Preprint: “MementoEmbed and Raintale for Web Archive Storytelling”
The following article (preprint) was recently shared on arXiv.
Title
MementoEmbed and Raintale for Web Archive Storytelling
Authors
Shawn M. Jones
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Martin Klein
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Michele C. Weigle
Old Dominion University
Michael L. Nelson
Old Dominion University
Source
via arXiv arXiv:2008.00137
Abstract
For traditional library collections, archivists can select a representative sample from a collection and display it in a featured physical or digital library space. Web archive collections may consist of thousands of archived pages, or mementos. How should an archivist display this sample to drive visitors to their collection? Search engines and social media platforms often represent web pages as cards consisting of text snippets, titles, and images. Web storytelling is a popular method for grouping these cards in order to summarize a topic. Unfortunately, social media platforms are not archive-aware and fail to consistently create a good experience for mementos. They also allow no UI alterations for their cards. Thus, we created MementoEmbed to generate cards for individual mementos and Raintale for creating entire stories that archivists can export to a variety of formats.
Direct to Full Text Article
54 pages; PDF.
Resources
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