Nick Ruest Search Nick Ruest Home C.V. Posts Presentations Publications Projects Visualizations Music Contact Nick Ruest Associate Librarian York University Biography Nick Ruest is an Associate Librarian in the Digital Scholarship Infrastructure Department at York University, co-Principal Investigator of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded The Archives Unleashed Project, co-Principal Investigator of the SSHRC grant “A Longitudinal Analysis of the Canadian World Wide Web as a Historical Resource, 1996-2014”, and co-Principal Investigator of the Compute Canada Research Platforms and Portals Web Archives for Longitudinal Knowledge. At York University, he oversees the libraries’ preservation initiatives, along with creating and implementing systems that support the capture, description, delivery, and preservation of digital objects having significant content of enduring value. He was previously active in the Islandora and Fedora communities, serving as Project Director for the Islandora CLAW project, member of the Islandora Foundation’s Roadmap Committee and Board of Directors, and contributed code to the project. He has also served as the Release Manager for Islandora and Fedora, the moderator for the OCUL Digital Curation Community, the President of the Ontario Library and Technology Association, and President of McMaster University Academic Librarians’ Association. Interests Web archives Data analytics Distributed systems Information retrieval Digital preservation Education MLIS, 2007 Wayne State University Bachelor of Arts Political Science, Minor in History, 2004 University of Michigan-Dearborn Recent Publications More Publications Fostering Community Engagement through Datathon Events: The Archives Unleashed Experience Samantha Fritz, Ian Milligan, Nick Ruest, Jimmy Lin PDF From archive to analysis: accessing web archives at scale through a cloud-based interface Nick Ruest, Samantha Fritz, Ryan Deschamps, Jimmy Lin, Ian Milligan PDF Building community at distance: a datathon during COVID-19 Samantha Fritz, Ian Milligan, Nick Ruest, Jimmy Lin PDF Project Content-Based Exploration of Archival Images Using Neural Networks Tobi Adewoye, Xiao Han, Nick Ruest, Ian Milligan, Samantha Fritz, Jimmy Lin PDF Project Video The Archives Unleashed Project: Technology, Process, and Community to Improve Scholarly Access to Web Archives Nick Ruest, Jimmy Lin, Ian Milligan, Samantha Fritz PDF Project Video We Could, but Should We? Ethical Considerations for Providing Access to GeoCities and Other Historical Digital Collections Jimmy Lin, Ian Milligan, Douglas W. Oard, Nick Ruest, Katie Shilton PDF The Archives Unleashed Project: Technology, Process, and Community to Improve Scholarly Access to Web Archives Nick Ruest, Jimmy Lin, Ian Milligan, Samantha Fritz PDF Solr Integration in the Anserini Information Retrieval Toolkit Ryan Clancy, Toke Eskildsen, Nick Ruest, Jimmy Lin PDF Dataset Project Building Community and Tools for Analyzing Web Archives through Datathons Ian Milligan, Nathalie Casemajor, Samantha Fritz, Jimmy Lin, Nick Ruest, Matthew S. Weber, Nicholas Worby PDF Project Slides Scalable Content-Based Analysis of Images in Web Archives with TensorFlow and the Archives Unleashed Toolkit Hsiu-Wei Yang, Linqing Liu, Ian Milligan, Nick Ruest, Jimmy Lin PDF Dataset Project Poster Recent & Upcoming Talks More Talks Lowering the Barrier to Access: The Archives Unleashed Cloud Project Jun 19, 2019 The web that was: archives, traces, reflections RESAW 2019 Slides Project Sustainability and Research Platforms: The Archives Unleashed Cloud Project Jun 7, 2019 International Internet Preservation Consortium Web Archiving Conference 2019 Slides See a little Warclight: building an open-source web archive portal with project blacklight Jun 6, 2019 International Internet Preservation Consortium Web Archiving Conference 2019 Slides Web Archives Analysis at Scale with the Archives Unleashed Cloud (with Ian Milligan) Apr 8, 2019 CNI Spring 2019 Membership Meeting Slides Oh, I Get by with a little help from my friends: Interdisciplinary Web Archive Collaboration. Feb 27, 2019 Workshop on Quantitative Analysis and the Digital Turn in Historical Studies Slides Make it WALK! May 10, 2018 Archives Association of Ontario 2018 Slides Hot Tips To Boost Your Interdisciplinary Web Archive Collaboration! Apr 17, 2018 Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship Speak Series Slides The World is a Beautiful and Terrible Place Mar 22, 2018 National Forum on Ethics and Archiving the Web Slides Video Boosting Your Interdisciplinary Web Archive Collaboration Feb 16, 2018 BC Research Libraries Group Lecture Series Slides Twitter and Web Archive Analysis at Scale Feb 14, 2018 Data Love-In 2018: A day of data management planning and conversations Slides Recent Posts More Posts Four Fucking Years of Donald Trump Nearly four years ago I decided to start collecting tweets to Donald Trump out of morbid curiosity. If I was a real archivist, I would … Jan 23, 2021 2 min read Enhancing Archives Unleashed Toolkit Usability with Spark-Submit Originally posted here. Over the last month, we have put out several Toolkit releases. The primary focus of the releases has been … May 6, 2020 4 min read Cloud-hosted web archive data: The winding path to web archive collections as data Originally posted here. Web archives are hard to use, and while the past activities of Archives Unleashed has helped to lower these … Feb 19, 2020 7 min read twut. Wait, wut? twut? Originally posted here. Introduction A few of the Archives Unleashed team members have a pretty in-depth background of working with … Dec 5, 2019 7 min read Exploring #elxn43 Twitter Data Introduction A few years ago Library Archives Canada, Ian Milligan and I collected tweets from the 42nd Canadian Federal Election. Ian … Nov 28, 2019 8 min read Projects Archives Unleashed Project Archives Unleashed aims to make petabytes of historical internet content accessible to scholars and others interested in researching the recent past. Supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we will be developing web archive search and data analysis tools to enable scholars and librarians to access, share, and investigate recent history since the early days of the World Wide Web. Web Archives for Historical Research Our research focuses on both web histories - writing about the recent past as reflected in web archives - as well as methodological approaches to understanding these repositories. Islandora CLAW Islandora CLAW is the next generation of Islandora. Fedora Repository Fedora is the flexible, modular, open source repository platform with native linked data support. Visualizations 212,621 #elxn43 Images Dear Donald; May 2017 - January 2019. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE, INCLUDING THE HATERS AND THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA! Totally clears the President. Thank you! 1,039,993 Audio Cover Images from the Internet Archive 6,104,790 #WomensMarch images A month of tweets at @realDonaldTrump Islandora CLAW Development 1,419,259 #panamapapers images 306,740 #YMMfire images 63,455 #TheHip, #hipinkingston images 1,203,867 #elxn42 images 108,375 #MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain images #elxn42 wordclouds by day anon development visualization Islandora 7.x-1.3 Development Music Unfavourable Offerings Sloppy A-Sides, Last of The Worst Strange Delights The HUMANS SoundtrackPro Unlimited THE ACHIEVEMENTS The Potions - Regular Release EP Sloppy B-Sides, First of The Worst Surnom de Gorille The Potions @ The Lifton Matterwave Foci 1.0 Audio Wardrobe's Jacuzzi Contact ruestn@yorku.ca CC-BY · Powered by the Academic theme for Hugo. Cite × Copy Download