Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

Michael and I attended the NEH Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) Project Directors' Meeting and the "ODH at Ten" celebration  ( #ODHatTen ) on February 9 in DC.  We were invited because of our recent NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant,  "Visualizing Webpage Changes Over Time"  (described briefly in a previous blog post when the award was first announced), which is joint work with Pamela Graham and Alex Thurman  from  Columbia University Libraries and Deborah Kempe from the Frick Art Reference Library and NYARC . The presentations were recorded, so I expect to see a set of videos available in the future, as was done for the 2014 meeting  ( my 2014 trip report ).    Update: 2018 Lightning Round Talk Videos The afternoon keynote was given by  Kate Zwaard , Chief of National Digital Initiatives at the Library of Congress. She highlighted the great work being done at  LC Labs . Kate Zwaard is today's #ODHatTEN keynote! She's shared a

The crowds descended upon Arlington, Virginia for the 80th annual meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology . I attended this meeting to learn more about ASIS&T , including its special interest groups . Also attending with me was former ODU Computer Science student and current Los Alamos National Laboratory librarian Valentina Neblitt-Jones . Shawn and Valentina - ODU and Los Alamos National Lab #asist2017 pic.twitter.com/0hf6qvM5js — Valentina (@vneblitt) November 1, 2017 The ASIS&T team had organized a wonderful collection of panels, papers, and other activities for us to engage in. Plenary Speakers Richard Marks: Head of the PlayStation Magic Lab at Sony Interactive Entertainment Richard Marks talked about the importance of play to the human experience. He covered innovations at the Playstation Magic Lab in an effort to highlight possible futures of human-computer interaction. The goal of the laboratory is "experience engin

I attended a brief portion of IEEE VIS 2016 in Baltimore on Monday and Tuesday (returned to ODU on Wednesday for our celebration of the Internet Archive 's 20th anniversary ).  As the name might suggest, VIS is the main academic conference for visualization researchers and practitioners. I've taught our graduate Information Visualization course for several years ( project blog posts , project gallery ), so I've enjoyed being able to attend VIS occasionally. (Mat Kelly presented a poster in 2013 and wrote up a great trip report .) This year's conference was held at the Baltimore Hilton, just outside the gates of Oriole Park at Camden Yards.  If there had been a game, we could have watched during our breaks. My excuse to attend this year (besides the close proximity) was that another class project was accepted as a poster. Juliette Pardue, Mridul Sen ( @mridulish ), and Christos Tsolakis took a previous semester's project, FluNet Vis , and generalized it

On Monday (Sep 15), Michael and I attended the NEH Office of Digital Humanities Project Directors' Meeting at their new location in the Constitution Center in Washington, DC. We were invited based on our "Archive What I See Now" project being funded as a Digital Humanities Implementation Grant . There were two main goals of the meeting: 1) provide administrative information and advice to project directors and 2) allow project directors to give a 3 minute overview of their project to the general public. The morning was devoted the first goal.  One highlight for me was ODH Director Brett Bobley 's welcome in which he talked a bit about the history of the NEH (NEH's 50th anniversary is coming up in 2015).  The agency is currently in the process of digitizing their historical documents, including records of all of the grants that have been awarded (originally stored on McBee Key Sort cards ). He also mentioned the recent article "The Rise of the Machines&