Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

(2018-06-08 update: as a result of community feedback, we replaced " identifier " with " cite-as ".  We chose to keep the examples below intact, but please substitute rel="cite-as" whenever you see rel="identifier". -- MLN&HVDS) Do you remember hearing about that study that found that people who are "good" at swearing actually have a large vocabulary, refuting the conventional wisdom about a "poverty-of-vocabulary"?  The DOI ( digital object identifier ) for the 2015 study is*: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2014.12.003 But if you read about it in the popular press, such as the Independent or US News & World Report , you'll see that they linked to: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S038800011400151X The problem is that although the DOI is the preferred link, browsers follow a series of redirects from the DOI to the ScienceDirect link, which is then displayed in the address bar of

Internet Archive & Libyan newspapers logos Colonel Gaddafi ruled Libya for 42 years after taking power from King Idris in a 1969 military coup . In August 2011, his regime was toppled in the so-called Arab Spring. For more than four decades, media in Libya was highly politicized to support Gaddafi’s regime and secure his power. After the Libyan revolution (in 2011), media became freed from the tight control of the government, and we have seen the establishment of tens if not hundreds of new media organizations. Here is an overview of one side, newspapers, of Gaddafi’s propaganda machine: 71 newspapers and magazines  All monitored and published by the Libyan General Press Corporation (LGPC)  The Jamahiriya News Agency (JANA) was the main source of domestic news  No real political function other than to polish the regime’s image  Publish information provided by the regime  The following are the Libyan most well-known newspapers which are all published by LGPC: All L

I’m currently teaching the undergraduate CS 462 Cybersecurity Fundamentals course which is delivered online using a combination of Blackboard and ODU’s Distance Learning PLE (personal learning environment). Although I’ve taught both online and on campus for many years, I was curious as to which institution initially helped to trigger the transition from physical campuses to the virtual environments used today. While people are paying a lot of attention to MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course) these days due to the sheer size of their enrollment, online learning has been around for quite some time. In the 1990s and 2000s, distance learning using the Internet was embraced by many universities seeking to include alternative modes of instruction for their students. I happened upon this interactive infographic created by a team of Ph.D.’s and NASA scientists at Post University  which depicts “ the Evolution of Distance Learning in Higher Education .” One milestone in the infographi

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