Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

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

"Dad, he is pushing random doorbell buttons", Dr. Herzog 's daughter complained about her brother while we were walking back home late night after having dinner in the city center of Potsdam. Dr. Herzog smiled and replied, "it's rather a cool idea, let's all do it". Repeating the TPDL 2015 tradition , Dr. Michael Herzog's family was hosting me ( Sawood Alam ) at their place after the TPDL 2016 conference in Hannover . Leaving some cursing people behind (who were disturbed by false doorbells), he asked me, "how was your conference this year?" Day 1 Between the two parallel sessions of the first day, I attended the Doctoral Consortium session as a participant. The chair Kjetil Nørvåg , Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, began the session with the formal introduction of the session structure and timeline. Out of the seven accepted Doctoral Consortium submissions, only five could make it to the workshop. Õnne

Dodging the Memory Hole 2016 , held at UCLA's Charles Young Research Library in Los Angeles California, was a two-day event to discuss and highlight potential solutions to the issue of preserving born-digital news. Organized by Edward McCain  (digital curator of journalism at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute and University of Missouri Libraries) this event brought together technologists, archivists, librarians, journalists and fourteen graduate students who had won travel scholarships for attendance.  Among the attendees were four members of the WS-DL  group (l-r): Mat Kelly ,  John Berlin ,  Dr. Michael Nelson , and  Shawn Jones . The event was made possible by support from the  Reynolds Journalism Institute ,  Journalism Digital News Archive (JDNA) ,  UCLA Library ,  the Educopia  Institute   and the Institute of Museum and Library Services  (IMLS) . Day 1 (October 13, 2016) Day one started off at 9am with Edward McCain welcoming everyone to