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2021-11-03: The Return of SHARI -- Bringing News and Web Archive Storytelling...
A SHARI story covering the biggest news story of October 25, 2010, involving revelations about Facebook. Follow @StormyArchives on Twitter for daily updates on yesterday's biggest news story.SHARI is...
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2021-11-18: Emily Escamilla (Computer Science PhD Student)
My name is Emily Escamilla. I joined the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) research group at Old Dominion University as a Ph.D. student in Fall 2021. In high school, I was a student at the...
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2021-11-18: ODU CS 2021 Trick-or-Research Event Trip Report
The Department of Computer Science (CS) at Old Dominion University (ODU) held its 3rd Trick-or-Research event, which was organized by Dr. Sampath and his goblins in the NIRDS lab. This year, the event...
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2021-11-19: HTML Meta Redirects Considered Harmful for Card Generation
img { border: 1px black solid; } A Twitter card often appears in a tweet when a user shares a URL. We found that if the page being shared on Twitter contains an HTML META redirect, Twitter will not...
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2021-11-22: Mohan Krishna Sunkara (Computer Science PhD Student)
Hello, my name is Mohan Krishna Sunkara. I am a PhD student in the Computer Science department. I am a member of the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) research group working under...
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2021-12-01: Yash Prakash (Computer Science Masters Student)
My name is Yash Prakash and I am currently pursuing my master's degree in Computer Science at Old Dominion University (ODU), Norfolk, VA. But my journey began as an Electronics and Instrumentation...
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2021-12-08: Collaborative Software Archiving Project funded by the Alfred P....
We are happy to announce that our new collaboration between the New York University (NYU)Division of Libraries, the Research Library's Prototyping Team at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), the...
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2021-12-13: Summary of “What Makes Videos Accessible to Blind and Visually...
Figure 1: Video (A) contains no information about accessibility. Video accessibility metrics (B), BVI people using it C) to filter or quickly identify accessible videos from search results. (Source:...
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2021-12-16: From Researcher to ISTI Postdoctoral Fellow
This summer, I was excited to be chosen as a new Postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory's Information Sciences Division (CCS-3). Being accepted for the position helped me focus my...
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2021-12-20 Machine Learning on Mobile and Embedded Devices
What is TensorFlow and TensorFlow Lite? TensorFlow is an open-source machine learning library widely adopted among deep learning practitioners and researchers. The library provides functionalities for...
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2021-12-31: Installing Several Open Source and Commercial Optical Character...
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tools are used for extracting text from images. There are many off-the-shelf OCR tools we can choose from. In a previous blogpost, I compared the performance of...
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2021-01-03: googletrans Python Library, The Unofficial Google Translate API
The Unofficial Google Translate APIEnhancing communication between people around the world have become of a special importance over the last decade or so due to the unparalleled growth in...
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2022-01-05: #WebArchiveWednesday Tweets from @WebSciDL in 2021
Last year I collected all the #WebArchiveWednesday tweets that the Web Science and Digital Libraries Group (@WebSciDL) tweeted in 2020, so I decided to do it again this year. @TroveAustralia started...
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2022-01-06: Seven WS-DL classes Offered for Spring 2022
https://xkcd.com/2537/Seven courses from the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) Group will be offered in Spring 2022. Because of the continuing Covid-19situation, the classes will be a mixture...
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2022-01-07: @WebSciDL, with "Web Science and Web Security," Wins COVA CCI...
https://xkcd.com/2385/ Profs. Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle, and Jian Wu have been awarded a $10,000 COVA CCI Academic Curriculum Development Grant (RFPCOVACCI-21-05) with their proposal "Web...
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2022-01-18: Evaluating Trust in User-Data Networks: What Can We Learn from Waze?
One of the research thrusts I'm currently pursuing is evaluating how much we can trust crowd sourced data provided by users in a large multi-user network with social components. As a first step I've...
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2022-01-19: Leveraging Google Translate for matching Arabic names written in...
Introduction:There is a significant amount of research papers and tools for Named-entity recognition (NER); however, only a small potion of it addresses Arabic text and even less tools for extracting...
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2022-01-21: Summary of Eye Movement and Pupil Measures: A Review
The increasing ubiquity of gaze-aware technologies (commonly referred to as eye trackers) have enabled assessing patterns in our complex visual interaction with the surrounding world. We can...
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2022-01-21: Lesley Frew (Computer Science Masters Student)
My name is Lesley Frew. I am a Computer Science MS student at ODU being supervised by Dr. Michele Weigle. I work full time as a high school computer science teacher in Northern Virginia. I started...
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2022-01-24: Quick and Easy Way to Write a Research Paper Publication
First prepare the figuresBe sure that everything has been done n=3 or more, and be sure to do the statistical analysis (t-tests to compare 2 things that have roughly normal distributions, Mann-Whitney...
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