ArchiveSpark: Efficient Web Archive Access, Extraction and Derivation

Web archives are a valuable resource for researchers of various disciplines. However, to use them as a scholarly source, researchers require a tool that provides efficient access to Web archive data for extraction and derivation of smaller datasets. Besides efficient access we identify five other objectives based on practical researcher needs such as ease of use, extensibility and reusability. Towards these objectives we propose ArchiveSpark, a framework for efficient, distributed Web archive processing that builds a research corpus by working on existing and standardized data formats commonly held by Web archiving institutions. Performance optimizations in ArchiveSpark, facilitated by the use of a widely available metadata index, result in significant speed-ups of data processing. Our benchmarks show that ArchiveSpark is faster than alternative approaches without depending on any additional data stores while improving usability by seamlessly integrating queries and derivations with external tools.Comment: JCDL 2016, Newark, NJ, US

Multi-Media Mail in heterogeneous Networks

The MIME approach seems to be the most reasonable effort for allowing the sending and receiving of multimedia messages using standard Internet mail transport facilities. Providing new header fields, such as MIME-Version, Content-Type, and Content- Transfer-Encoding, it is now possible to include various kinds of information types, e.g. audio, images, richtext, or video, into a RFC 822-conformant mail. Making use of these headers, it is possible to fully describe an attached body part, so that a receiving mail user agent is able to display it without any loss of information. Additionally, the definition of the "multipart" and "message" content types allows the creation of hierarchical structured mails, e.g. a message containing two alternative parts of information, one that can be shown using a simple ASCII-terminal, the other to be displayed on a multimedia workstation. Allowing the definition of bilaterally defined content types and providing a standardized means of establishing new content types prevent MIME from being a one-way road and supply mechanisms to extend MIME for future use

Developing a Web Server Platform with SAPI support for AJAX RPC using JSON

Writing a custom web server with SAPI support is a useful task which helps students and future system architects to understand the link between network programming, object oriented programming, enterprise application designing patterns and development best practices because it offers a vision upon interprocess communication and application extensibility in a distributed environmentWeb, Server, Proxy, SAPI, HTTP, RPC, AJAX, JSON, XML

Working with Documents in Databases

Using on a larger and larger scale the electronic documents within organizations and public institutions requires their storage and unitary exploitation by the means of databases. The purpose of this article is to present the way of loading, exploitation and visualization of documents in a database, taking as example the SGBD MSSQL Server. On the other hand, the modules for loading the documents in the database and for their visualization will be presented through code sequences written in C#. The interoperability between averages will be carried out by the means of ADO.NET technology of database access.interoperability, documents, database, full text search.

Security: Hash Function-authentications

As security or firewall administrator, we got basically the same concerns (as a plumber) the size of the pipe the contents of the pipe, making sure the correct traffic is in the correct pipes and keeping the pipes from splitting and leaking all over the places of course like plumbers. When the pipes do leak: we are the ones responsible for cleaning up the mess and we are the ones who come up smelling awful. Firewall is a device that is used to provide protection to a system from network-based security threats. The firewall uses service, behavior, user and direction control techniques

Shifting perspectives in pictorial narratives

We propose an extension of Discourse Respresentation Theory (DRT) for analyzing pictorial narratives. We test drive our PicDRT framework by analyzing the way authors represent characters’ mental states and perception in comics. Our investigation goes beyond Abusch and Rooth (2017) in handling not just free perception sequences, but also a form of apparent perspective blending somewhat reminiscent of free indirect discourse