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2013-08-24: Two WS-DL Classes Offered for Fall 2013
Two WS-DL classes are offered for Fall 2013:CS 725/825 - Information Visualization, Dr. WeigleCS 495/595 - Introduction to Web Science, Dr. Nelson Information Visualization has been taught twice...
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2013-09-06: Wolfram Data Summit 2013 Trip Report
I was fortunate enough to be invited to present at the 2013 Wolfram Data Summit in Washington DC, September 5-6, 2013. My talk was about the future of web archiving, but the focus of the data summit...
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2013-09-09: MS Thesis: HTTP Mailbox - Asynchronous RESTful Communication
It is my pleasure to report the successful completion of my Master's degree thesis entitled "HTTP Mailbox - Asynchronous RESTful Communication". I have defended my thesis on July 11th and got my...
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2013-10-04: TPDL 2013 Trip Report
I attended the 2013 Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) Conference on September 22-26 in Valletta, Malta. Although I've had papers at several of the prior TPDL (known as ECDL prior to...
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Earlier this year, we were awarded an NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant for our project "Archive What I See Now": Bringing Institutional Web Archiving Tools to the Individual Researcher.We were...
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2013-10-14: Right-Click to the Past -- Memento for Chrome
Last week LANL released Memento for Chrome, an extension that adds Memento capability for Chrome browsers. It represents such a leap in capability and speed that the prior MementoFox (Memento for...
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2013-10-15: Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) 2013
On October 2-5, I was thrilled to attend Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC), the world's largest gathering for women in computing, and meet so many amazing and inspiring women in...
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2013-10-22: IEEE VIS Trip Report
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2013-10-23: Preserve Me! (... if you can, using Unsupervised Small-World...
Everyday we create more and more digital files that record our lives. We take selfies (with and without our loved ones). We record our baby's first step. We take pictures of things that we have or...
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2013-11-2: WSDL NFL Power Rankings Week 9
We are halfway through the 2013 NFL season and it is time for our WSDL mid-season rankings. Both conferences have one winless team, Jacksonville in the AFC and Tampa Bay in the NFC. The NFC is looking...
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2013-11-08: Proposals for Tighter Integration of the Past and Current Web
The Memento Team is soliciting feedback on two white papers that address related proposals for more tightly integrating the past and current web.The first is "Thoughts on Referencing, Linking,...
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2013-11-13: 2013 Archive-It Partner Meeting Trip Report
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2013-11-19: REST, HATEOAS, and Follow Your Nose
This post is hardly timely, but I wanted to gather together some resources that I have been using for REST (Representational State Transfer) and HATEOAS (Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State)....
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2013-11-21: The Conservative Party Speeches and Why We Need Multiple Web...
.@Conservatives put speeches in Streisand's house: http://t.co/6aRiOsHwxO@UKWebArchive: http://t.co/BGD3tYavEx via @lljohnston@hhockx— Michael L. Nelson (@phonedude_mln) November 13, 2013 Circulating...
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2013-11-21: 2013 Southeast Women in Computing Conference (SEWIC)
Last weekend (Nov 14-17), I was honored to give a keynote at the Southeast Women in Computing Conference (SEWICC), located at the beautiful Lake Guntersville State Park in north Alabama. The...
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2013-11-28: Replaying the SOPA Protest
In an attempt to limit online piracy and theft of intellectual property, the U.S. Government proposed the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA). This act was widely unpopular. On January 18th, 2012, many...
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2013-12-13: Hiberlink Presentation at CNI Fall 2013
Herbert and Martin attended the recent Fall 2013 CNI meeting in Washington DC, where they gave an update about the Hiberlink Project (joint with the University of Edinburgh), which is about preserving...
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2013-12-18: Avoiding Spoilers with the Memento Mediawiki Extension
From Modern Family to the Girl with the Dragon Tatoo, fans have created a flood of fan-based wikis based on their favorite television, book, and movie series. This dedication to fiction has allowed...
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2013-12-19: 404 - Your interview has been depublished
Early November 2013 I gave an invited presentation at the EcoCom conference (picture left) and at the Spreeeforum, an informal gathering of researchers to facilitate knowledge exchange and foster...
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2014-01-06: Review of WS-DL's 2013
The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group had a really good year in 2013. There was a burst of student progress in 2012 and there will likely be more in 2014, but in 2013:Mat Kelly passed...
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