Frank McCown - Publications

The following are peer-reviewed conference, workshop, journal, and magazine articles that I have (co-)authored.

Richard Schneider and Frank McCown. First Steps in Archiving the Mobile Web: Automated Discovery of Mobile Websites, ACM IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2013), July 22-26, 2013. Indianapolis, IN, to appear.
Heather Tweedy, Frank McCown, and Michael L. Nelson. A Memento Web Browser for iOS, ACM IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2013), July 22-26, 2013. Indianapolis, IN, Poster, to appear.
Daniel Sebastian, Frank McCown, and Michael L. Nelson. Semi-Automated Rediscovery of Lost YouTube Music Videos, ACM IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2013), July 22-26, 2013. Indianapolis, IN, Poster, to appear.
Frank McCown and Stacy Schoen Gibson. Using Interdisciplinary Teams in a Mobile Application Development Course, The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC-MS 2013), 28, 5 (May 2013), 85-93.
Robert Sanderson, Harihar Shankar, Scott Ainsworth, Frank McCown, and Sam Adams. Implementing Time Travel for the Web, Code4Lib Journal, Issue 13, Apr S2011.
Frank McCown. Teaching Web Information Retrieval to Undergraduates, 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education (SIGCSE 2010), Mar 2010, Milwaukee, WI, p. 87-91. doi:10.1145/1734263.1734294
Frank McCown, Catherine C. Marshall, and Michael L. Nelson. Why Websites Are Lost (and How They’re Sometimes Found), Communications of the ACM, Nov 2009, Vol. 52, No. 11, p. 141-145. doi:10.1145/1592761.1592794
Frank McCown, Hannes Kulovits, Andreas Rauber. Report on the First International Workshop on Innovation in Digital Preservation (InDP 2009), D-Lib Magazine, July/Aug 2009, Vol. 15, No. 7/8. doi:10.1045/july2009-mccown
Frank McCown and Michael L. Nelson. What Happens When Facebook is Gone?, ACM IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2009), June 15-19, 2009. Austin, TX, p. 251-254. doi:10.1145/1555400.1555440
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Frank McCown and Michael L. Nelson. A Framework for Describing Web Repositories, ACM IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2009), June 15-19, 2009, Austin, TX, p. 341-344. doi:10.1145/1555400.1555456
Frank McCown, Michael L. Nelson, and Herbert Van de Sompel. Everyone is a Curator: Human-Assisted Preservation for ORE Aggregations. Proceedings of DigCCurr 2009. arXiv:0901.4571v1
Frank McCown and Michael L. Nelson. Recovering a Website's Server Components from the Web Infrastructure. ACM IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2008). June 16-19, 2008. Pittsburgh, PA. p. 124-133. doi:10.1145/1378889.1378911
Frank McCown and Michael L. Nelson. Usage Analysis of a Public Website Reconstruction Tool. ACM IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2008). June 16-19, 2008. Pittsburgh, PA. p. 371-374. doi:10.1145/1378889.1378955
Frank McCown, Amine Benjelloun, and Michael L. Nelson. Brass: A Queueing Manager for Warrick. 7th International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW 2007). June 23, 2007. Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Frank McCown and Michael L. Nelson. Agreeing to Disagree: Search Engines and their Public Interfaces. ACM IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2007). June 17-23, 2007. Vancouver, BC, Canada. p. 309-318. doi:10.1145/1255175.1255237
Frank McCown, Norou Diawara, and Michael L. Nelson. Factors Affecting Website Reconstruction from the Web Infrastructure. ACM IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2007). June 17-23, 2007. Vancouver, BC, Canada. p. 39-48. doi:10.1145/1255175.1255182
Michael L. Nelson, Frank McCown, Joan A. Smith, and Martin Klein. Using the Web Infrastructure to Preserve Web Pages. International Journal on Digital Libraries, Special Issue on Digital Preservation, July 2007, Vol. 6, No. 4, p. 327-349, doi:10.1007/s00799-007-0012-y
Catherine C. Marshall, Frank McCown, and Michael L. Nelson. Evaluating Personal Archiving Strategies for Internet-based Information. IS&T Archiving 2007. May 21-24, 2007. Arlington, VA. p.151-156. arXiv:0704.3647v1
Frank McCown and Michael L. Nelson. Characterization of Search Engine Caches. IS&T Archiving 2007. May 21-24, 2007. Arlington, VA. p. 48-52. arXiv cs.DL/0703083
Frank McCown and Michael L. Nelson. Poster: Search Engines and Their Public Interfaces: Which APIs are the Most Synchronized? 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2007). May 8-12, 2007. Banff, Alberta, Canada. p. 1197-1198. Paper and Poster
Martin Klein, Frank McCown, Joan A. Smith, and Michael L. Nelson. How much preservation do I get if I do absolutely nothing? Using the Web Infrastructure for digital preservation. Content Engineering: Konzepte, Technologien und Anwendungen in der Medienproduktion, ISBN: 978-3-940019-08-0, 2007, p. 71-87.
Frank McCown, Joan A. Smith, Michael L. Nelson, and Johan Bollen. Reconstructing Websites for the Lazy Webmaster. Dynamics of Search Engines: An Introduction, ISBN: 81-314-0679-2, 2007, p. 81-112.
Frank McCown, Joan A. Smith, Michael L. Nelson, and Johan Bollen. Lazy Preservation: Reconstructing Websites by Crawling the Crawlers. 8th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM 2006). November 10, 2006. Arlington, VA. doi:10.1145/1183550.1183564
Frank McCown and Michael L. Nelson. Evaluation of Crawling Policies for a Web-Repository Crawler. 17th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HYPERTEXT 2006). August 23-25, 2006. Odense, Denmark. p. 157-168. doi:10.1145/1149941.1149972
Frank McCown, Xiaoming Liu, Michael L. Nelson, and Mohammed Zubair. Search Engine Coverage of the OAI-PMH Corpus. IEEE Internet Computing, March/April 2006, Vol. 10, No. 2, p. 66-73, doi:10.1109/MIC.2006.41 Techical Report
Joan A. Smith, Frank McCown, and Michael L. Nelson. Observed Web Robot Behavior on Decaying Web Subsites. D-Lib Magazine, Feb 2006, Vol. 12, No. 2, doi:10.1045/february2006-smith
Frank McCown, Johan Bollen, and Michael L. Nelson. Evaluation of the NSDL and Google Search Engines for Obtaining Pedagogical Resources. 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2005). Sep 18-23, 2005. Vienna, Austria. p. 344-355. doi:10.1007/11551362_31
Frank McCown, Sheffan Chan, Michael L. Nelson, and Johan Bollen. The Availability and Persistence of Web References in D-Lib Magazine. 5th International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW 2005). Sep 22-23, 2005. Vienna, Austria. (Also available as arXiv cs.OH/0511077).
Daniel S. Swaney, Frank McCown, and Michael L. Nelson. Dynamic Web File Format Transformations with Grace. 5th International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW 2005). Sep 22-23, 2005. Vienna, Austria. (Also available as arXiv cs.DL/0512068).
Kailash Bhoopalam, Kurt Maly, Frank McCown, Ravi Mukkamala, and Mohammed Zubair. A Flexible Framework for Content-Based Access Management for Federated Digital Libraries. 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2005). September 18-23, 2005. Vienna, Austria. p. 489-490. doi:10.1007/11551362_49
Kailash Bhoopalam, Kurt Maly, Frank McCown, Ravi Mukkamala, and Mohammed Zubair. A Standards-Based Approach for Supporting Dynamic Access Policies for a Federated Digital Library. 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2005). Dec 12-15, 2005. Bangkok, Thailand. p. 242-252. doi:10.1007/11599517_28

Other

Frank McCown. Introduction to Web Search Engines: How search engines like Google work. Feb 2009.
Frank McCown, PHP: A Quick Overview, Harding University, 2010.
Frank McCown. Lazy Preservation: Reconstructing Websites from the Web Infrastructure. Dissertation, Computer Science Department, Old Dominion University, Oct 2007.
Frank McCown. Website Reconstruction using the Web Infrastructure - Extended Abstract. Doctoral Consortium, JCDL 2006, Chapel Hill, NC.
Frank McCown. Remoting with GUIs. The Code Project. May 2005.
Frank McCown. Development of a Remote Object Webcam Controller (ROWC) with CORBA and JMF. Masters Thesis. University of Arkansas at Little Rock. 2002.
Frank McCown and Tim Baird, Perl Primer: An Introduction to Perl for C++ Programmers, Harding University, 2001-2005.

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Indexing of my Publications