Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

Considering the epidemic of COVID-19, when everything was uncertain, in early May 2020, I was accepted to Applied Machine Learning (AML) Summer Research Fellowship Program at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) . I can not be grateful enough to have this excellent opportunity when the world was suffering due to the epidemic caused by Novel Coronavirus. I was offered to work remotely due to the rise of coronavirus cases across the United States. Thus, I started working from home as a Research Intern at LANL on June 1, 2020, under the supervision of Dr. Diane Oyen and Dr. Kari Sentz . The research problem I mainly focused on  Offline Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition — a subcomponent project called Scientific Image Analysis . Remotely Working as a Research Intern Los Alamos National Laboratory is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC). Their top priority is to address research problems that focus on national security and 21st-cent...

https://xkcd.com/2347/ A record seven courses from the Web Science and Digital Libraries ( WS-DL ) Group will be offered in Fall 2020.  Because of Covid-19 , most of these classes will either be completely on-line or offered in a hybrid on-line / f2f option.  Check with the instructor to verify how the class will be conducted. CS 418/518 Web Programming , Dr. Jian Wu , Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:30-2:45. Topics : LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), MVC (Model-View-Control), Search Engines, GitHub  CS 432/532 Web Science , Dr. Michele C. Weigle , asynchronous.  Topics : Python, R, D3, ML, and IR.  CS 620 Intro to Data Science & Analytics , Dr. Sampath Jayarathna , Web PLE. Tuesdays 4:30-5:30pm (recitation). Topics : Python, Pandas, NumPy, NoSQL, Data Wrangling, ML CS 625 Data Visualization , Dr. Michele C. Weigle , Tuesdays & Thursdays 9:30-10:45. Topics : Tableau, R, Vega-Lite, Data Types, Maps, Colors, Tables CS 795/895 Mining Scholarly Bi...

Recently, I have been working on enhancing an old project, WhatDidItLookLike . This project focuses on summarizing a URI by generating an animated GIF of what it looked like over the years. Users send in requests by simply tweeting out #whatdiditlooklike [URI].  . @acnwala , https://t.co/ZJweNxx5EC (CNN - Breaking News, Latest News and Vi...) has been posted: https://t.co/NCOiZZr2Yc — whatdiditlooklike (@_wdill) October 26, 2018 A screenshot for the first memento of each year is captured for the requested URI. These screenshots are then combined and used to generate a GIF. Currently, the GIF is posted to Tumblr and it can be viewed at whatdiditlooklike.mementoweb.org .  https://whatdiditlooklike.mementoweb.org/post/179447252314/what-did-httpswwwcnncom-look-like-from-2000 My goal was to share this GIF on Instagram. Instagram does not support GIFs so a workaround is to post a video instead. Using Instagram on a browser with a mobile device user-agent allows the user to post...

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...

20th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Libraries (JCDL 2020) was hosted virtually (due to the COVID-19 pandemic ) jointly by the School of Information Management at Wuhan University and the School of Public Administration at Northwest University , between August 1 - 5, 2020 in Wuhan, Hubei, China. Similar to last year's conference, we (members of WSDL ) attended paper sessions, workshops (Web Archiving and Digital Libraries), and tutorials, where researchers from multiple disciplines presented their work via Zoom. The theme of this year's conference was "Speedier Innovation, Sustainable Development, Societal Transformation". On 1st of August, Yasith Jayawardana (PhD student of  WSDL ) attended the JCDL 2020 Doctoral Consortium . It took place immediately preceding the technical program of JCDL 2020 . The Doctoral Consortium event allows students to present their thesis and research plans and receive feedback and general advice from the others i...