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Resurrecting My Revolution

Using Social Link Neighborhood in Bringing Context to the Disappearing Web

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Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (TPDL 2013)

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In previous work we reported that resources linked in tweets disappeared at the rate of 11% in the first year followed by 7.3% each year afterwards. We also found that in the first year 6.7%, and 14.6% in each subsequent year, of the resources were archived in public web archives. In this paper we revisit the same dataset of tweets and find that our prior model still holds and the calculated error for estimating percentages missing was about 4%, but we found the rate of archiving produced a higher error of about 11.5%. We also discovered that resources have disappeared from the archives themselves (7.89%) as well as reappeared on the live web after being declared missing (6.54%). We have also tested the availability of the tweets themselves and found that 10.34% have disappeared from the live web. To mitigate the loss of resources on the live web, we propose the use of a “tweet signature”. Using the Topsy API, we extract the top five most frequent terms from the union of all tweets about a resource, and use these five terms as a query to Google. We found that using tweet signatures results in discovering replacement resources with 70+% textual similarity to the missing resource 41% of the time.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, 23529, USA

    Hany M. Salaheldeen & Michael L. Nelson

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  1. Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491, Trondheim, Norway

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  2. Department of Archives and Library Science, Ionian University, 49100, Corfu, Greece

    Christos Papatheodorou

  3. Department of Library Information and Archive Sciences, University of Malta, MSD2280, Msida, Malta

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  4. Library and Information Center, University of Patras, 26504, Patras, Greece

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Salaheldeen, H.M., Nelson, M.L. (2013). Resurrecting My Revolution. In: Aalberg, T., Papatheodorou, C., Dobreva, M., Tsakonas, G., Farrugia, C.J. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. TPDL 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8092. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40501-3_34

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