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Archive-It Collection 1784: Earthquake in Haiti

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A short summary story of 12 documents automatically selected by AlNoamany's Algorithm
Most frequent entities
Most frequent sumgrams
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Crisis Mappers Meeting « iRevolution


Our first CrisisMappers meeting took place in Orlando, Florida this past weekend. The meeting brought together a small group of tech professionals who are at the very cutting edge of crisis mapping...


BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Haiti earthquake


Haiti quake in maps Maps show the capital's worst affected areas, the impact on villages outside Port-au-Prince, how aid is reaching Haitians and the geological danger zone.


Haiti food convoy attacked; UN warns of volatility - Yahoo! News


PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Twenty armed men blocked a road and tried to hijack a convoy of food for earthquake victims, but were driven off by police gunfire, U.N. officials said Tuesday as they warne...


OCHA - Haiti


Haitian Women's Health Organization Urges Vaccinations for Children. [Photo: Sophia Paris/UN]   On 12 January, a powerful earthquake of 7.0 magnitude (USGS) on the Richter Scale affected Haiti , at...


Haiti News - Breaking World Haiti News - The New York Times


United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told NBC's "Today" program that 3 million people - about a third of Haiti's population - had been affected by the quake, and that "there will...


Multilink Haiti (InternetHaiti) on Twitter


InternetHaiti RT @Louisoxfam: Video of Oxfam cash-for-work program in #Haiti : http://bit.ly/aWKNIn about 1 hour ago from Tweetie @mobinfohaiti you are also The private sector! Keep your great job ...


Dominican Republic to host World Summit for Haiti in April - DominicanToday.com


Santo Domingo.- Dominican Republic will host a World Summit for the Reconstruction of Haiti on April 14, to which Venezuela president Hugo Chavez will be invited, said Foreign Relations minister Ca...


Multilink | Facebook


MultilinkThe Google "Crisis Response" page in support to disaster relief in Haiti. Thanks you so much Google for your help! On January 12, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti. Join recovery eff...


Haiti:Parish of Sacre Coeur, Turgeau on Flickr - Photo Sharing!


This photo also belongs to: Haiti Earthquake 2010 (Set) 349 items ...


The Destruction in Port-au-Prince - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com


Interactive Feature Haiti Earthquake Multimedia Videos, photographs and interactive features documenting the desperation in Haiti after a powerful earthquake devastated the country on Jan. 12, 2010...


The Destruction in Port-au-Prince - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com


Interactive Feature Haiti Earthquake Multimedia Videos, photographs and interactive features documenting the desperation in Haiti after a powerful earthquake devastated the country on Jan. 12.


Major earthquake hits Haiti - washingtonpost.com


Jan. 27 A young girl is rescued after being trapped since the earthquake. Haitians found her today, and a French rescue team came to pull her out of the rubble. Carol Guzy-Carol Guzy/Washington ...



This story was constructed automatically by using an updated version of AlNoamany's Algorithm. For more information about how this algorithm was developed, how it works, and its evaluation, please consult:

  • Y. AlNoamany, M. C. Weigle, and M. L. Nelson, "Generating Stories From Archived Collections," in Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Web Science Conference, pp. 309–318, ACM Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1145/3091478.3091508.
  • Y. AlNoamany, M. C. Weigle, and M. L. Nelson, " Stories From the Past Web," Tech. Rep. 1705.06218, May, 2017. https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.06218.

We employed the DSA toolkit to tell this story with the following steps.

  1. Hypercane selected the resources and generated the metadata for the story:
    1. It first executed AlNoamany's Algorithm:
      1. Discovered the Memento TimeMaps for the collection
      2. Analyzed these TimeMaps and reported the memento URI-Ms that were on-topic
      3. Filtered the content of those URI-Ms to find non-duplicates
      4. Filtered the content of those URI-Ms to find English language documents
      5. Sliced the collection by memento-datetime
      6. Clustered the mementos in each slice by Simhash distance
      7. Ranked the mementos in each cluster by a ranking equation
      8. Filtered each cluster for the highest ranking mementos
      9. Ordered each memento by publication date
    2. It used Archive-It Utilities to extract all metadata from the collection, such as who created the collection and the collection's name
    3. It analyzed all mementos to automatically discover the most frequent sumgrams and named entities present in the overall story
    4. It analyzed all images in these mementos to automatically select the best image for the overall story
    5. It then formatted the data for the story based on all of this input
  2. Raintale took the input from Hypercane and rendered the final product with information supplied by MementoEmbed
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