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Alexander C. Nwala

@acnwala.bsky.social

Assistant professor @williamandmary @WMdatascience. Postdoc @OSoMe_IU. PhD @WebSciDL @odu.

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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...

πŸ™ @ibnesayeed.bsky.social, @mark.bsky.social, @weiglemc.bsky.social, @phonedudemln.bsky.social, @acnwala.bsky.social, @webscidl.bsky.social.

10.10.2025 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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-...

12.08.2025 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Mink - Integrate Live & Archived Web +Memento - Chrome Web Store Integrating the Live and Archived Web Viewing Experience Using Memento

Just released Mink 3.0!

The Chrome extension integrates live & archived web. In v 3.0 we've:
* updated to MV3
* integrated #MementoWeb aggregator fallback

Give it a spin πŸ”— & report any bugsπŸͺ²
#WebArchiveWednesday #webarchiving

πŸͺ² github.com/machawk1/mink
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mink-...

25.06.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Lecturer in Data Science (Non-Tenured) The School of Data Science at Old Dominion University invites applications for a Lecturer position, starting in Fall 2025. We are seeking a dynamic and dedicated educator with a passion for teaching a...

Lecturer in Data Science (#F1048A)

non-TT position, starting Fall 2025
4+4 teaching load

reviews start on 2025-06-23

jobs.odu.edu/postings/23300

16.06.2025 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is it just me, but has anyone else been noticing a rise in CAPTCHA's? I now have to prove to a lot of websites that I'm a human being.

05.07.2025 13:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Introducing 3DLNews2: version 2 of our
three-decade dataset of US local news articles built from a 3.5 month-long scraping effort:

github.com/wm-newslab/3...
* 1995 -- 2024: 4 million URLs (with HTML text)
* 14k local newspapers, TV, & radio in 50 states (newsresearch.lab.wm.edu/tools/local-...)

20.02.2025 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - wm-newslab/toporesolve Contribute to wm-newslab/toporesolve development by creating an account on GitHub.

I would love to visit Paris.

Which Paris?
Paris, France or Paris, Virginia, or Paris, Texas.

Welcome to annoying problem of toponym disambiguation

Greatness Emmanuel-King (@WMdatascience, @Microsoft) tested a dozen tools for this so you don't have to:
github.com/wm-newslab/t...

You're welcome!

13.01.2025 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
WArc School – ATBW

Applications now open for @atbw.bsky.social’s Web Archiving School. We’re recruiting fellows, instructors, and teaching assistants. Everyone is paid. Apply by January 31st, 2025. www.archivingtheblackweb.org/warc-school/

28.12.2024 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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2024-11-15: The 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2024 Trip Report The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.

@webscidl.bsky.social #CIKM2024 Trip Report:

33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2024

ws-dl.blogspot.com/2024/11/2024...

20.11.2024 22:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0