Michele Weigle

In "Detecting and reconstructing trustworthy edit histories using web archives", I talk about different markers of edit history on webpages and how web archives can be used to verify or refute them. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/02/2026... @webscidl.bsky.social

Center for Digital Research & Scholarship Distinguished Lecture Series A Vision for Trustworthy Web Archiving A PRESENTATION BY Dr. Michael L. Nelson Online Event via Zoom Abstract: Link rot and content drift have always been a part of the web...

I'll be presenting "A Vision for Trustworthy Web Archiving" as part of the Va Tech Center for Digital Research & Scholarship Distinguished Lecture Series.

Friday, Jan 30, 2026 10am EST

@webscidl.bsky.social

It will be on Zoom & registration is free:

calendar.lib.vt.edu/event/16230235

2026-01-22: Paper Summary: "Towards a better QA process: Automatic detection of quality problems in archived websites using visual comparisons" The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.

Travis Reid @treid803.bsky.social @webscidl.bsky.social summarizes Brenda Reyes Ayala's @brendareyesayala.bsky.social 2025 paper:

"Towards a better QA process: Automatic detection of quality problems in archived websites using visual comparisons"

ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/01/2026...

The work described in this article was supported by IMLS 🫶

#webarchiving

Our JASIST article, "Problems with archiving and replaying current web advertisements", was recently published: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
@wiley.com
Co-authors: Alex Poole, Hyung Wook Choi, Christopher Rauch, @machawk1.bsky.social, @phonedudemln.bsky.social, @weiglemc.bsky.social
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Statement of Agency’s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS Grants Statement of Agency’s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS Grants Washington, DC– Upon further review, the Institute of Museum and Library Services has reinstated all federal grants. This action supersede...

A win! The Institute of Museum and Library Services (the federal agency that supports the nation’s libraries) has reinstated thousands of grants that had been canceled by the Trump administration, after a federal judge ruled the executive order mandating those cuts was unlawful.

A follow up to the @tarannum44.bsky.social / @webscidl.bsky.social study on Twitter UI generations. This time, it's about acct pages, not just individual tweets.

ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/12/2025...

Photo of a banner featuring the logo for the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Photo credit: Shannon Finney / Institute of Museum and Library Services. Text below reads: "ALL PREVIOUSLY CANCELED FEDERAL LIBRARY GRANTS HAVE BEEN RESTORED: Following a court decision, the Institute of Museum and Library Services—the federal agency that provides funding for America’s libraries—announced it had reinstated all grants that it had previously terminated." Logos for I Love Libraries and the American Library Association.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services, the federal agency that provides funding for America's libraries, has announced it is reinstating all grants it had previously terminated, including those to libraries and library organizations across the U.S.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4496W4V

2025-11-12: 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT 2025) Trip Report The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.

Trip report for the 2025 ACM Hypertext Conference #HT2025 @acmht.bsky.social

@webscidl.bsky.social PhD students Tarannum Zaki, Rochana Obadage, & Dominik Soos and alumni @machawk1.bsky.social & @ibnesayeed.bsky.social attended in September, 2025.

ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/11/2025...

Our October ODU-CS PhD Gathering featured a talk from my PhD student, Tarannum Zaki (@tarannum44.bsky.social), based on our ACM Hypertext 2025 paper, "Web Archives for Verifying Attribution in Twitter Screenshots", preprint at arxiv.org/abs/2510.22939
@phonedudemln.bsky.social @webscidl.bsky.social

Of course, my first post as Associate Dean of the Graduate School at ODU had to pay tribute to the great @ass_deans (@altassdeans.bsky.social).

2025-10-28: Summary of "As an Autistic Person Myself:" The Bias Paradox Around Autism in LLMs Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT have become ubiquitous in our lives.

Javed Ferdous of @webscidl.bsky.social has written a paper summary of @acm-sigchi.bsky.social ACM CHI 2025's

“‘As an Autistic Person Myself:’ The Bias Paradox Around Autism in LLMs”

by Park, Min, Beltran, and Hayes.

ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...

2025-10-26: Exploring the Different Generations of Twitter/X's Tweet UI The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.

To study Twitter is to study archived Twitter. And if you're replaying archived pages, you need to be familiar with the different generations of UIs.

Tarannum Zaki of @webscidl.bsky.social explores and classifies the different UIs.

ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...

2025-10-10: An Internship Experience With the Internet Archive as a Google Summer of Code Contributor The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.

Excited to share my internship experience with the @archive.org as a Google Summer of Code 2025 contributor!

✍️ blog post: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...

🙏 @ibnesayeed.bsky.social, @mark.bsky.social, @weiglemc.bsky.social, @phonedudemln.bsky.social, @acnwala.bsky.social, @webscidl.bsky.social.

Faculty search ODU Data Science:

Critical Infrastructure and Data Transformation (CID) to Advance National Security
T/TT, open rank

jobs.odu.edu/postings/24241

Faculty search ODU Data Science:

AI-Infused Autonomous Systems for Medicine and Health
T/TT, open rank

jobs.odu.edu/postings/24399

Faculty search ODU Data Science:

Accelerator Science

Tenured, associate or full prof

jobs.odu.edu/postings/23963

They utilized the timestamp of a tweet to estimate the time that a tweet has been archived. They then established left & right time boundaries to limit search space to make resolving captured tweets from the web archive more efficient.
@tarannum44.bsky.social #ACMHT2025

📄 doi.org/10.1145/3720...

1. Reconstruct a tweet URL based on the embedded parameters in a tweet 2. Search @archive.org. Web archives are most useful when the Tweet (or account) is no longer on the live web. - @tarannum44.bsky.social #ACMHT2025

Another reason fake tweets are shared is for satire. 100k likes and no comments is suspicious. How can you tell it's real? Web archives serve as a good src of evidence that it's real. Their goal is to build an automated method for evidence that a tweet is authentic @tarannum44.bsky.social #ACMHT2025

Dominik Soós from @webscidl.bsky.social asks "Can LLMs Beat Humans on Discerning Human-written and LLM-generated Science News?" Their contribs inc. benchmarks & findings, new dataset w/ 362 article triplets, & a novel method to improve perf on open-weight LLMs #ACMHT2025

dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

@tarannum44.bsky.social from @webscidl.bsky.social is up next at #ACMHT2025 describing web archives usage for verifying attribution of Twitter screenshots with a compelling use case of one's love for pineapple pizza. 🍍🍕 @phonedudemln.bsky.social

Dr. Michele Weigle's (weiglemc.bsky.social & webscidl.bsky.social) interview with WAVY about the Computer Science for Teachers Graduate Certificate @ ODU.

www.wavy.com/news/educati...

📢🚨🔔 JCDL 2025 has extended the deadlines CFPs:

All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time:
- Full/Short Paper Submission Deadline: September 12, 2025
- Author Notification: October 31, 2025
- Camera-Ready Deadline: November 14, 2025

2025.jcdl.org/registration/.

Army vs RMC Alabama vs. ULM Michigan vs. App State Oklahoma vs. Boise State USC vs. Stanford Georgia vs. Holy Cross Miami vs. Miami Harvard vs. Centre Florida vs. Georgia Southern Cal vs. Alameda Coast Guard

DO YOU AGREE??

2025-08-18: Eight WSDL Classes Offered for Fall 2025 The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.

8 @webscidl.bsky.social classes for Fall 2025:

CS 418/518 Web Programming
CS 432/532 Web Science
CS 433/533 Web Security
CS 620 Intro to Data Science
CS 625 Data Vis
CS 733/833 NLP
CS 734/834 Info Retrieval
CS 795/895 Foundational Models for Data Science

ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/08/2025...

ODU Helps Fill Virginia's Need for More Computer Science Teachers By Tiffany Whitfield

@webscidl.bsky.social's own Lesley Frew!

big congrats to @weiglemc.bsky.social for recruiting her.

www.odu.edu/article/odu-...

2025-05-08: Thank you to NEH, IMLS, DoD Minerva, and NSF The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.

This semester, all of my federal grants were terminated. In a new blog post, I write about the importance of federal funding for academic research and the impact of these cuts.
@WebSciDL #NEH #IMLS #NSF
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/05/2025...

A Spotlight on Rumors YouTube video by UW (University of Washington)

The talk draws upon a decade of research on rumors, conspiracy theories, and disinformation to shed light on how the right-wing media ecosystem evolved (in part through the manipulation of digital and social media) and is reconfiguring politics/governance around world www.youtube.com/live/YnJ5o09...

And buy with cash, not credit card