Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

  I had a paper accepted to the Drawings and abstract Imagery: Representation and Analysis (DIRA) workshop, allowing me to attend the 17 th European Conference on Computer Vision 2022 (ECCV 2022) in Tel Aviv, Israel, from October 23 - 27. ECCV 2022 is a large conference with attendees from more than 76 countries. More than 3,200 people attended ECCV 2022 in person, and 1,800 more attended virtually. ECCV 2022 was my first Computer Vision conference and perhaps the largest academic conference I have attended to date. ECCV 2022 is a premier conference for computer vision. The conference contains work from many corners of computer vision, from detecting and processing text in images to generating full images based on text prompts. ECCV 2022’s organizers came from a wide variety of universities and industry, including places like Harvard , Meta , Kyoto University , IBM Research , and USC . ...

Why visualize individual web pages? A variety of visualizations of individual web pages exist, but why do we need them when we can just choose a URI from a list and put it in our web browser? URIs are intended to be opaque : text from the underlying web resource does not need to exist in the URI. Consider http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00799-016-0200-8. Where does it go? Should we click on it? What content exists under the veil of the URI? Will it meet our needs? Now consider this web page surrogate produced by embed.ly for the same URI: Avoiding spoilers: wiki time travel with Sheldon Cooper A variety of fan-based wikis about episodic fiction (e.g., television shows, novels, movies) exist on the World Wide Web. These wikis provide a wealth of information about complex stories, but if... If we were looking for research papers about avoiding spoilers for TV shows, then we know that clicking on this surrogate will take us to something that meets our information needs. If we ...

Fig.1 Link TheFoundingSon Web Cache Fig.2 TheFoundingSon Archived Post In a recent article in Wired, " Yup, the Russian propagandists were blogging lies on Medium too ," Matt Burgess makes reference to three now-suspended Twitter accounts: @TheFoundingSon  ( archived ), @WadeHarriot  ( archived ), and @jenn_abrams  ( archived ), and their activity on the blogging service Medium . Fig.3 TheFoundingSon Suspended Medium Account Burgess reports that these accounts were suspended on Twitter and Medium, and quotes a Medium spokesperson as saying:  With regards to the recent reporting around Russian accounts specifically, we’re paying close attention and working to ensure that our trust and safety processes continue to evolve and identify any accounts that violate our rules. Unfortunately, to provide evidence of the pages' former content, Burgess links to Google caches instead of web archives.  At the time of this writing, two of the three links fo...