Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

Trip Report for the Web Archiving and Digital Libraries Workshop 2016 in Newark, NJ.                            Following our recent trip to the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) , WS-DL attempted the Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) Workshop ( #wadl2016 ) (see 2015 and 2013 reports) co-located with the conference in Newark, New Jersey. This post documents the presentations and our take-home from the workshop. On Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at around 2pm, Ed Fox of Virginia Tech welcomed the crowd of 30+ librarians, researchers, and archivists into the two half-day event by first introducing Vinay Goel ( @vinaygo ) of Internet Archive (IA) to lead the panel of "Worldwide Activities on Web Archiving". Vinay described the recent efforts by IA to make the archives more accessible through additional interfaces to the archive's holdings. As occurred at Archives Unleashed 2.0 Datathon earlier this month, Vinay demoed the then restricted a

Good morning Newark! Beautiful start for the doctoral consortium and tutorials at #jcdl2016 pic.twitter.com/kEBdJtvIho — Michele Weigle (@weiglemc) June 19, 2016 The ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries ( JCDL ) is a major international conference that offers the opportunity to address technical, practical, and social issues associated with digital libraries. This annual conference was held at the Paul Robeson Campus Center, Rutgers University Newark, New Jersey, between June 19-23, 2016. Here is a list of the accepted papers  and posters/demos . The theme for this year's conference was Big Libraries, Big Data, Big Innovation. Computer/Information scientists, Librarians, Archivists, Social scientists, Historians and other participants from around the world and other disciples involved in digital library research and practice presented papers and posters, specialized workshops ( see Mat's blog post about the WADL workshop ), tutorials, panels, and a docto

I was fortunate to present a poster at the 25th International World Wide Web Conference , held from April 11, 2016 - April 15, 2016. Though my primary mission was to represent both the WS-DL and the LANL Prototyping Group , I gained a better appreciation for the state of the art of the World Wide Web.  The conference was held in Montréal, Canada at the Palais des congrés de Montéal . SAVE-SD 2016 I began the conference at the  SAVE-SD  workshop, focusing on the semantics, analytics, and visualization of scholarly data.  They had 6 full research papers, 2 position papers, and 2 poster papers.  The acceptance rate for this conference is relatively high.  The conference was kicked off by Alejandra Gonzales-Beltran and Francesco Osborne. They encouraged the use of Research Articles in Simplified HTML . Alex Wade gave us an introduction to the Microsoft Academic Service (MAS) and a sneak peek at the new features offered by Microsoft Academic , such as the Microsoft Academ