2020-01-13: Review of WS-DL's 2019
The Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) Research Group continued to grow in 2019! In this post we recap the highlights of calendar year 2019, including two Ph.D. graduates, seven incoming Ph.D....
View Article2020-02-08: My Impression to the 2020 ODU Undergraduate Research Symposium
Today, I went to the 2020 ODU Undergraduate Research Symposium (URS). This year, the symposium is held in the Learning Commons, Perry Library, running from 8 am to 12:30 am, including both poster and...
View Article2020-02-14: ACM Computing Surveys publication: Change Detection and...
I'm very excited to announce our recent publication at the prestigious "ACM Computing Surveys" journal. Vijini Mallawaarachchi, Lakmal Meegahapola, Roshan Madhushanka, Eranga Heshan, Dulani Meedeniya,...
View Article2020-03-07: At the nexus of the CNI keynote and Rosenthal’s response: “It's...
Author's note: This document is a public companion to a private document that outlines a number of security vulnerabilities and exploits. Both documents were shared in October, 2019 with the Internet...
View Article2020-03-18: Travis Reid (Computer Science PhD Student)
My name is Travis Reid and I joined the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) research group at Old Dominion University (ODU) as a Ph.D. student during the Spring 2020 semester. I decided on...
View Article2020-03-24: StoryGraph at Computation + Journalism Symposium 2020 Non-Trip...
Click to expand: Overview of StoryGraph illustrating the process of generating a news similarity graph is four primary steps. The four steps are explained in the StoryGraph Tech ReportWe never did give...
View Article2020-03-26: Memento Compliance Audit of PyWB
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View Article2020-04-01: SHARI: StoryGraph Hypercane ArchiveNow Raintale Integration --...
This screenshot from DSA Puddles demonstrates the story produced by the SHARI process for the largest StoryGraph component on March 23, 2020. Here we see news stories discussing the COVID-19 pandemic...
View Article2020-04-09: After Using Eclipse for 10 Years, I Switched to IDEA [Translated]
Original post: https://www.cnblogs.com/ouyida3/p/9901312.html published in December 2018.After using Eclipse for 10 years, I finally switched to IDEA.I did not start with Eclipse when I became a Java...
View Article2020-04-16: Visual Data Analysis with Streaming-hub
Streaming-hub [Link]In my previous post, I elaborated on how dataset metadata could be standardized in a manner that enables researchers to efficiently discover and reuse data already collected for...
View Article2020-04-25: Effect of Reading Patterns of Novice Researchers using Eye Tracking
Figure 1: A participant reading the research paper wearing the PupilLabs Core eye tracker. Scientific literature gives novel research ideas as well as solutions to various problems. When it comes to...
View Article2020-04-26: Large Scale Networking (LSN) Workshop on Huge Data
Between April 13 and 14, 2020, I attended the Large Scale Networking (LSN) workshop on Huge Data. This is a workshop supported by NSF, organized by Clemson University (Dr. Kuang-Ching Wang), University...
View Article2020-04-30: Archives Unleashed: New York Datathon Report (From Home Edition)
The Archives Unleashed Datathon is a two-day event hosted by the Archive Unleashed team where participants from different research backgrounds collaborate together to explore web archive collections....
View Article2020-05-06: Teaching a Flipped Hybrid (In-Class/Online) Course
I’ve been meaning to write this for a couple years. Now seems an especially appropriate time for it. In particular, a hybrid course may be an option if staggered in-class attendance is something that...
View Article2020-05-06: PTSD Assessments in COVID-19 Health Care Workers
Figure 1: Both military and medical personnel are at risk for psychological trauma [BBC.com]Health care workers are working in unfamiliar territory in recent times. Hospitals in major cities are...
View Article2020-05-19: OCR Tools Experiment on Scanned Electronic Theses and...
A thesis or dissertation is one type of scholarly works that shows a student pursuing higher education and has successfully met the partial requirement of a degree. An electronic thesis or dissertation...
View Article2020-05-21: Visualizing Webpage Changes Over Time With TMVis
Home page of tmvis.cs.odu.eduThis work has been supported by a NEH/IMLS Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (HAA-256368-17). The web is dynamic, meaning webpages that exist today may not exist...
View Article2020-05-22: YouTube's recommended videos get longer as more of them are...
The video "The NZ Mosque Attack Doesn't Add Up" was recommended from 51 channelsIn this post, I examine the results of YouTube's recommendation algorithm through an example of series of videos...
View Article2020-05-28: Richard Pates (Computer Science PhD Student)
Welcome to my profile on Blogger! My name is Richard Pates and I joined the Web Sciences and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) research group in the Department of Computer Science (CS) at Old Dominion...
View Article2020-06-03: Hypercane Part 1: Intelligent Sampling of Web Archive Collections
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