Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

The Computer Science Graduate Society (CSGS) of the Old Dominion University organized a Hackathon from October 24 to November 1, 2024. The competition featured three teams from the master's category and three from the PhD category, each presenting innovative projects. Participants chose from five research topics provided by the organizing committee. Two teams from the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WSDL) research group participated in the hackathon: Binary Bandits ( David Calano and Dominik Soos ) and our team, Titans ( Himarsha Jayanetti , Kritika Garg , and Kumushini Thennakoon ).  We won the PhD category with our project, "Tracking Political Trends Around the US Presidential Election.” This was a mini project completed within a limited time frame, making it a fast-paced challenge. Despite the constraints, our team tackled various obstacles in collecting and analyzing data. In this blog post, we provide an overview of our project and highlight its key contribution...

The Archives Unleashed Datathon is a two-day event hosted by the Archive Unleashed team where participants from different research backgrounds collaborate together to explore web archive collections. The fourth Archives Unleashed datathon partnered with Columbia University Libraries  was supposed to happen in New York City. However, as the spread of COVID-19 cases began to increase, the organizers had to make the tough decision of canceling the New York datathon. Due to the rapidly-evolving COVID-19 situation, we have canceled the datathon which was to be held at Columbia University, March 26-27, 2020. This decision was not taken lightly and was made with the best interests of our attendees. We have been in touch with all attendees. — The Archives Unleashed Project (@unleasharchives) March 3, 2020 In the same email that brought the news of event cancellation, Ian Milligan also mentioned the possibility of organizing the event online through Zoom and ...