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Research Area: CRATE

  • CRATE: A Simple Model for Self-Describing Web Resources.

    J.A. Smith and M.L. Nelson. Proceedings of the 7th International Web Archiving Workshop IWAW'07. June 2007.

    If not for the Internet Archive’s efforts to store periodic snapshots of the web, many sites would not have any preservation prospects at all. The...
  • Efficient, Automatic Web Harvesting

    M.L. Nelson, J.A. Smith, I. Garcia del Campo, H. Van de Sompel and X. Liu. Proceedings of ACM WIDM 2006.

    There are two problems associated with conventional web crawling techniques: a crawler cannot know if all resources at a non-trivial web site...
  • A Quantitative Evaluation of Dissemination-Time Preservation Metadata

    J.A. Smith and M.L. Nelson. Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL'08). Aarhus, Denmark. September, 2008.

    One of many challenges facing web preservation efforts is the lack of metadata available for web resources. In prior work, we proposed a model that...
  • Generating Best Effort Preservation Metadata for Web Resources at Time of Dissemination

    J.A. Smith and M.L. Nelson. Proceedings of JCDL 2007. Vancouver, BC, Canada. June 2007.

    HTTP and MIME, while sufficient for contemporary web page access, do not provide enough forensic information to enable the long-term preservation...
  • Using OAI-PMH Resource Harvesting and MPEG-21 DIDL for Digital Preservation

    J.A. Smith and M.L. Nelson. 2nd International Conference on Open Repositories. San Antonio, TX, USA. January, 2007.

    We propose involving the web server in the preservation process through “mod_oai”, an Apache module that (1) addresses the counting problem by using...

Research Area: Digital Preservation

  • Creating Preservation-Ready Web Resources

    J.A. Smith and M.L. Nelson. D-Lib Magazine. January/February 2008.

    There are innumerable departmental, community, and personal web sites worthy of long-term preservation but proportionally fewer archivists available...
  • Integrating Preservation Functions into the Web Server

    J.A. Smith. Dissertation (Ph. D., Computer Science). Old Dominion University. June, 2008.

    Digital preservation of the World Wide Web poses unique challenges, different from the preserva- tion issues facing professional Digital Libraries...
  • Using The Web Infrastructure To Preserve Web Pages

    M.L. Nelson, F. McCown, J.A. Smith, and M. Klein. International Journal on Digital Libraries. July, 2007.

    To date, most of the focus regarding digital preservation has been on replicating copies of the resources to be preserved from the “living web” and...
  • Reconstructing Websites for the Lazy Webmaster

    F. McCown, J.A. Smith, M.L. Nelson, and J. Bollen. Technical Report. Old Dominion University. December 2005.

    Backup or preservation of websites is often not considered until after a catastrophic event has occurred. In the face of complete website loss,...
  • How Much Preservation Do I Get If I Do Absolutely Nothing?

    M. Klein, F. McCown, J.A. Smith, and M.L. Nelson. Proceedings of Media Production 2006. Berlin, 2007.

    To date, most of the focus regarding digital preservation has been on removing copies of the resources to be preserved from the “living web” and...