On June 16-23 this year’s ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2016) took place in Newark, New Jersey. JCDL is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues. The L3S was involved in this important event with two research paper presentations by Helge Holzmann, showing results of …
Limited search and access patterns over Web archives have been well documented. One of the key reasons is the lack of understanding of the user access patterns over such collections, which in turn is attributed to the lack of effective search interfaces. Current search interfaces for Web archives are (a) either purely navigational or (b) …
When exploring news archives, a key requirement of historians is to get an overview of their search results initially. To address this problem we developed a novel retrieval model – HistDiv – which ranks articles according to historical relevance. The Archive Exploration Engine (ArchEE) system was built to showcase how HistDiv and various other state-of-the-art …
We are delighted to announce the first public release of our ALEXANDRIA Internet Archive Search Prototype: http://alexandria-project.eu/archivesearch/ ArchiveSearch provides, for the first time, entity based search and exploration functionalities into the Web Archive of the Internet Archive allowing you to use (most of) the 1.9 million concepts of the German Wikipedia or (most of) the …
Foundations for Temporal Retrieval, Exploration and Analytics in Web Archives 2./3. November 2015 L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany Significant parts of our cultural heritage are produced on the Web, yet only insufficient opportunities exist for accessing and exploring the past of the Web. While the easy accessibility to the current Web is a good baseline, …
The work in this project is funded by the European Research Council under the EU 7th Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) / ERC 339233