Web archive collection summarization is a topic we (WS-DL Group, ODU CS) have been interested in for a while. Shawn M. Jones, PhD / @[email protected]'s dissertation created the Dark and Stormy Archives (DSA) Framework, which surfaced a small number of exemplars for summarization. oduwsdl.github.io/dsa/

DSA was created pre-LLM, so the tools were not available then, and perhaps more importantly, the prevalence and users' acceptance of the "chat" modality. A hybrid (LLM & exemplar) model would be an exciting avenue of study. blog: lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2024/02/1…

Lesley Frew Michael L. Nelson WS-DL Group, ODU CS Found a friend 😉 Michael L. Nelson WS-DL Group, ODU CS at #ipres2024

PhD🎓✅ #odu2024 #ODUgrad Just published my PhD wrap-up blog! Check it out for a look back at my journey. #PhDWrapUpBlog WS-DL Group, ODU CS nirds-lab ODU Computer Science Old Dominion University ws-dl.blogspot.com/2024/09/gavind…

Some webpages are immortal, but most are ephemeral. Our preliminary report on our study of 27M webpages archived by @WaybackMachine. WS-DL Group, ODU CS Internet Archive Filecoin Foundation ODU Computer Science 🧵 1/ ws-dl.blogspot.com/2024/09/2024-0…

We sampled from 25 years of data from Wayback, collecting about 1M URLs that were first archived in each year between 1996-2021. Then we re-crawled them in 2023. Authors: Kritika garg Sawood Alam Dietrich Ayala Michele Weigle Michael L. Nelson 2/

Our high-level results: * Only 35.3% of the webpages were still alive in 2023 * The median lifespan of a URL (for those dead in 2023) is **2.3 years** 3/

We found that 83% of our sample was not crawled at all in 2023. If Wayback stops crawling a URL, it's likely to have died. In fact, if a URL has not been archived successfully for many years, most likely it's dead. 4/

We found, not surprisingly, that the lifespan of root URLs was much longer than that of deeplinks. * root: 10% died within a year, ~50% lived > 10 years * deep: 42% died within a year 5/

Original blog post describing the project: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2021/10/2021-1… 6/

As the road to earning a Ph.D. is long but well worth the wait, the Women in Science & Engineering (WISE) took time to meet and build community and belonging. Support is important and these #astounding ladies are resilient and purpose driven! #WOMENINSTEM #Monarchpride

New study highlighting the critical role of web archives & the The Wayback Machine in preserving web content at risk of disappearing ⬇️ Authors: Kritika garg, Sawood Alam, Dietrich Ayala, Michele Weigle, Michael L. Nelson

I am excited to share that I presented our paper, "ETD-MS v2.0: A Proposed Extended Standard for Metadata of Electronic Theses and Dissertations," at the ETD 2024 conference in Livingstone, Zambia! #ETD2024 WS-DL Group, ODU CS Jian Wu Bill Ingram ⛵️

I am glad to announce that my first PhD student Muntabir Hasan Choudhury successfully defended his dissertation today. Congratulations! Muntabir Hasan Choudhury WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science

I'm migrating my social media presence away from here and over to Mastodon (digipres.club/@weiglemc) and LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/michele-wei…). These links and more are on my ODU Computer Science webpage at cs.odu.edu/~mweigle/ (redirects to weiglemc.github.io). WS-DL Group, ODU CS

Our hard work paid off😄🥳 So glad we went for it, even with all the other stuff on our plates! A big thanks to Computer Science Graduate Society - ODU for organizing this event! 👏 Kritika garg Kumushini Thennakoon #AllGirlsTeam #girlpower #WomenInSTEM #Steminist #CSGSHackathon2024 ODU Computer Science Old Dominion University ODU College of Sciences

This summer, I had the opportunity to participate in the COVES Policy Fellowship (COVES Fellowship) hosted by VASEM. During the fellowship, I worked at Joint Commission on Technology and Science (JCOTS). nirds-lab WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science ODU College of Sciences Blog: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2024/11/2024-1…

In a guest WS-DL Group, ODU CS post, Herbert Van de Sompel (@hvdsompl) discusses the recent move to register "doi:" as a URI scheme with IANA. TL;DR: It's likely more about branding than actual utility. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2024/11/2024-1…

I don't remember this game, but back in the day I typed in my share of source code from magazines like ANALOG, Antic, and SoftSide. Nostalgia aside, it was really awful: it took forever, saving to tape was slow, & most of the games were bad. But what else were you going to do?

✍️WS-DL Group, ODU CS Trip Report from ACM CIKM 2024 in Boise, ID is now posted! ✨ Check out the highlights, brought to you by Lesley Frew, Gangani Ariyarathne, and I: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2024/11/2024-1… Michele Weigle Michael L. Nelson Alexander C. Nwala #CIKM2024