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2019-09-25: Where did the archive go? Part 3: Public Record Office of...
In Where did the archive go? Part 1, we provided some details about changes in the archive Library and Archives Canada. After they upgraded their replay system, we were no longer able to find 49 out of...
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2019-10-01: Attending the Machine Learning + Libraries Summit at the Library...
On September 20, 2019, I attended the Machine Learning + Libraries Summit at the Library of Congress. The aim of the meeting is to gather computer and information scientists, engineers, data...
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2019-10-21: Where did the archive go? Part 4: WebCite
webcitation.orgWe previously described changes in the following web archives:In Where did the archive go? Part 1, we provided some details about changes in the archive Library and Archives Canada....
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2019-10-25: Summary of "Proactive Identification of Exploits in the Wild...
Figure 1 Disclosed Vulnerabilities by Year (Source: CVE Details)The number of software vulnerabilities discovered and disclosed to the public is steadily increasing every year. As shown in Figure 1,...
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2019-10-28: The interaction between search engine caches and web archives
News articles from Indian newspapers about a corruption case involving an Indian doctor. The left images show screenshots of the article from the print newspaper. The right images show URLs for the...
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2019-10-31: Continuing Education to Advance Web Archiving (CEDWARC)
Note: This blog post may be updated with additional links to slides and other resources as they become publicly available. On October 28, 2019, web archiving experts met with librarians and archivists...
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2019-11-03: STEAM on Spectrum at VMASC
The second annual STEAM on Spectrum event was held at the Old Dominion University (ODU) Virginia Modeling Analysis & Simulation Center (VMASC) in Suffolk, VA on October 12, 2019. All of my students...
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2019-11-18: The 28th ACM International Conference on Information and...
Students, professors, industry experts, and others came to Beijing to attend the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM). This was the first time CIKM had...
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2019-11-20: PURS 2020 Proposal Awarded to Support Undergraduate Research in...
I am delighted that my proposal entitled "Toward Knowledge Extraction: Finding Datasets, Methods, and Tools Adopted in Research Papers" is awarded under the Program for Undergraduate Research and...
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2019-11-26: Summary of "Mentions of Security Vulnerabilities on Reddit,...
Figure 1: The Life-Cycle of a Vulnerability (Source: Horawalavithana)Cyber security attacks can be enabled by the fact that many widely-used applications share open-source libraries. As a result, a...
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2019-12-03: Excited to be back at ODU and even more excited to be part of the...
I joined ODU as an M.S. student in Fall 2009 and was fortunate to be immediately hired as a Research Assistant. As an RA, I was exposed to many interesting and intriguing problems in then emerging...
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2019-11-20: Trip Report to K-CAP 2019
Between November 18 and 20, I attended the 2019 International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2019). K-CAP is an ACM sponsored conference, rated as “A” in the ERA conference rating system. It...
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2019-12-12: Bhanuka Mahanama (Computer Science PhD Student)
My name is Bhanuka Mahanama, I joined Old Dominion University as a Ph.D. student in fall 2019 under the supervision of Dr. Sampath Jayarathna. I'm currently researching audio, visual, and eye-tracking...
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2019-12-21: Preserving Open Source Software with GitHub's Arctic Vault
Source: TechwormGitHub is used by more than 40 million developers and currently hosts more than 100 million repositories. In early November 2019, GitHub shared plans to open the Arctic Code Vault, an...
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2019-12-31: Muntabir Hasan Choudhury (Computer Science PhD Student)
My name is Muntabir Hasan Choudhury. I am an international student from Bangladesh. I joined the WS-DL (Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group) at Old Dominion University as a PhD student in...
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2020-01-01: Himarsha Jayanetti (Computer Science Master’s Student)
My name is Himarsha Jayanetti. I am an international student from Sri Lanka. I joined Old Dominion University as a Master’s student in Fall 2019 under the supervision of Dr. Michele Weigle. My current...
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2020-01-04: 365 dots in 2019 - top news stories of 2019
Fig. 1 (Click on image to expand) 365 dots in 2019 - News stories for 365 days in 2019. Each dot represents the average degree of the Giant Connected Component (GCC) with the largest average degree...
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2020-01-04: Four WS-DL classes Offered for Spring 2020
"Is the pipeline literally running from your laptop?""Don't be silly, my laptop disconnects far too often to host a service we rely on. It's running on my phone."Four WS-DL classes are being offered...
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2020-01-09: Kritika Garg (Computer Science PhD Student)
I am Kritika Garg, a first-year Ph.D. student at Old Dominion University. My research interests are in the fields of web archiving, social media, and natural language processing. I joined the Old...
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2020-01-13: Data Science Fall 2019 Class Projects
Here’s a list of projects from the CS 620 Introduction to Data Science & Analytics course from Fall 2019. All the projects are implemented using Python and Google Colab. Google Colab (Colaboratory)...
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