The Crowd & the Library

Presentation for the 2012 International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly. This is the presentation used during the crowdsourcing workshop, including the logic behind crowdsourcing and prompts for discussion on how to best attract and utilize crowdsourced volunteers.
Date: May 4, 2012
Creator: Owens, Trevor
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Warcbase: Building a Scalable Web Archiving Platform on Hadoop and HBase

Presentation for the 2015 International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly. This presentation discusses the development of Warcbase as a tool to support exploration and discovery in web archives.
Date: April 28, 2015
Creator: Lin, Jimmy
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

WARCs, WATs, and wgets (oh my): Opportunity and Challenge for a Historian Amongst Three Types of Web Archives

Presentation for the 2015 International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly. This presentation discusses the importance of web archives for future historical research.
Date: April 28, 2015
Creator: Milligan, Ian
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Crowdsourcing Workshop & Use Cases (open access)

Crowdsourcing Workshop & Use Cases

This report describes a crowdsourcing workshop at the 2012 International Internet Preservation Coalition General Assembly. This report contains a workshop report, the discussion paper "Can Crowdsourcing Play a Role in Archiving the Web?, workshop schedule, a list of resources, questions to ask of crowdsourcing sites, crowdsourcing use case templates, and the article "The Crowd & the Library: The Agony and Exstasy of 'Crowdsourcing' Our Cultural Heritage."
Date: May 4, 2012
Creator: Pennock, Maureen E.; Hockx-Yu, Helen & Owens, Trevor
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library