Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

Image is taken from  Wikipedia Indonesia and Australia are neighboring countries that, just like what always happens between neighbors, have a hot-and-cold relationship. The History has recorded a number of disputes between Indonesia and Australia, from East Timor disintegration (now Timor Leste) in 1999 to the Bali Nine case (the execution of Australian drug smugglers) in 2015. One of the issues that has really caused a stir in Indonesia-Australia's relationship is the spying imbroglio conducted by Australia toward Indonesia. The tension arose when an Australian newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald published an article titled Exposed: Australia's Asia spy network and a video titled Spying at Australian diplomatic facilities on October 31st, 2013. It revealed one of Edward Snowden 's leaks that Australia had been spying on Indonesia since 1999. This startling fact surely enraged Indonesia's government and, most definitely, the people of Indonesia. In...

The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group had a really good year in 2013.  There was a burst of student progress in 2012 and there will likely be more in 2014, but in 2013: Mat Kelly passed his breadth exam Sawood Alam finished his MS thesis , entered the PhD program, and passed the breadth exam We (along with many co-authors at other institutions) were involved with 22 publications, including new venues for our group as well as very strong showings at traditional ones such as JCDL (pictured above) and TPDL: one Internet RFC (Memento) one beta specification (ResourceSync) one poster at IEEE VIS one paper at the WWW developer track two papers at the Temporal Web Workshop two D-Lib Magazine articles two technical reports four full papers and three posters at JCDL five full papers at TPDL Two of the papers received recognition: Scott Ainsworth's paper " Evaluating sliding and sticky target policies by measuring temporal drift in acyclic walks thro...

test On November 12, I attended the 2013 Archive-It Partner Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, our research group's second year of attendance (see 2012 Trip Report ). The meeting started off casually at 9am with breakfast and registration. Once everyone was settled, Kristine Hanna , the Director of Archiving Services at Internet Archive introduced her team that was present of the meeting. Kristine acknowledged the fire at Internet Archive last week and the extent of the damage. "It did burn to the ground but thankfully, nobody was injured." She reminded the crowd of partners to review Archive-It 's storage and preservation policy and mentioned the redundancies in-place, including a soon-to-be mirror at our very own ODU. Kristine then mentioned news of a new partnership with Reed Technologies to jointly market and sell Archive-It ( @archiveitorg ). She reassured the audience that nothing would change beyond having more resources for them to accomplish their goals....

Everyday we create more and more digital files that record our lives.  We take selfies (with and without our loved ones).  We record our baby's first step.  We take pictures of things that we have or would like to have.  The number of digital file and artifacts we create grows and grows and the places where we can store them seem to have almost infinite capacity.  Smart phones with 64Gigabytes of storage, could hold almost 20,000 MP3 files (roughly 1,000 hours of listening time, or about 6 months of listening 8 hours a day).  Amateur cameras can have the same amount of storage, and depending on image size and frames per second can store days of continuous recordings or about 500,000 still images.  We can and are creating more digital artifacts than we can manage.  Being able to create so much, means we don't care about what we create.  We create because it is easy.  We create because it is fun.  We create because we have a new toy...

If you recall, way back in 2012, Kalpesh Padia (now at N.C. State under Christopher Healey ) and Yasmin AlNoamany ( @yasmina_anwar ) presented "Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It", a paper presented at JCDL 2012 , which was the product of Dr. Michele C. Weigle's ( @weiglemc ) pair of infovis-related courses at Old Dominion University (ODU): CS825 - Information Visualization and CS895 - Applied Visual Analytics . Like Kalpesh and Yasmin, I have turned a semester project into a conference submission with a poster/demo accepted to IEEE VIS 2013: Graph-Based Navigation of a Box Office Prediction System . The impetus for this strangely out-of-topic (for this blog's theme) submission has roots in the IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Challenge, a competition where a large data set is supplied to contestants and a meaningful visual representation is created with each submission. Both Kalpesh and I had previously participated in the VAST ...