Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

I attended the 2012 Archive-It Partners Meeting in Annapolis, MD on December 3. I decided to attend at the last minute, and Kristine and Lori graciously let me have 5 minutes to talk about our project and upcoming NEH proposal.  We're looking for humanities-types and Archive-It partners to work with in evaluating our visualizations. After my presentation, I was able to make contacts with several potential partners.   Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It from Michele Weigle There were several nice talks in the half-day session.  The full schedule and slides from all of the presentations are available. Related to what we're working on, Alex Thurman from Columbia University Libraries talked about their local portal  to their Human Rights collection ( collection  at Archive-It).  They offer a rotated list of screenshots for featured sites and have tabs to show the collection pages by title, URL, subject, place, and language. O...

I was selected give a 5-minute faculty lightning talk at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in October in Baltimore.  Short talks are among the most difficult to prepare, especially short talks for a general audience. I decided to increase my level of difficulty for the talk by combining two topics in my 5-minute talk, information visualization (infovis) and web archiving. I ended up presenting a snapshot of the work that Kalpesh Padia and Yasmin AlNoamany did for their JCDL 2012 paper, Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It (see  related blog post ). Information Visualization - Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It from Michele Weigle The faculty lightning talks session was new at Grace Hopper, but went very well.  We had a 45-minute session and got to hear about 8 totally different research projects.  Info and slides from all of the presentations are available on the GHC wiki .  Especially for work-in-p...

Digital Preservation 2012 was held July 24-25 at the Sheraton Pentagon City in Arlington, Virginia. Previously the NDSA/NDIIPP ( @ndsa2 / @ndiipp ) Partner Meetup (see our trip report from 2011 ), this year's theme was "access to digital content under stewardship". A wide range of presentations were given on the full range of digital preservation topics. Four representatives from the ODU Web Sciences and Digital Libraries group attended to present their research and recent work in one of various realms within the field. WS-DL's Contributions to Digital Preservation 2012 Mat Kelly ( @machawk1 ) presented a demo of a Google Chrome extension he developed called WARCreate , as a further extension to the initial poster/demo presented at WS-DL's trip to JCDL this past June. WARCreate allows a user to create a Web ARChive (WARC) file from any viewable webpage. Mat's main focus was on preserving content behind aut...