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2015-07-02: JCDL2015 Main Conference
Large, Dynamic and Ubiquitous –The Era of the Digital LibraryJCDL 2015 (#JCDL2015) took place at the University of Tennessee Conference Center in Knoxville, Tennessee. The conference was four days...
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2015-07-07: WADL 2015 Trip Report
It was the last day of the ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2015 when the Workshop on Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) 2015 was scheduled and it started on time. When...
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2015-07-22: I Can Haz Memento
Inspired by the "#icanhazpdf" movement and built upon the Memento service, I Can Haz Memento attempts to expand the awareness of Web Archiving through Twitter. Given a URL (for a page) in a tweet with...
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2015-07-24: ICSU World Data System Webinar #6: Web-Centric Solutions for...
Earlier this week Herbert Van de Sompel gave a webinar for the ICSU World Data System entitled "Web-Centric Solutions for Web-Based Scholarship". It's a short and simple review of some of the...
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2015-07-27: Upcoming Colloquium, Visit from Herbert Van de Sompel
On Wednesday, August 5, 2015 Herbert Van de Sompel (Los Alamos National Laboratory) will give a colloquium in the ODU Computer Science Department entitled "A Perspective on Archiving the Scholarly...
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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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2015-08-18: Three WS-DL Classes Offered for Fall 2015
The Web Science and Digital Libraries Group is offering three classes this fall. Unfortunately there are no undergraduate offerings this semester, but there are three graduate classes covering the...
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2015-08-20: ODU, L3S, Stanford, and Internet Archive Web Archiving Meeting
Two weeks ago (on Aug 3, 2015), I was glad to be invited to visit Internet Archive in San Francisco in order to share our latest work with a set of the Web Archiving pioneers from around the world.The...
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2015-08-28 Original Header Replay Considered Coherent
IntroductionAs web archives have advanced over time, their ability to capture and playback web content has grown. The Memento Protocol, defined in RFC 7089, defines an HTTP protocol extension that...
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2015-09-01: From Student To Researcher II
After successfully defending my Master's Thesis, I accepted a position as a Graduate Research Assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Library's Digital Library Research and Prototyping Team....
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2015-09-08: Releasing an Open Source Python Project, the Services That...
The LANL Library Prototyping Team recently received correspondence from a member of the Wikipedia team requesting Python code that could find the best URI-M for an archived web page based on the date...
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2015-09-10: CDXJ: An Object Resource Stream Serialization Format
I have been working on an IIPC funded project of profiling various web archives to summarize their holdings. The idea is to generate statistical measures of the holdings of an archive under various...
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2015-09-21: InfoVis Spring 2015 Class Projects
In Spring 2015, I taught Information Visualization (CS 725/825) for MS and PhD students. This time we used Tamara Munzner's Visualization Analysis & Design textbook, which I highly recommend:...
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2015-09-28: TPDL 2015 in Poznan, Poland
The Old Market Square in PoznanOn September 15 2015, Sawood Alam and I (Yasmin AlNoamany) attended the 2015 Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) Conference in Poznan, Poland. This year,...
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2015-09-30: Digital Preservation - Magdeburg Germany Trip Report
Dr. Herzog: This large green area on your left is Sanssouci Park. It has 11 palaces in it.Yasmin: I want to visit this park after we are back from the university, can we?Dr. Herzog: We sure can... I...
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2015-10-07: IMLS and NSF fund web archive research for WS-DL
In the spring and summer of 2015, the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) group has received a total of $950k of funding from the IMLS and the NSF to study various aspects of web archiving....
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2015-10-21: Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) 2015
Excited to go to @ghc#GHC15 and meet 12,000 women in tech :) @ArabWIC@oducs@WebSciDL— Yasmina Anwar (@yasmina_anwar) October 13, 2015On October 13-17, the atmosphere at the George R. Brown Convention...
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