The document is an introduction to web archiving by Sawood Alam from Old Dominion University, covering what archives and web archiving are, their significance, and the associated challenges. It discusses various efforts and tools for web archiving, his research focus on 'archive x-ray,' and potential research opportunities in the field. Additionally, it offers guidance for studying abroad in higher education.

1. Web Archiving
A Brief Introduction
Sawood Alam
Department of Computer Science
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia - 23529

2. About Me
● BTech, Jamia Millia Islamia, India, 2008
● MSc, Old Dominion University, USA, 2013
● PhD, Old Dominion University, USA, Current
Lexical Signature
Web, Digital Library, Web Archiving, Ruby on Rails, PHP,
XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, ExtJS, Urdu, RTL and Linux.
Sawood Alam

3. Agenda
● What is an archive?
● What is Web archiving?
● Why do we care about archiving?
● Issues and challenges
● Various archiving efforts
● Tools and techniques
● WSDL research group
● My research: Archive X-Ray!
● Research opportunities
● Higher education: how to study abroad?

4. What is an Archive?
● Accumulation of historical records
● Long term storage and preservation
● Less frequently used
● Physical or digital

5. What is Web Archiving?
● Periodic snapshots of web pages
● Preserving important events on the Web
● Making archived content accessible

6. Why do We Care Archiving?
● To preserve the history
● To tell a story
● For evidence
● For backup
● For personal satisfaction
Web contents decay rapidly!

7. Issues and Challenges
● Crawling
● Storage
● Retrieval
● Replay
● Accessibility
● Completeness
● Accuracy
● Credibility

8. Web Archiving Efforts
● Internet Archive
● Archive-It
● Wikipedia
● UK Web Archive
● Various national and non-profit archives
● Film, music and other multimedia archives
● Scholarly archives
● Personal archiving

9. Tools and Techniques
● Heritrix
● WGet
● cURL
● OpenWayback
● Memento
● CarbonDate
● Warrick
● Synchronicity
● Preserve Me!
● WARCreate and WAIL

10. WSDL Research Group
● Web Science and Digital Libraries
Research Group
● Home Page: ws-dl.cs.odu.edu
● Blog: ws-dl.blogspot.com
● Twitter: @WebSciDL
● Flickr: flickr.com/photos/124419986@N07

11. WSDL Research Group

12. Archive X-Ray!
● How much of the Web is archived?
● Profiling various archive services
● Predicting what they contain
● Routing Memento aggregator queries

13. Research Opportunities
● Information retrieval
● Information visualization
● Client and server side archiving
● Archiving dynamic content
● Distributed archiving
● Discovering alternate long term archiving
techniques
● Predicting “Important” events on the Web
and archiving them timely

14. Higher Education Abroad
● Select your field of interest
● Find potential universities in your field
● Approach professors
● Approach alumni
● GRE and TOEFL
● Expenses and funding options
○ Scholarship
○ Assistantship and on-campus jobs
○ Education loan and self financing

15. Sawood Alam
Department of Computer Science
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia - 23529
salam@cs.odu.edu
ibnesayeed@gmail.com
Twitter: @ibnesayeed
www.cs.odu.edu/~salam