Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

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

CNN.com has been unarchivable since 2016-11-01T15:01:31 , at least by the common web archiving systems employed by the Internet Archive , archive.is , and webcitation.org . The last known correctly archived page in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is 2016-11-01T13:15:40 , with all versions since then producing some kind of error (including today's;   2017-01-20T09:16:50 ). This means that the most popular web archives have no record of the time immediately before the presidential election through at least today's presidential inauguration. Given the political controversy surrounding the election, one might conclude this is a part of some grand conspiracy equivalent to those found in the TV series The X-Files . But rest assured, this is not the case; the page was archived as is, and the reasons behind the archival failure are not as fantastical as those found in the show.  As we will explain below, other archival systems have successfully archived CNN.com

Myself standing at the main entrance of Langdell Hall I was honored with the great opportunity of collaborating with the Harvard Library Innovation Lab (LIL) as a Fellow this Summer. Located at Langdell Hall, Harvard Law School , the Library Innovation Lab develops solutions to solve serious problems facing libraries. It consists of an eclectic group of Lawyers, Librarians, and Software Developers engaged in projects such as  Perma.cc , Caselaw Access Project  (CAP), The Nuremberg Project , among many others .  The LIL Team To help prevent link ro t, Perma.cc creates permanent reliable links for web resources. The Caselaw Access Project is an ambitious project which strives to make all US case laws freely accessible online. The current collection to be digitized stands at over 42,000 volumes (nearly 40 million pages) . The Nuremberg Project is concerned with the digitization of LIL's collection about the Nuremberg trials.  How Harvard digitized nearly 40 million pa

Dr. Herzog : This large green area on your left is Sanssouci Park . It has 11 palaces in it. Yasmin : I want to visit this park after we are back from the university, can we? Dr. Herzog : We sure can... I think we will be back before sunset. Yasmin : I love beautiful things. Dr. Herzog : Who doesn't? Sawood : [Smiles] The three souls were heading to the Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal University from Potsdam, Germany in Dr. Michael Herzog 's car for a lunch lecture on the topic of Digital Preservation. Yasmin and Sawood from the Web Science and Digita Libraries Research Group of the Old Dominion University , Norfolk, Virginia were invited for the talk by Dr. Herzog at his SPiRIT Research Group . The two WSDL members have presented their work at TPDL 2015 in Poznan, Poland then on their way back home they ware halted and hosted by Dr. Herzog in Germany for the lunch lecture. You may also enjoy the TPDL 2015 trip report by Yasmin . Passing by beautiful landsc