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2014-11-14: Carbon Dating the Web, version 2.0
For over 1 year, Hany SalahEldeen's Carbon Date service has been out of service mainly because of API changes in some of the underlying modules on which the service is built upon. Consequently, I have...
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2014-11-20: Archive-It Partners Meeting 2014
I attended the 2014 Archive-It Partners Meeting in Montgomery, AL on November 18. The meeting attendees are representatives from Archive-It partners with interests ranging from archiving webpages...
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2014-12-20: Using Search Engine Queries For Reliable Links
Earlier this week Herbert brought to my attention Jon Udell's blog post about combating link rot by crafting search engine queries to "refind" content that periodically changes URIs as the hosting...
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2015-01-03: Review of WS-DL's 2014
The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group's 2014 was even better than our 2013. First, we graduated two PhD students and had many other students advance their status:Ahmed AlSumdefended his...
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2015-01-15: The Winter 2015 Federal Cloud Computing Summit
On January 14th-15th, I attended the Federal Cloud Computing Summit in Washington, D.C., a recurring event in which I have participated in the past. In my continuing role as the MITRE-ATARC...
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2015-02-05: What Did It Look Like?
Having often wondered why many popular videos on the web are time lapse videos (that is videos which capture the change of a subject over time), I came to the conclusion that impermanence gives value...
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2015-02-17: Fixing Links on the Live Web, Breaking Them in the Archive
On February 2nd, 2015, Rene Voorburgannounced the JavaScript utility robustify.js. The robustify.js code, when embedded in the HTML of a web page, helps address the challenge with link rot by detecting...
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2015-02-17: Reactions To Vint Cerf's "Digital Vellum"
Don't you just love reading BuzzFeed-like articles, constructed solely of content embedded from external sources? Yeah, me neither. But I'm going to pull one together anyway.Vint Cerf generated a lot...
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2015-03-02 Reproducible Research: Lessons Learned from Massive Open Online...
Source: Dr. Roger Peng (2011). Reproducible Research in Computational Science. Science 334: 122Have you ever needed to look back at a program and research data from lab work performed last year, last...
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2015-03-10: Where in the Archive Is Michele Weigle?
(Title is an homage to a popular 1980s computer game "Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?")I was recently working on a talk to present to the Southeast Women in Computing Conference about telling...
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2015-03-23: 2015 Capital Region Celebration of Women in Computing (CAPWIC)
On February 27-28, I attended the 2015 Capital Region Celebration of Women in Computing (CAPWIC) in Harrisonburg, VA on the campus of James Madison University. Two of our graduating Masters students,...
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2015-04-05: From Student To Researcher...
In 2010, I decided to again study at the Old Dominion University Computer Science Department for better employment opportunities. After taking some classes, I realized that I did not merely want to...
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2015-04-20: Virginia Space Grant Consortium Student Research Conference Report
Mat Kelly and various other graduate students in the state of Virginia present their graduate research at the Virginia Space Grant Consortium. .mug { width: 100px; border: 1px...
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2015-05-07: Teaching Undergraduate Computer Science Using GitHub and Docker
Mat Kelly taught CS418 - Web Programming at Old Dominion University in Spring 2015. This blog post highlights some teaching methods and technologies used (namely, Docker and GitHub) and how he...
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2015-05-09: IIPC General Assembly 2015 Trip Report
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2015-05-29: Call me Dr. SalahEldeen
Dr. Nelson saying how awesome I amStick a fork in it...it’s done! So now what?These are the two thoughts that floated in my mind just after defending my dissertation on May 5th. Is it over?... Well, my...
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2015-06-09: Web Archiving Collaboration: New Tools and Models Trip Report
Mat Kelly and Michele Weigle travel to and present at the Web Archiving Collaboration Conference in NYC. .mug { width: 100px; border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;...
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2015-06-09: Mobile Mink merges the mobile and desktop webs
As part of my 9-to-5 job at The MITRE Corporation, I lead several STEM outreach efforts in the local academic community. One of our partnerships with the New Horizon's Governor's School for Science and...
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2015-06-26: JCDL 2015 Doctoral Consortium
Mat Kelly attended and presented at the JCDL 2015 Doctoral Consortium. This is his report. .mug { width: 100px; border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px; margin-left: 5px;...
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2015-06-26: PhantomJS+VisualEvent or Selenium for Web Archiving?
My research and niche within the WS-DL research group focuses on understanding how the adoption of JavaScript and Ajax is impacting our archives. I leave the details as an exercise to the reader (D-Lib...
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