Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

During September 14-19, I was honored to organize and participate in the Dagstuhl Seminar titled Open Scholarly Information Systems: Status Quo, Challenges, Opportunities . The seminar was held at Schloss Dagstuhl , a small castle-like computer science center in the west of Germany.  What is unique about Dagstuhl is that it is located in a wood, very isolated from big cities. The nearest town, Wadern, is 30 minutes on foot, and there is no public transportation. After landing at the huge Frankfurt airport, one has to take the train for 2 hrs from the regional train station to Türkismühle. Then you must take a taxi because there is no public transportation. Based on the recommendation of the Dagstuhl website, I had to reserve a taxi from Taxi Martin at least 3 days in advance. Of course, I had to reserve it again when I left at 4 am!  The whole building contains two parts: an old building, which was built 260 years ago, and a new building, built in 2001. The two buildings ...

This summer (summer of 2025), I got the opportunity to be a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) contributor . As a GSoC contributor, I worked with the TV News Archive at the Internet Archive under the mentorship of Dr. Sawood Alam , Research Lead of the Wayback Machine . Over the 12-week coding period, our project focused on detecting social media content in TV news, specifically through logo and post screenshot detection . Introduction  Information diffusion in social media has been well studied.  For example, social and political scientists have tracked how social movements like #MeToo spread on social media and estimated political leanings of social media users .  But one area that has yet to be studied is the reference of social media in conventional broadcast television news.  Our study aims to address this gap by analysing TV news broadcasts for references to social media. These references can be in many representations - on-screen text, verbal mentions by the host...