@himarshaj.bsky.social
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...
Lesley's "welcome to WSDL" post from 2022
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2022/01/2022...
and the wrap-up post for her MS thesis โSurfacing Text Changes in Archived Webpagesโ
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2024/10/2024...
@webscidl.bsky.social's own Lesley Frew!
big congrats to @weiglemc.bsky.social for recruiting her.
www.odu.edu/article/odu-...
Excited to share that Iโve been selected as a Google Summer of Code 2025 contributor ๐คฉ
Iโll be working with @archive.org this summer, mentored by
@ibnesayeed.bsky.social ๐
#GSoC2025, @mark.bsky.social, @webscidl.bsky.social, @weiglemc.bsky.social, @phonedudemln.bsky.social, @acnwala.bsky.social
โ๏ธOur @webscidl.bsky.social trip report for ACM #CAPWIC2025 is now live!
Check out the highlights by Yasasi, Lesley, Kritika, & I: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/05/2025...
@weiglemc.bsky.social, @phonedudemln.bsky.social, @openmaze.bsky.social, @nirdslab.bsky.social
Had an amazing time representing @webscidl.bsky.social, ODU at the #CAPWIC2025 in Washington, D.C., alongside Kritika, @Lesley, Yasasi, & Kumushini ๐
@weiglemc.bsky.social, @phonedudemln.bsky.social , @openmaze.bsky.social , @nirdslab.bsky.social
#WomenInTech #WomenInSTEM ๐ฉโ๐ป๐ช
We analyzed 100 tweets with TextBlob, VADER, RoBERTa & six human raters โ measuring agreement with Cohenโs & Fleissโ Kappa.
Spoiler: Consensus was hard to find๐ค
Read more at our latest @webscidl.bsky.social blog: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/03/2025...
@weiglemc.bsky.social @phonedudemln.bsky.social
โWeb archives for verifying attribution in Twitter screenshotsโ presented by Tarranum Zaki with her committee: Michele Weigle, Jian Wu, Michael Nelson, Vikas Ashok, and Sampath Jayarathna
Congratulations to Tarannum Zaki for passing her PhD candidacy exam based on her work using web archives to verify the attribution of screenshots of tweets.
@webscidl.bsky.social
@phonedudemln.bsky.social
Yesterday at TPDL 2023 Herman Kroll and Mirjam Cuper presented โAspect-Driven Structuring of Historical Dutch Newspaper Archivesโ
The authors discussed the challenges work with a corpus with unreliable OCR, inconsitent metadata, and the licensing restrictions.
Ref: doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Yesterday at TPDL 2023 Gianmaria Silvello presentedโHow to Cite a Web Ranking and Make it #FAIRโ
Silvello presented a prototype that captures search engine results in a human- and machine-readable format and posts it to Zenodo for DOI citing.
Ref: doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Yesterday at TPDL 2023 David Pride presented โCORE-GPT: Combining Open Access research and large language models for credible, trustworthy question answeringโ
Prideโs prototype provides answers that combine search results with GPTโs summarization abilities.
Ref: doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Beatrice Alex is giving the 2nd TPDL 2023 keynote โAI language technologies and digital collections: the need for interdisciplinary communication and co-design and trainingโ - How can we invite AI into the archive?
* www.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-b...
* www.ltg.ed.ac.uk
* www.ed.ac.uk/usher/clinic...
Pedestrians walk by awnings and cafe tables amidst a variety of architectural eras on a busy street in Zadar, Croatia.
Cars sit parked outside of the arch providing entry at Porta di Terraferma in Zadar, Croatia.
A line of broken columns, a circular building, and a steeple are some of the ancient ruins at the Roman Forum in Zadar, Croatia.
Many boats float along the waterfront of Zadar, Croatia.
Zadar, Croatia is pretty. The TPDL 2023 conference starts later today. I cannot wait.
(I also have jet lag, but Iโm fighting through it.)
Conference website: tpdl2023.dei.unipd.it/index.html
Zvjezdan Peneziฤ is kicking off TPDL 2023.
Marijana Tomiฤ is kicking off TPDL 2023.
Gianmaria Silvello is kicking off TPDL 2023.
Zvjezdan Peneziฤ, Marijana Tomiฤ, and Gianmaria Silvello are kicking off TPDL 2023!
Acceptance:
* 33% of full papers
* 18% of full papers were accepted as short papers
* 40% short papers
Proceedings are available now: doi.org/10.1007/978-...
