We had an all hands WS-DL Group, ODU CS meeting today, including "minute madness" updates from 24 fac+students. Also, WS-DL Group, ODU CS alumni Martin Klein (Martin Klein, Los Alamos National Laboratory) & Hany SalahEldeen (Hany SalahEldeen, @Amazon) generously joined us & talked about their post-PhD careers.

Congratulations to Dr. Mohamed Aturban on his successful dissertation defense today! ODU Computer Science WS-DL Group, ODU CS

Interesting work from @ShawnMJones from WS-DL Group, ODU CS at #JCDL2021 regarding using social cards with web archives. However, one standout aspect is how he formatted his presentation -- not just a floating head over slides but embedded branding. 👇 is his rec. video being played. 🤯

Now at #JCDL2021 paper session 9 Shruti Singh @ ACL 2024 presents "COMPARE: A Taxonomy and Dataset of Comparison Discussions in Peer Reviews" Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2108.04366 Author page: shruti-singh.github.io

Wrapping up #JCDL2021 session 9, Jakub Swacha presents "Three Dimensions of Science: A Web Tool for 3{D}~Visualization of Scientific Literature" Author page: iiwz.univ.szczecin.pl/jakubs/

The other day Martin Klein pointed out that webcitation.org is down, again. This time it's a mesg from JMIR Publications. #WebArchiveWednesday thread

Our proposal “Accessibility Does Not Imply Usability for Students With Visual Disabilities” has been accepted to be presented as a pre-recorded video at the CNI’s Fall 2021 meeting cni.org/mm/fall-2021 WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science

My presentation about non-visual software usability that was pre-recorded for #cni21f, is now available online WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=ano-OZ… Webpage: cni.org/topics/informa…

Happy to be part of this $1.15M grant from U.S. Department of Education. Thx to Jessica Johnson (PI, @Innov8_Learning) for pulling this together & for including me! "Did They Really Tweet That? Detecting Misattribution Disinformation in Screenshots of Social Media Posts" WS-DL Group, ODU CS @ODUVMASC

Want to know a quick and easy way to write a research paper publication? This will be particularly helpful to undergrad researchers and first year grad students ws-dl.blogspot.com/2022/01/2022-0… Credit goes to Dr. Richard Gomer at Texas A&M Biology for the original writeup ODU Computer Science WS-DL Group, ODU CS

This is a great discussion on parsing WARCs.

Don't forget to submit an abstract for the #JCDL2022 Doctoral Consortium. We're looking forward to hearing about your awesome research. Deadline is Monday!

I am looking forward to giving a talk on "Decentralized Web Archiving and Replay" at the #DWebCamp2022 next month. gitlab.com/getdweb/dweb-c… #DWeb #WebArchiving The Wayback Machine Internet Archive

The resignation academics feel when the calendar changes to “August” and you have to admit to yourself that most (all?) of your summer writing goals are not going to happen…

Webb is on a roll! 🤸 This new NASA Webb Telescope near and mid-infrared composite image highlights the Cartwheel Galaxy, the result of a high-speed collision that occurred about 440 million years ago, along with two neighboring galaxies. Get the details: go.nasa.gov/3OSNteh

.New Scientist / princess glitter sparkes wrote about the vulnerability of videos, unlike images, in Twitter DMs not being protected by HTTP authentication. See also: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2022/12/2022-1…

Excited to be part of the "Natural Language Processing for Accessible Communication" panel on Day 2 of the W3C WAI's Artificial Intelligence and Accessibility Research Symposium. Please try to attend if you have some free time on Jan 10 and 11. WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science ODU Libraries

Very excited to listen to Dr. Justin Brunelle Justin F Brunelle, Cheif Scientist MITRE, and distinguished WS-DL Group, ODU CS alumni, ODU Computer Science Brunelle family ;) for our @nsf REU Friday invited speaker series "Web Crawling and Why We Want to Archive the Dark Web"

Kumushini Thennakoon Michael L. Nelson Alexander C. Nwala William & Mary Old Dominion University WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU CS REU ODU Computer Science Here is a group photograph from today’s talk.