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2019-01-03: Five WS-DL Classes Offered for Spring 2019
"Both arXiv and archive.org are invaluable projects which, if they didn't exist, we would dismiss as obviously ridiculous and unworkable."A record fiveWS-DL classes are offered for Spring 2019:CS...
View Article2019-01-07: Review of WS-DL's 2018
We had a great #jcdl2018 / #wadl2018 / @jcdl2018! Here is the 2018 @WebSciDL reunion photo, but we're getting so large we weren't all there at once!Not pictured:Incoming fac (Fall 2018):...
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2019-02-01: WS-DL Hosts Ed Fox For A Colloquium About Global Event And Trend...
On January 18, 2019, the Web Science and Digital Libraries Group hosted Prof. Ed Fox from Va Tech for the colloquium "Integrating Research and Education Regarding Global Event and Trend Archiving"....
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2019-02-02: Two Days in Hawaii - the 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial...
The 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the 31st Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, and the 9th Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence...
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2019-02-08: Google+ Is Being Shuttered, Have We Preserved Enough of It?
In 2017 I reviewed many storytelling, curation, and social media tools to determine which might be a suitable replacement for Storify, should the need arise. Google+ was one of the tools under...
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2019-02-14: CISE papers need a shake -- spend more time on the data section
I know this is a large topic and I may not have enough evidence to convince everyone, but based on my reviewing experiences on journal articles and conference proceedings, I strongly feel that computer...
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2019-03-05: 365 dots in 2018 - top news stories of 2018
Fig. 1: News stories for 365 days in 2018. Each dot represents the average degree of the Giant Connected Component (GCC) with the largest average degree across all the 144 story graphs for a given day....
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2019-03-18: Cookie Violations Cause Archived Twitter Pages to Simultaneously...
Figure 1: Mixed language blocks on a memento of a Twitter timeline. Highlighted with blue colored box for Portuguese, orange for English, and red for Urdu. Dotted border indicates the template present...
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2019-04-01: Creating a data set for 116th Congress Twitter handles
Senators from Alabama in the 115th CongressAny researcher conducting research on Twitter and the US Congress might think, "how hard could it be in creating a data set of Twitter handles for the members...
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2019-04-17: Russell Westbrook, Shane Keisel, Fake Twitter Accounts, and Web...
On March 11, 2019 in the NBA, the Utah Jazz hosted their Northwest Division rivals, the Oklahoma City Thunder. During the game, a Utah fan (Shane Keisel) and a Oklahoma City player (Russell Westbrook)...
View Article2019-05-03: Selected Conferences and Orders in WS, DL, IR, DS, NLP, AI
The time when research works should be done is usually less predictable than homework. You may submit a paper next year, but you cannot submit your homework the next year. Even if there is a target...
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2019-05-06: Twitter broke my scrapers
Fig. 1: The old tweet DIV showing four (data-tweet-id, data-conversation-id, data-screen-name, and tweet-text) attributes with meaningful names. These attributes are absent in the new tweet DIV (Fig....
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2019-05-14: Back to Pennsylvania - Artificial Intelligence for Data Discovery...
The 2019 Artificial Intelligence for Data Discovery and Reuse conference, supported by the National Science Foundation, was held in Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA, between May 13 and May 15,...
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2019-05-29: In The Battle of the Surrogates: Social Cards Probably Win
Web archive collections provide meaning by sampling specific resources from the web. We want to summarize these resources by sampling mementos from those collections and visualizing them as a social...
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2019-06-03 Metadata on Datasets Saves You Time
When I joined ODU this Spring 2019, I explored datasets in digital libraries with the hope of discovering ways to enable users to discover data, and for data to find its ways to users as my first task....
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2019-06-05: Wikis Are Archives: Integrating Memento and Mediawiki
Since 2013, I have been a principal contributor to the Memento MediaWiki Extension. We recently released version 2.2.0 to support MediaWiki versions of 1.31.1 and greater. During the extension's...
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2019-06-05: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2019 Trip Report
Alma Mater, a bronze statue at the University of Illinois by sculptor Lorado Taft. Photo by Illinois Library, used under CC BY 2.0 / Cropped from originalIt's June, so this means it's time for the 19th...
View Article2019-06-09: How to Become a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor - Part I...
This is a three-part write-up, in this first post, I’ll talk about what you need to do to prepare yourself in the next 2 to 3 years for a tenure-track assistant professor job. I’ll do another blog post...
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2019-06-18: It is time to go back home!
On May 11, 2019 I officially obtained my PhD in Computer Science from Old Dominion University. My graduate studies journey started when I received a full scholarship from the University of Hail in...
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2019-06-19: Use of Cognitive Memory to Improve the Accessibility of Digital...
Eye Tracking Scenario (source - https://imotions.com/blog/eye-tracking-work/)Since I joined ODU, I have been working with eye tracking data recorded when completing a Working Memory Capacity (WMC)...
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