Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

    I've previously written about the Memento Damage project, originally started by Dr. Justin Brunelle , a Web service designed to estimate the amount of damage to a web archive by assessing it's missing resources. Previously, I had been specializating some of the project  while working on the Memento Tracer project, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation , to take special considerations regarding the damage weighting for Web hosted repository pages.  I have been making further updates to the Memento Damage project over the course of this year that helps improve this analysis and damage estimation. The most prominent is the implementation of a secondary crawler component for analyzing an archived repository and its source tree. Web-hosted Git repositories are hosted on centralized Web platforms, the largest being GitHub along with other major platforms such as GitLab, Bitbucket, and Sourceforge. The source files for a Git project are hosted "behind the scen...

  Having a personal website is essential for anyone in academia. An academic portfolio website allows graduate students, faculty, and researchers to showcase their work, achievements, and expertise in a professional and easily accessible manner. It serves as a dynamic resume, offering potential employers, collaborators, and students a comprehensive view of the person’s academic contributions and capabilities. By maintaining a well-organized online presence, you get the chance to enhance your visibility, strengthen connections within your field of research, and ensure that your work reaches a broader audience. Most importantly, this strategy increases the likelihood that you will appear in a professional manner through search engine results when someone Googles your name. Figure 1: Homepage of the Academi c Portfolio Template While heavy frameworks and complex templates offer numerous features and capabilities, they are not always the best option for academic portfolio websites. ...

(Sung to the tune of "How Much is that Doggie in the Window") Who is that person in the picture? The one with the light brown hair. Who is that person in the picture? I do hope that someone would share. Introduction Often times when a group gets together, for whatever reason, there will be a group picture at the end to commemorate the good times had by all. If this "sea of faces" gets published, in hard or soft copy, there may be a one or two line caption giving the name of the group and perhaps where and when the image was created. Six months or a year later, the image has only marginal value to the people who were there, and almost no value to those who were not there, because it is just a sea of faces. We are interested in finding a low cost (very little human time) method of providing a way to add value to the soft copy of the image, so the image will have greater value later. We have developed a Python script that uses a Haar facial detection cascade to create ...