Publications

Research Area: Digital Preservation

Title: Repository Replication Using NNTP and SMTP

J.A. Smith, M. Klein, and M.L. Nelson. Proceedings of European Conference on Digital Libraries. Alicante, Spain. September 2006.

Summary:
We present the results of a feasibility study using shared, existing, network-accessible infrastructure for repository replication. We utilize the...
Title: Repository replication using SMTP and NNTP

M.L. Nelson, J.A. Smith, and M. Klein. Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Digital Government Research. May 2006.

Summary:
We describe our progress on NSF ISS 0455997, "Shared Infrastructure Preservation Models". The focus of our efforts is to evaluate different...
Title: A Quantitative Evaluation of Dissemination-Time Preservation Metadata

J.A. Smith and M.L. Nelson. Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Digital Libraries. September 2008.

Summary:
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...

Research Area: Other Topics

Title: EMU: The Emory User Behavior Data Management System for Automatic Library Search Evaluation

Q. Guo, R.P. Kelly, S. Deemer, A. Murphy, J.A. Smith, and E. Agichtein. Proceedings of JCDL 2009. June 2009.

Summary:
We describe EMU, a system for collecting, managing, and mining the behavior data collected in the Emory libraries search system. We describe the...
Title: Toward alternative metrics of journal impact: A comparison of download and citation data

J. Bollen, H. Van de Sompel, J.A. Smith, and R. Luce. International Journal of Information Processing and Management. December 2005.

Summary:
We generated networks of journal relationships from citation and download data, and determined journal impact rankings from these networks using a...

Research Area: Web Crawlers & The Gray Web

Title: Site Design Impact on Robots: An Examination of Search Engine Crawler Behavior at Deep and Wide Websites

J.A. Smith and M.L. Nelson. D-Lib Magazine. March/April 2008.

Summary:
Conventional wisdom holds that search engines "prefer" sites that are wide rather than deep, and that having a site index will result in...
Title: Lazy Preservation: Reconstructing Websites for the Lazy Webmaster.

F. McCown, J.A. Smith, M.L. Nelson, and J. Bollen. Proceedings of ACM WIDM 2006. November 2006

Summary:
Backup of websites is often not considered until after a catastrophic event has occurred to either the website or its webmaster. We introduce “lazy...
Title: Observed Web Robot Behavior On Decaying Web Subsites

J.A. Smith, F. McCown, and M.L. Nelson. D-Lib Magazine. February 2006.

Summary:
We describe the observed crawling patterns of various search engines (including Google, Yahoo and MSN) as they traverse a series of web subsites...