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2021-09-15: Data Science High School Summer Camp 2021
Data Science is becoming the lingua franca of the 21st century as there are more data sources today than ever before. To prepare the younger generation for the world of data science and artificial...
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2021-09-15: The 21st ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng 2021) Trip...
The 21st ACM Conference on Document Engineering (DocEng 2021) was organized by the University of Limerick, Ireland and held virtually (due to the COVID-19 pandemic) from August 24th to 27th. This year,...
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2021-09-16: Train Detection - 2021 Summer Internship at Bihrle Applied...
During the end of my 2nd year as a Ph.D. student at Old Dominion University (ODU), I was fortunate to get a remote internship at Bihrle Applied Research Inc (BAR) -- an aerospace and aerodynamics...
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2021-09-19: Conditional Random Field with Textual and Visual Features to...
Our previous blog described Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) before 1997, and a significant fraction of ETDs after 1997 are scanned from physical copies. These ETDs are valuable for digital...
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2021-09-20: Digging Up a Gem Through the Web Archives
As we commemorate the Internet Archive turning 25 years, I decided to unearth some memories from the most precious days of my life. I attended Devi Balika Vidyalaya, Colombo, Sri Lanka for my high...
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2021-09-23: Real-time Header Extraction from Scientific PDF Documents: Summer...
This Summer, I was accepted as a Graduate Student in the Institutional Scientific Content (ISC) Team, a sub division of the Research Library at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). LANL is a United...
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2021-10-07: Tracking Down LSU Women's Basketball Webpages
I grew up as a college sports fan. I remember learning to count by twos from watching basketball games and learning my sevens times-table from college football. Sometimes I'd even cheer for my team to...
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2021-10-08: Role of Cybersecurity on Curbing the Spread of Disinformation and...
Earlier in 2021, the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) announced a call for proposals themed Role of Cybersecurity on Curbing the Spread of Disinformation and Misinformation and Disinformation. The...
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2021-10-14: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2021 Trip Report
(source: https://2021.jcdl.org/)The 2021 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2021) was hosted virtually due to the global pandemic by the School of Information Science of the...
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2021-10-14: Summer Internship at LANL - Memento Validator
Last summer, I had an opportunity to work as a research intern at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) with the Research and Prototyping (Proto) team of the LANL Research Library. The position...
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2021-10-12: ODU CS selected for national NASA@ My Library STEAM programming...
Dr. Poursardar, a lecturer in ODU computer science department and a member of the Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group (WS-DL), has been selected through a competitive application process...
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2021-10-19: Proving I was an Etown ILA using the Internet Archive
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Internet Archive, I decided to use the Wayback Machine to dig through my past related to Elizabethtown College, PA, mainly when I was featured as an...
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2021-10-20: Evolution of a Childhood Newspaper
Cover Pages of Wijeya newspapersWhen we (Gavindya and Yasith) were young adults, we read the Wijeya newspaper weekly back in Sri Lanka. Wijeya is a native language (Sinhala), weekly newspaper in Sri...
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2021-10-20: Not Your Parents’ Web: Scope, Segmentation, Stability,...
"Even though the documents on the Internet are the easy documents to collect and archive, the average lifetime of a document is 75 days and then it is gone." -- Brewster Kahle, November,...
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2021-10-21: 9/11 through the eyes of the Internet Archive
"Where were you when the planes hit the World Trade Center?" It seems like everyone has an answer to that question. On 9/11, my mom was visiting my grandparents in a small town in Wisconsin. My dad...
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2021-10-21: How the Internet Archive Helped Me Remember CIKM 2019
Last week, I was discussing my publications with a colleague, and I mentioned that I had a paper published at ACM CIKM 2019. They were curious about the conference and its 2019 call for papers (CFP)...
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2021-10-22: Rediscovering my Angelfire.com Pages with the Help of the Wayback...
To liberally steal a line from Stephen King: "A 6 digit ICQ number fled through the ancient Internet, and Jim sporadically scrambled after it." This is has been the case for well over a decade -...
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2021-11-02: Extraction and Evaluation of Knowledge Entities from Scientific...
(source: https://2021.jcdl.org/)Due to the global pandemic the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2021) was organized...
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2021-11-03: Playing Archived Flash Games From ArmorGames.com Using the...
When I was in middle school and high school, I used to play browser games from websites like ArmorGames.com, AddictingGames.com, and CrazyMonkeyGames.com. The browser games that I used to play were...
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2021-11-03: WS-DL Celebration of #InternetArchive25
source: anniversary.archive.orgThe Internet Archive celebrated its 25th anniversary two weeks ago (#InternetArchive25). IA began in late 1996, although its web archive, the Wayback Machine, was not...
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