http://liwa-project.eu/index.php/news/ en nathalie@europarchive.org Copyright 2010 2010-07-06T05:49:16+01:00 http://liwa-project.eu/index.php/news/liwa_project_listed_on_epracticeeu/ http://liwa-project.eu/index.php/news/liwa_project_listed_on_epracticeeu/#When:04:49:16Z ePractice.eu is a new service that merges the eGovernment Observatory with the Good Practice Framework and allows to meet people, share experience and learn in public e-domains. The LiWA Project is now listed in the cases of the eGovernment domain . General 2010-07-06T04:49:16+01:00 http://liwa-project.eu/index.php/news/liwa_technologies_first_release/ http://liwa-project.eu/index.php/news/liwa_technologies_first_release/#When:10:45:58Z LiWA partners have been busy the last 2 years developing new Web Archiving technology within the LiWA project.  They are now pleased to announce the release in open-source of several components, as part of the “liwa-technologies” project on Google code: http://code.google.com/p/liwa-technologies/. You are all welcome to download and try out the plug-in dedicated to the streaming video content, the Rich Media Capture module: http://code.google.com/p/liwa-technologies/source/browse/rich-media-capture http://code.google.com/p/liwa-technologies/downloads/detail?name=rich-media-capture-plugin-1.0.jar This is still an experimental version of the software, therefore your feedback and comments will be greatly appreciated, helping us to improve the documentation and the usability of the module. More LiWA tools will be available soon, please stay tuned for the next releases. General, Events 2010-06-14T10:45:58+01:00 http://liwa-project.eu/index.php/news/using_word_sense_discrimination_on_historic_document_collections/ http://liwa-project.eu/index.php/news/using_word_sense_discrimination_on_historic_document_collections/#When:04:45:39Z The paper “Using Word Sense Discrimination on Historic Document Collections” has been accepted for the 10th ACM/IEEE JCDL The paper entitled “Using Word Sense Discrimination on Historic Document Collections” by Nina Tahmasebi, Kai Niklas, Thomas Theuerkauf and Thomas Risse has been accepted in the 10th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. The paper evaluates word sense discrimination on historic document collections to investigate if word senses can be found automatically using modern technology applied on historic data. The paper also investigates which impact OCR errors, present in scanned historic documents, have on finding word senses in an automatic way. Finding word senses in an automatic way is the first step towards detecting terminology evolution and hence an important step in our research. Nina Tahmasebi will present the paper on June 22nd, 2010 at JCDL which is held in conjunction with ICADL in Surfers Paradise (Gold Coast, Australia). Semantic Evolution, General, Events 2010-04-20T04:45:39+01:00 http://liwa-project.eu/index.php/news/update_on_liwa_project_to_gi_working_group/ http://liwa-project.eu/index.php/news/update_on_liwa_project_to_gi_working_group/#When:08:51:04Z Thomas Risse presented Liwa at the meeting the GI Working Group on Digital Libraries Thomas Risse presented the members of the GI Working Group on Digital Libraries during their bi-annual meeting on Tuesday, 14.4.2010 an update on the activities and results of the LiWA project. General 2010-04-15T08:51:04+01:00 http://liwa-project.eu/index.php/news/iwaw_proceedings_online/ http://liwa-project.eu/index.php/news/iwaw_proceedings_online/#When:07:03:09Z IWAW09 took take place the 30th of September and 1st of October 2009, in conjunction with ECDL in Corfu (Greece). The proceedings are now available online. Around 40 participants attended IWAW2009, which took place on Sep. 30 / Oct. 1 2009, in conjunction with ECDL in Corfu (Greece). The workshop provided a comprehensive overview on active research and practice on the preservation of the Web. This year’s workshop also addressed several new approaches and research (from virtual worlds preservation to temporal dimension of Web Archives) as well as practical issues addressed by Archiving institutions, specifically with respect to managing the storage of large volumes of digital material. In this context, a special Session was devoted to the WARC storage format, which has been accepted as a new ISO standard (ISO 28500:2009), as well as emerging tool support to handle these container objects.  In general, scalability issues and managing large-volume crawls were topics of intensive discussions, based on the increasing body of experience available in numerous institutions by now, running a series of Web archiving activities in a range of different configurations. Archive Fidelity, Temporal Coherence, Semantic Evolution, Social Web, General, Events 2009-11-13T07:03:09+01:00 http://liwa-project.eu/index.php/news/talk_about_turning_pure_web_page_storages_into_living_web_archives_at_cultu/ http://liwa-project.eu/index.php/news/talk_about_turning_pure_web_page_storages_into_living_web_archives_at_cultu/#When:11:09:55Z The LiWA applications and its R&D challenges will be presented at the Conference “Cultural Heritage on line Empowering users: an active role for user communities” at Florence, Italy on the 15th and 16th of December, 2009 Web content plays an increasingly important role in the knowledge-based society, and the preservation and long-term accessibility of Web history has high value (e.g., for scholarly studies, market analyses, intellectual property disputes, etc.). There is strongly growing interest in its preservation by libraries and archival organizations as well as emerging industrial services. Web content characteristics (high dynamics, volatility, contributor and format variety) make adequate Web archiving a challenge. LiWA will look beyond the pure “freezing” of Web content snapshots for a long time, transforming pure snapshot storage into a “Living” Web Archive. In order to create Living Web Archives, the LiWA project will address R&D challenges in the three areas: Archive Fidelity, Archive coherence and Archive interpretability. The results of the project will be demonstrated within two application scenarios namely “Streaming Archive” and “Social Web Archive”. The Streaming Archive application will showcase the building of an audio-visual Web archive and how audio and video broadcast related web information can be preserved. The Social Web application will demonstrate how web archives can capture the dynamics and the different types of user interaction of the social web. Archive Fidelity, Temporal Coherence, Social Web, Rich Media, General, Events 2009-10-20T11:09:55+01:00 http://liwa-project.eu/index.php/news/liwa_second_newsletter_published/ http://liwa-project.eu/index.php/news/liwa_second_newsletter_published/#When:14:01:06Z The LiWA Newsletter No2 is now available. For this second Newsletter, focus has been given on Streaming and Social Web applications. Learn more by reading the presentation of the LiWA partners involved in the development of each application. Social Web, General, Events 2009-07-02T14:01:06+01:00 http://liwa-project.eu/index.php/news/talk_from_web_page_storages_to_living_web_archive_at_london/ http://liwa-project.eu/index.php/news/talk_from_web_page_storages_to_living_web_archive_at_london/#When:10:39:43Z Dr. Thomas Risse (L3S) will give a talk at the “JISC, the DPC and the UK Web Archiving Consortium Workshop”, at the The British Library Conference Centre in London, on July 21st. The paper on “From Web page storages to Living Web Archive” will be presented by Dr. Thomas Risse, at the JISC, the DPC and the UK Web Archiving Consortium Workshop which will take place at The British Library Conference Centre in London, on July 21st. Archive Fidelity, Temporal Coherence, General, Events 2009-06-17T10:39:43+01:00 http://liwa-project.eu/index.php/news/bridging_the_terminology_gap_in_web_archive_search/ http://liwa-project.eu/index.php/news/bridging_the_terminology_gap_in_web_archive_search/#When:06:20:45Z A paper on dealing with terminology evolution in web archives has been accepted in the 12th International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB 2009) The paper entitled ’Bridging the Terminology Gap in Web Archive Search’ by Klaus Berberich, Srikanta Bedathur, Mauro Sozio, and Gerhard Weikum has been accepted in the 12th International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB 2009). The paper proposes a method to find query reformulations that paraphrase users’ information needs using past terminology. Such query reformulations are key to retrieving old but highly relevant documents in web archives that were written using now outdated terminology. Klaus Berberich will present the paper on June 28th, 2009 at WebDB 2009, which is held in conjunction with SIGMOD 2009 in Providence (Rhode Island, USA). Semantic Evolution, General, Events 2009-06-08T06:20:45+01:00 http://liwa-project.eu/index.php/news/sharc_framework_for_quality_conscious_web_archiving/ http://liwa-project.eu/index.php/news/sharc_framework_for_quality_conscious_web_archiving/#When:09:52:54Z A paper on quality-conscious web archiving has been accepted in the 35th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2009) The paper on quality-conscious web archiving by Dimitar Denev, Arturas Mazeika, Marc Spaniol, and Gerhard Weikum has been accepted for presentation to the 35th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2009). The conference takes place on 24-28 August in Lyon, France. The paper presents the SHARC framework for assessing the data quality in Web archives and for tuning capturing strategies towards better quality with given resources. The paper defines quality measures, characterise their properties, and derives a suite of quality-conscious scheduling strategies for archive crawling. Temporal Coherence, General, Events 2009-05-29T09:52:54+01:00