Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

It was a fine afternoon and I had just finished my weekly meeting with my advisor Michael L. Nelson in which we discussed a few potential topics for my doctoral research after completing my masters degree . I dropped my meeting notes on the desk of my cubicle and went downstairs for a walk in the Old Dominion University (ODU) campus. It was a pleasant sunny weather outside, so I sat on a bench near a small pond behind the Computer Science building to enjoy the fountain in the pond and to observe turtles taking sun bath, of which, a few small ones were stacked on the backs of the big ones. I noticed a long-stem grass around the edge of the pond that reminded me of a grass we used to use for crafting in my village in India during my childhood. I picked a few stems, took them upstairs, washed them, weaved them into a bird, and hanged the bird from the wall of my cubicle. Later, it was moved to the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WSDL) Research Group 's PhD Crush board where it dr...

I have been working on an IIPC funded project of profiling various web archives to summarize their holdings . The idea is to generate statistical measures of the holdings of an archive under various lookup keys where a key can be a partial URI such as Top Level Domain (TLD), registered domain name, entire domain name along with any number of sub-domain segments, domain name and a few segments from the path, a given time, a language, or a combination of two or more of these. Such a document (or archive profile) can be used answer queries like "how many *.edu Mementos are there in a given archive?", "how many copies of the pages are there in an archive that fall under netpreserve.org/projects/* ", or "number of copies of *.cnn.com/* pages of 2010 in Arabic language". The archive profile can also be used to determine the overlap between two archives or visualize their holdings in various ways. Early work of this research was presented at the Internet...