Web Watch

Forensic web watch.

A search for forensic odontology sites on the Internet revealed thousands of 'hits', of which many constituted dentists offering a private service on their homepages. Several organisations and associations were identified following extensive sifting through these addresses and, despite its growing acceptance in the forensic community, the resources available were superficial and of only moderat...

Web watch: some Web-based resources for HIV/AIDS.

Watch What I Watch

This paper presents a high-level overview of Yahoo Research Berkeley’s approach to multimedia research and the ideas motivating it. This approach is characterized primarily by a shift away from building subsystems that attempt to discover or understand the “meaning” of media content toward systems and algorithms that can usefully utilize information about how media content is being used in spec...

Spy Watch: A Tool for Transparency in Web Tracking

This is in part a position paper and in part a description of a Google Chrome privacy extension we built. We make the case that our first goal when tackling the issue of privacy and third party tracking of user’s browsing should be to increase transparency. We describe a browser extension we have built, that enables users to see which third party has observed what about them. We discuss the res...

Automatic Preservation Watch using Information Extraction on the Web

The ability to recognize when digital content is becoming endangered is essential for maintaining the long-term, continuous and authentic access to digital assets. To achieve this ability, knowledge about aspects of the world that might hinder the preservation of content is needed. However, the processes of gathering, managing and reasoning on knowledge can become manually infeasible when the v...