This is a presentation of social media storytelling tools that were covered in a blog post written for the Web Science and Digital Libraries research group: http://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2017/08/2017-08-11-where-can-we-post-stories.html

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Where Can We Post
Stories
Summarizing Web
Archive
Collections?
Shawn M. Jones
Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

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Web Archive Collections are Invaluable
 Museums, libraries, researchers,
journalists, and other
organizations use tools like
Archive-It to create collections of
archived web pages, or
mementos
 Researchers will often create
collections of news articles about
an event for use later.
 What happens when someone
wants to use that collection
later?
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There are ~17
Archive-It collections
about human rights
How are they different
from each other?
Which one is best for my
needs?

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Idea: Use interface people already know how to use to
summarize web archive collections
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Archived collectionsStorytelling services
Archived enriched
stories

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The Dark and Stormy Archives (DSA) framework
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Establish a
baseline
Reduce the candidate
pool of archived
pages
Select good
representative
pages
Characteristics of
human-generated
Stories
Characteristics of
Archive-It
collections
Exclude duplicates
Exclude off-topic pages
Exclude non-English Language
Dynamically slice the collection
Cluster the pages
in each slice
Select high-
quality pages
from each cluster
Order pages
by time
Visualize
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BQcpj7ACMAAHRp4.
jpg
Yasmin AlNoamany, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L.
Nelson. 2017. Generating Stories From Archived
Collections. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Web
Science Conference (WebSci '17). ACM, New York, NY,
USA, 309-318. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1145/3091478.3091508

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Dark and Stormy Archives (DSA) Framework
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Characteristicsof
human-generated
Stories
Characteristicsof
Archive-It
collections
Excludeduplicates
Excludeoff-topicpages
Excludenon-EnglishLanguage
Dynamicallyslicethecollection
Clusterthepages
ineachslice
Selecthigh-quality
pagesfromeach
cluster
Orderpages
bytime
Visualize
Out comes a story of ~28 links
summarizing that collection.
In goes an Archive-It
collection.
The DSA finds the best links
from the collection.

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Storytelling of Links Uses Social Cards
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https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Old
+Dominion+University,+Norfolk,+VA/
Los+Alamos+National+Laboratory,+
New+Mexico/@35.3644614,-
109.356967,4z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13
!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x89ba99ad24ba
3945:0xcd2bdc432c4e4bac!2m2!1d-
76.3067676!2d36.8855515!1m5!1m1
!1s0x87181246af22e765:0x7f5a9017
0c5df1b4!2m2!1d-
106.287162!2d35.8440582
VS
URI Social Card

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Storytelling of Links Uses Social Cards
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https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Old
+Dominion+University,+Norfolk,+VA/
Los+Alamos+National+Laboratory,+
New+Mexico/@35.3644614,-
109.356967,4z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13
!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x89ba99ad24ba
3945:0xcd2bdc432c4e4bac!2m2!1d-
76.3067676!2d36.8855515!1m5!1m1
!1s0x87181246af22e765:0x7f5a9017
0c5df1b4!2m2!1d-
106.287162!2d35.8440582
VS
URI Social Card
Social cards are easier for humans to
understand at a glance.

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Why Storytelling With Social Cards Works
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Social Cards on a platform all present the
same fields in the same locations.
Reading down,
we can easily
watch the story
unfold.

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Which Platforms Support Our
Storytelling Technique?
Characteristicsof
human-generated
Stories
Characteristicsof
Archive-It
collections
Exclude duplicates
Exclude off-topic pages
Exclude non-English Language
Dynamically slice the collection
Cluster the pages
in each slice
Select high-
quality pages
from each cluster
Order pages
by time
Visualize

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Focusing on Customer Engagement or Corporate
Website Development
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These tools, while useful for curation are not suitable for the DSA framework because
storytelling is not their primary focus.

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Focusing on the Present
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Platforms that only focus on the present versions of links are, by their nature, not suitable for use with
Archived Collections.
Paper.li on June 4, 2017 and then on June 5, 2017.

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Making It Difficult To Share
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Sharing is key to using a platform for storytelling.
If one can only share with a small group, or if other uses must pay to
see shared content, then the platform is not suitable for sharing
archived collections.

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Not Generating Social Cards
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No Social Cards on
Instagram

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For Want of Automation
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Neither of these display a social card for http://www.history.com/topics/boston-marathon-bombings
APIs in other services allow us to configure the social card and address these issues.
Bag The Web
Symbaloo

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Making It Difficult to Understand the Order of Events
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If the social card sizes are all different or their order is inconsistent:
• Where does the story start?
• In what direction is the flow? What item is next?

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Making It Difficult to Understand the Order of Events:
Pinterest
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Pinterest also does not work with all URIs.
For the next item in
the story, do I look
down or do I look
right?
Pinterest changes
the size of the social
cards based on the
size of the image,
further complicating
one’s understanding
of the flow of the
story.

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Making It Difficult to Understand the Order of Events:
Google+
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VS
The resolution of the web browser can change the flow of the story.
VS

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Candidate Tools for Storytelling with Mementos
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Candidate Tools for Storytelling with Mementos:
Facebook
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Sometimes Facebook fails to generate a social card,
but the API can be used to supply additional
information to the comment in order to overcome this.
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=162904537614238&id=128530177718341
Creating a post
as a collection
and using
comments as
individual items in
the collection, we
can create a
story.

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Candidate Tools for Storytelling with Mementos: Tumblr
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Tumblr allows one to choose Link as the
type of post, for which it will generate a
social card.
Posts can be tied together with a
hashtag that is specific to a Tumblr blog,
thus creating a collection.
https://aitstories.tumblr.com/tagged/aitstoriesboston
marathon2013%403649spst0s

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Candidate Tools for Storytelling with Mementos:
Twitter Moments
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Twitter Moments provides
the ability to tell visually
compelling stories out of
tweets.
Unfortunately, it does not
always generate social
cards, but additional
information can be
supplied via the API to
augment this
shortcoming.
https://twitter.com/i/moments/895050092792561665

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Candidate Tools for Storytelling with Mementos: Storify
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https://storify.com/ait_stories/3649SPST0s
Storify was the tool originally chosen for use with
the DSA.

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For More Information
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http://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2017/08/2017-08-11-where-can-we-post-stories.html