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2015-11-06: iPRES2015 Trip Report
From November 2nd through November 5th, Dr. Nelson, Dr. Weigle, and I attended the iPRES2015 conference at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. This served as a return visit for Drs. Nelson...
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2015-11-24 Twitter Follower Analysis of Virginia University Alumni Associations
The primary goal of any alumni association is to maintain and strengthen the ties between its alumni, the community, and the mission of the university. With social media, it's easier than ever to...
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2015-11-28: Two WS-DL Classes Offered for Spring 2016
Two WS-DL classes are offered for Spring 2016:CS 725/825 - Information Visualization, Dr. WeigleCS 432/532 - Introduction to Web Science, Dr. Nelson Information Visualization is being offered both...
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2015-12-08: Evaluating the Temporal Coherence of Composite Mementos
When an archived web page is viewed using the Wayback Machine, the archival datetime is easy to determine from the URI and the Wayback Machine's display. The archival datetime of embedded resources...
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2015-12-22: 60% of Web Annotations are Orphaned or in Danger of Being Orphaned
Figure 1. An Annotation is defined by OAC as a set of connected resources In our TPDL paper, we studied 6281 highlighted text annotations (out of 7744 annotations) available in the Hypothes.is...
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2015-12-24: CNI Fall 2015 Membership Meeting Trip Report
The CNI Fall 2015 Membership Meeting was held in Washington, D.C., December 14-15, 2015. Like all CNI meetings, the Fall 2015 meeting was excellent and contained many high quality presentations....
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2016-01-02: Review of WS-DL's 2015
.@WebSciDL reunion at #jcdl2015 - 4 phd alumni, 3 phd students, 2 profs! pic.twitter.com/kA8CUYtZCW— Michael L. Nelson (@phonedude_mln) June 23, 2015The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group...
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2016-01-28: January 2016 Federal Cloud Computing Summit
As I have mentioned previously, I am the MITRE chair of the Federal Cloud Computing summit. The Summits are designed to allow representatives from government agencies that would not necessarily cross...
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2016-02-24: Acquisition of Mementos and Their Content Is More Challenging...
Recently, we conducted an experiment using mementos for almost 700,000 web pages from more than 20 web archives. These web pages spanned much of the life of the web (1997-2012). Much has been written...
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2016-03-07: Custom Missions in the COVE Tool
When I am not studying Web Sciences at ODU, I work as a software developer at Analytical Mechanics Associates. In general, my work there aims to make satellite data more accessible. As part of this...
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2016-03-07: Archives Unleashed Web Archive Hackathon Trip Report (#hackarchives)
The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (University of Toronto)Between March 3 - March 5, 2016, Librarians, Archivists, Historians, Computer Scientists, etc., came together for the Archives Unleashed Web...
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2016-03-22: Language Detection: Where to start?
p.solid {border-style: solid;font-family:courier;font-size:80%;padding: 5px;} Language detection is not a simple task, and no method results in 100% accuracy. You can find different packages online to...
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2016-04-05: CNI Spring 2016 Trip Report
The CNI Spring 2016 Members Meeting was held in San Antonio, TX, April 4-5, 2016. As usual, the presentations were excellent but with six or more simultaneous sessions you are forced to make hard...
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2016-04-15: How I learned not to work full-time and get a PhD
ODU's commencement on May 7th marks the last day of my academic career as a student. I began my career at ODU in the Fall of 2004, graduated with my BS in CS in the Spring of 2008 at which point I...
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2016-04-17: A Summary of "What Triggers Human Remembering of Events? A...
Authors Nattiya Kanhabua., Ngoc Tu Nguyen., and Claudia Niederée. from L3S published the following study at JCDL 2014. In the process of reviewing possible topics for my PhD research, I share my...
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9°C & wind 0 m/s! Our host @Landsbokasafn& @kristsi seem to have booked an early spring for #iipcga16. Thank you! pic.twitter.com/jvyORkzsRo— IIPC (@NetPreserve) April 12, 2016Our host @kristsi...
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2016-04-24: WWW 2016 Trip Report
I was fortunate to present a poster at the 25th International World Wide Web Conference, held from April 11, 2016 - April 15, 2016. Though my primary mission was to represent both the WS-DL and the...
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2016-04-27: Mementos in the Raw
While analyzing mementos in a recent experiment, we discovered problems processing archived content. Many web archives augment the mementos they serve with additional archive-specific information,...
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2016-05-31: Can I find this story? API: Yes, Google: Maybe, Native Search: No
A story on Storify titled: "Lecture on Academic Freedom" (capture date: 2016-05-31)The story on Storify titled: "Lecture on Academic Freedom" could not be found on Google (capture date: 2016-05-31)The...
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2016-06-03: Lipstick or Ham: Next Steps for WAIL
The development, state, and future of 🐳 Web Archiving Integration Layer. 💄∨🐷? .mug { width: 100px; border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;...
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