helen collaborated with PBS on Adze: the Shapeshifting Firefly from West Africa | Monstrum
- Helen’s favorites: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zMNlSe6wvdhuAYlxhZBas1F58LIwutoMsjrY7yaa1pY/edit#slide=id.gf3b818d9de_0_8
- Laura’s Favorites: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zMNlSe6wvdhuAYlxhZBas1F58LIwutoMsjrY7yaa1pY/edit#slide=id.g11d78fb70d4_1_30
- Learn more and participate in the Anansi Book Club: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10Sc9MrDExR8ZUsI6ITxZyzvlzG3Uz1FEqw_CzUruQ3I
Session 4: Television as Data: Opening TV News for Deep Analysis and New Forms of Interactive Search
April 13
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Jason Scott’s Intro:
- Computers on Tape (Not Computer Tapes): https://archive.org/details/tapecomputers
- Stairway to Stardom: https://archive.org/details/stairwaytostardom
- Community Media Archive: https://archive.org/details/community_media
Links shared:
- FedFlix: https://archive.org/details/FedFlix - 6,000 videos copied from government archives
- Television News Archive
- Selected press and other reports utilizing TV News Archive
- The GDELT Project
- GDELT’s Television Explorer: caption search & results visualizations
- GDELT’s AI Television Explorer: search captions, OCR, ASR, visual entities
- Fact checked segments in TV News Archive, also downloadable in CSV format
- Understanding 9/11: archive of TV news, 19-channels, 7-days from 9/11/01
- 2016 Political TV Ad Archive
- Donald Trump Archive
- Vanderbilt Television News Archive
- UCLA’s TV News Archive “NewsScape”
- Marion Stokes TV News Archive background
- Marion Stokes documentary: “Recorder, the Marion Stokes Project”
- TV News Archive team
- TV Kitchen, open source tool to get data out of local TV streams–starting with captions (founded by TV News Archive alumni)
- Links from presentation (in order):
- Animated map of locations mentioned in the TV Archive 2009-2016.
- State Of the Union audio fingerprinting.
- Comparing radio and television news coverage through ngrams.
- TV Explorer.
- TV AI Explorer.
- Downloadable Google Cloud Video JSON annotations (including OCR) for ABC, CBS and NBC evening news broadcasts 2010-present and BBC, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News 2020-present.
- Constructing a chronology of doctors on television news.
- Tracking CNN’s Covid-19 dashboard through onscreen text search.
- Bookcases on television news.
- Cataloging mask imagery on television news.
- Golden retriever detector for television news.
- Detecting advertising on television news using Caption Mode.
- Audio analysis of television news.
- Comparing human and machine transcription using speech recognition.
- Full dataset of Donald Trump tweets on television news. More detail on how it was compiled.
- First Draft report on Donald Trump tweets and election information.
- Using Google’s Cloud Vision API to perform a reverse image search over television news to contextualize broadcasts by connecting them to online news.
- Contextualizing an entire news broadcast through reverse image search.
- Visualizing entity graphs.
- Using Google’s Cloud Inference API to contextualize entities across the news.
- Identifying breaking news stories across the world using Google’s Timeseries Insights API.
- Exploring Q&A through dependency parses.
- Exploring contested narratives through dependency parses.
- Fact checking television news through embeddings.
- Clustering the news through embeddings.
- Identifying the first glimmers of Covid-19.
- All GDELT datasets.
- More on GDELT’s vision of understanding the world through news.
Session 5: Analyzing Biodiversity Literature at Scale
April 27
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Jason Scott’s intro:
- Chris Cromwell Rare Reel to Reel Tapes: https://archive.org/details/chriscromwelltapes
- Classic 1940’s TV: https://archive.org/details/classic_tv_1940s
- Lego Manuals & Catalogs: https://archive.org/details/legomanuals
Links shared:
- Browse the Biodiversity Heritage Library: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/
- Slides from JJ & Martin available here
- All that's best in chrysanthemums for 1940: https://archive.org/details/CAT31356347
- BHL blog about Wikipedia integration: https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2012/03/linking-to-biodiversity-heritage-library-from-wikipedia.html
- The Semantic Web: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-semantic-web/
- BHL Flickr stream: https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary
- Wikidata main page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page
- Volunteer for a BHL Citizen Science Project: https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org/get-involved/volunteer/
- Become a Wikidatan and join WikiProject_BHL: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_BHL
- Donate to BHL: https://library.si.edu/donate/bhl-donation
- Crowdsourcing transcription platforms include the Smithsonian Transcription Center https://transcription.si.edu and Digivol https://digivol.ala.org.au/
Session 6: Lightning Talks
May 11
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List of speakers & descriptions of each talk: http://blog.archive.org/2022/05/05/new-speakers-announced-for-next-weeks-lightning-talks/
Talks & Links shared:
- Forgotten Histories of the Mid-Century Coding Bootcamp, Kate Miltner (University of Edinburgh)
- Japan As They Saw It (video), Tom Gally (University of Tokyo)
- Japan As They Saw It on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/japan-as-they-saw-it
- The Bibliography of Life, Rod Page (University of Glasgow)
- Wikidata and the bibliography of life: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.04.442638
- Taxonomy archive: https://archive.org/details/taxonomyarchive
- A List of Everything Cool: https://alec-demo.herokuapp.com
- Q&A #1
- More Than Words: Fed Chairs’ Communication During Congressional Testimonies, Michelle Alexopoulos (University of Toronto)
- More Than Words: Fed Chairs’ Communication During Congressional Testimonies: https://www.bankofcanada.ca/2022/05/staff-working-paper-2022-20/
- WARC Collection Summarization, Sawood Alam (Internet Archive)
- CDX Summary tool is open-source: https://github.com/internetarchive/cdx-summary
- Learn more about Sawood in this recent profile on our blog: http://blog.archive.org/2022/04/08/meet-the-librarians-sawood-alam-wayback-machine/
- If you'd like to learn HTTP from Sawood, he'll be teaching CS 431/531 Web Server Design for us next Fall. Remote enrollment is possible. contact us for more info: https://twitter.com/phonedude_mln/status/1524085190640943106
- Automatic scanning with an Internet Archive TT scanner, Art Rhyno (University of Windsor)
- View Art’s video on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/autoTT
- Q&A #2
- Automated Hashtag Hierarchy Generation Using Community Detection and the Shannon Diversity Index, Spencer Torene (Thomson Reuters Special Services, LLC)
- My Internet Archive Enabled Journey As A Digital Humanities Citizen Scientist, Jim Salmons
- View Jim’s video on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/salmons_IA-liblab-lightning-talk
- A Softalk Era Tale About Jim's 1st 'Portable' Personal Computer: https://bit.ly/Softrek1982
- Other digital humanities projects:
- More on Our GitHub Copilot for Disabled Developers Project: https://bit.ly/Copilot4DisDev
- More on Our Citizen Scientist Advocacy: https://bit.ly/CitizenScientistsTimeMachine
- Web and cities: (early internet) geographies through the lenses of the Internet Archive, Emmanouil Tranos (University of Bristol)
- JISC UK Web Domain Dataset (1996-2013) https://data.webarchive.org.uk/opendata/ukwa.ds.2/
- https://etranos.info/
- Forgotten Novels of the 19th Century, Tom Gally (University of Tokyo)
- Blog post about the project: http://blog.archive.org/2021/07/14/forgotten-novels-of-the-19th-century/
- View Tom’s video on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/forgotten-novels-of-the-19th-century