Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

The Sapien Labs Virtual Symposium on The Future of Mental Health: Measurement, Treatment and Therapies was held virtually via Adobe Connect on 2-3 November 2020.   The symposium consisted of 2 sessions on each day.  Each session would begin with multiple presentations.  The presenters in each session would also join in a moderated panel discussion in the second half of that session.  Founder and CEO of Sapien Labs , Dr. Tara Thiagarajan , hosted the virtual symposium, introduced many of the speakers, and led multiple panel discussions. Symposium Day 1 Session 1 : Dr. Eiko Fried  from Leiden University   started the first session's presentations with his talk on "Measure Matters: Challenges to Assessing Mental Health Problems Pose a Substantial Barrier to Clinical Progress."  Dr. Fried stated that while proper measurement is critical, it is difficult especially when attempting to measure individuals' internal states to include personality, cognition, and mental healt

  The I nternational Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications (WOSP) started in 2012. The main theme is to use Natural Language Processing (NLP) and text mining tools to aid knowledge creation and improve the process by which the research is done. This year, due to the unprecedented pandemic by COVID-19, the entire workshop is moved online on August 5th, right after JCDL 2020. The workshop this year was organized by CORE , The Open University , UK, in collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) , Tennessee, US. Keynotes Kuansan Wang (MSR Outreach Academic Services). Kuansan's presentation titled " Mitigating document collection biases with citations: A case study on CORD-19 ". Kuansan's presentation addressed a very important problem: document collection bias when conducting statistical analysis on distribution over subject fields, journal importance, and author networks. By comparing the properties of corpora selected by their algorithms, they had two

The 21st International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science (IRI 2020) was held virtually (due to the COVID-19 pandemic ) instead of Las Vegas as originally planned. IRI 2020 was hosted by the University of Cincinnati, USA , between August 11 - 13, 2020. This conference explores three major tracks: (1) information reuse, (2) information integration, and (3) reusable systems. This conference serves as a forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present, discuss, and exchange ideas that address real-world problems with real-world solutions. Both theoretical and applied papers are included in IRI 2020. Similar to last year's conference ( IRI 2019 ), IRI 2020 program included paper sessions, workshops, panels and keynote speeches. Most of them were held in parallel sessions. Day 1 Welcome Following Stuart Rubin 's welcome note, Chengcui Zhang from University of Alabama at

The 2020 Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries ( TPDL 2020 ) was planned to take place in Lyon, France, but was virtually hosted via Big Blue Button . It was a joint conference with ADBIS 2020 and EDA 2020 . TPDL was a fascinating look into the various projects and research efforts undertaken by members of the digital library community. Due to the time zone differences and technical issues, I could not attend all sessions. As usual, I will summarize some of those I have attended here. On the Persistence of Persistent Identifiers of the Scholarly Web Martin Klein  and Lyudmila Balakireva , my teammates from the  Los Alamos Laboratory Research Library Prototyping Team , won the best paper award at TPDL 2020 for " On the Persistence of Persistent Identifiers of the Scholarly Web ."  On the Persistence of Persistent Identifiers of the Scholarly Web from Martin Klein In their paper, Martin and Luda investigated how consistently scholarly publishers respond to common H

This year, the Web Archiving and Digital Libraries 2020 Workshop ( #WADL2020 ) was held on August 5, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the workshop was held virtually. As it had been in previous years, it was organized by  Dr. Zhiwu Xie , Dr. Martin Klein , and Dr. Edward A. Fox . Contributions from the Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group ( WSDL ) at Old Dominion University included multiple presentations from different members of the group. @edwardafox and Zhiwu Xie from @virginia_tech starting off the Workshop 6: "Web Archiving and Digital libraries" #WADL2020 #JCDL2020 . The workshop started with participants introducing themselves. @WebSciDL pic.twitter.com/UtJnffpBuL — Yasith Jayawardana (@yasithmilinda) August 5, 2020 Tian Xia from the Renmin University of China gave a keynote talk titled “The practice and inspiration of Web Archiving in China”. His talk covered different web archiving initiatives in China, their practices for web archiving, and ch