Making Changes in Webpages Discoverable: A Change-Text Search Interface for Web Archives
Making Changes in Webpages Discoverable: A Change-Text Search Interface for Web Archives
Webpages change over time, and web archives hold copies of historical versions of webpages. Users of web archives, such as journalists, want to find and view changes on webpages over time. However, the current search interfaces for web archives do not support this task. For the web archives that include a full-text search feature, multiple versions of the same webpage that match the search query are shown individually without enumerating changes, or are grouped together in a way that hides changes. We present a change text search engine that allows users to find changes in webpages. We describe the implementation of the search engine backend and frontend, including a tool that allows users to view the changes between two webpage versions in context as an animation. We evaluate the search engine with U.S. federal environmental webpages that changed between 2016 and 2020. The change text search results page can clearly show when terms and phrases were added or removed from webpages. The inverted index can also be queried to identify salient and frequently deleted terms in a corpus.
In Proceedings of JCDL 2023; 20 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables
- Old Dominion University United States
- Old Dominion University United States
FOS: Computer and information sciences, H.3.3, H.3.7, Computer Science - Digital Libraries, Digital Libraries (cs.DL), H.3.3; H.3.7, Information Retrieval (cs.IR), Computer Science - Information Retrieval
FOS: Computer and information sciences, H.3.3, H.3.7, Computer Science - Digital Libraries, Digital Libraries (cs.DL), H.3.3; H.3.7, Information Retrieval (cs.IR), Computer Science - Information Retrieval
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