Internet Memory Foundation

The objective of the 1st Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TWAW) is to provide a venue for researchers of all domains (IE/IR, Web mining etc.) where the temporal dimension opens up an entirely new range of challenges and possibilities. The workshop's ambition is to help shaping a community of interest on the research challenges and possibilities resulting from the introduction of the time dimension in Web analysis. The maturity of the Web, the emergence of large scale repositories of Web material, makes this very timely and a growing sets of research and services (recorded future1, truthy2 launched just in the last months) are emerging that have this focus in common. Having a dedicated workshop will help, we believe, to take a rich and cross-domain approach to this new research challenge with a strong focus on the temporal dimension.

In this paper we propose new tasks for a possible future Web Spam Challenge motivated by the needs of the archival community. The Web archival community consists of several relatively small institutions that operate independently and possibly over different top level domains (TLDs). Each of them may have a large set of historic crawls. Efficient filtering would hence require (1) enhanced use of the time series of domain snapshots and (2) collaboration by transferring models across different TLDs. Corresponding Challenge tasks could hence include the distribution of crawl snapshot data for feature generation as well as classification of unlabeled new crawls of the same or even different TLDs.