Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

On March 29-30, 2017 I attended Personal Digital Archiving Conference 2017 ( #pda2017 ) held at Stanford University in sunny Palo Alto, California. Other members of the Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group (WS-DL) had previously attended this conference (see their 2013 , 2012 , and 2011 trip reports) and from their rave reviews of previous year's conferences, I was looking forward to it. I also just happened to be presenting and demoing the Web Archiving Integration Layer (WAIL) there as an added bonus. Day 1 Day one started off at 9am with Gary Wolf giving the first keynote on Quantified Self Archives . Quantified Self Archives are comprised of data generated from health monitoring tools such as the FitBit or life blogging data which is used to gain in sites into your own life through data visualization.  Gary Wolf kicking off #pda2017 . pic.twitter.com/X3pUOEddNs — John Berlin (@johnaberlin) March 29, 2017 @agaricus ...

The day before International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) General Assembly 2015 we landed in San Francisco and some delicious Egyptian dishes were waiting for us. Thank you Ahmed, Yasmin, Moustafa, Adrian, and Yusuf for hosting us. It was a great way to spend the evening before IIPC GA and we were delighted to see you people after long time. @WebSciDL reunion before #iipcGA15 @phonedude_mln @mart1nkle1n @yasmina_anwar @ibnesayeed @hvdsomp @mousta pic.twitter.com/orSFWGULSW — Ahmed AlSum (@aalsum) April 27, 2015 Day 1 We (Sawood Alam, Michael L. Nelson, and Herbert Van de Sompel) entered in the conference hall a few minutes after the session was started and Michael Keller from Stanford University Libraries was about to leave the stage after the welcome speech. IIPC Chair Paul Wagner gave brief opening remarks and invited the keynote speaker Vinton Cerf from Google on the stage. The title of the talk was " Digital Vellum: Interacting with Digi...