Not all mementos are created equal: Measuring the impact of missing resources

JF Brunelle, M Kelly, H SalahEldeen… - International Journal on …, 2015 - Springer
Web archives do not always capture every resource on every page that they attempt to
archive. This results in archived pages missing a portion of their embedded resources …

The impact of JavaScript on archivability

JF Brunelle, M Kelly, MC Weigle, ML Nelson - International Journal on …, 2016 - Springer
As web technologies evolve, web archivists work to adapt so that digital history is preserved.
Recent advances in web technologies have introduced client-side executed scripts (Ajax) …

Client-side reconstruction of composite mementos using serviceworker

S Alam, M Kelly, MC Weigle… - 2017 ACM/IEEE Joint …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We use the ServiceWorker (SW) API to intercept HTTP requests for embedded resources
and reconstruct Composite Mementos without the need for conventional URL rewriting …

To re-experience the web: A framework for the transformation and replay of archived web pages

J Berlin, M Kelly, ML Nelson, MC Weigle - ACM Transactions on the Web, 2023 - dl.acm.org
When replaying an archived web page, or memento, the fundamental expectation is that the
page should be viewable and function exactly as it did at the archival time. However, this …

On the change in archivability of websites over time

M Kelly, JF Brunelle, MC Weigle, ML Nelson - Research and Advanced …, 2013 - Springer
As web technologies evolve, web archivists work to keep up so that our digital history is
preserved. Recent advances in web technologies have introduced client-side executed …

Archival crawlers and JavaScript: discover more stuff but crawl more slowly

JF Brunelle, MC Weigle… - 2017 ACM/IEEE Joint …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The web is today's primary publication medium, making web archiving an important activity
for historical and analytical purposes. Web pages are increasingly interactive, resulting in …

Saving the web: Facets of web archiving in everyday practice

JR Ogden - 2020 - eprints.soton.ac.uk
This thesis makes visible the work of archiving the Web. It demonstrates the growing role of
web archives (WAs) in the circulation of information and culture online, and emphasises the …

Finding Traces in YouTube's Living Archive: Exploring Informal Archival Practices

S Aasman - Journal of Media History, 2019 - research.rug.nl
This article addresses the challenges that media historians face when they aim to
reconstruct the early history of YouTube. Since the platform is constantly adapting its …

Archiving deferred representations using a two-tiered crawling approach

JF Brunelle, MC Weigle, ML Nelson - arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.02315, 2015 - arxiv.org
Web resources are increasingly interactive, resulting in resources that are increasingly
difficult to archive. The archival difficulty is based on the use of client-side technologies (eg …

The archival acid test: Evaluating archive performance on advanced HTML and JavaScript

M Kelly, ML Nelson, MC Weigle - IEEE/ACM Joint Conference …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When preserving web pages, archival crawlers sometimes produce a result that varies from
what an end-user expects. To quantitatively evaluate the degree to which an archival …