Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

Hello  WSDL Blog  readers! My name is  James (Jim/Jimmy) Ecker  and I joined the  Web Science and Digital Libraries  (WS-DL) research group  at  Old Domin ion Un iversity  as a Ph.D student in Fall 2019. I decided to pursue a Ph.D to primarily refine my skills in research, academic writing, and presenting/communicating my work . I am being advised by  Michael Nelson .  In my time at ODU, I have taken  CS891 - Emerging Technologies , where we developed our academic presentation skills with respect to presenting research on various emerging technologies,  CS800 - Research Methods , where we further developed academic presentation and writing skills, and am currently taking  CS895 - Web Archiving Forensics , where we are developing more applied research skills to establish whether information being shared on the internet is authentic. I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from  Florida Southern College  (FSC) in my hometown of  Lakeland, Florida . There, I established the  Fl