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himarshaj.bsky.social @himarshaj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And that’s a wrap on #TPDL2026! Closing remarks by José Barateiro, followed by Gianmaria Silvello announcing #TPDL2027 in Venice, Italy! 🇮🇹 - inviting everyone to return next year and, of course, to start working on those papers! @webscidl.bsky.social, @skandasiva.bsky.social

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himarshaj.bsky.social @himarshaj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The final session of #TPDL2026! Session 8 - AI, Human Judgement, and Public Information Practices The papers are available to download: tpdl2026.ualg.pt/program/ @webscidl.bsky.social @skandasiva.bsky.social

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himarshaj.bsky.social @himarshaj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The final day of #TPDL2026 is today! 🎤 Day 3 begins with the conference’s third keynote: “Temporal Intelligence in Language Technologies: Modeling, Retrieval, and Reasoning” by Adam Jatowt @webscidl.bsky.social @skandasiva.bsky.social

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himarshaj.bsky.social @himarshaj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

At the #TPDL2026 conference dinner! ⛴️🌊 A beautiful ferry ride across the Ria Formosa to Elementos Faro for dinner by the waterfront ✨ A great way to wrap up another conference day! @webscidl.bsky.social @skandasiva.bsky.social

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himarshaj.bsky.social @himarshaj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#TPDL2026 Session 6 First presentation: Using Hierarchical Controlled Vocabularies to Understand CLIP Retrieval Failures in Historical Photo Collections By Ratan Sebastian Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2607.19836 @webscidl.bsky.social, @skandasiva.bsky.social

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himarshaj.bsky.social @himarshaj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#TPDL2026 Session 6 · LLMs and Multimodal Models for Knowledge Discovery is happening now! Chaired by Anett Hope. The papers are available to download: tpdl2026.ualg.pt/program/

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himarshaj.bsky.social @himarshaj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#TPDL2026 Main Conference - Day 2 kicks off with the second keynote 🎤 “Transitive Credit Allocation for Heterogeneous and Dynamic Scholarly Graphs” By Gianmaria Silvello, Professor at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua @webscidl.bsky.social, @skandasiva.bsky.social

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himarshaj.bsky.social @himarshaj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A few captures from the #TPDL2026 social event yesterday evening 📸🇵🇹 A tour of the Faro Museum, followed by a walk through the beautiful Old Town of Faro. A lovely way to wrap up the day, made extra special with our little one by our side 💕 @webscidl.bsky.social, @skandasiva.bsky.social

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Luca @sciencialab.com · 23/09/2026

At #TPDL2026 in Faro ☀️: 🔹 Today, Michael Paris presents our Common Crawl paper on what web crawlers actually see 🔹 Thu afternoon I demo the INRIA DataLake: HAL papers → structured knowledge + software mentions Come say hi! #DigitalLibraries #CommonCrawlFoundation #Grobid

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himarshaj.bsky.social @himarshaj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#TPDL2026 Session 1: Data Management Plans and FAIR Assessment is happening now! Chaired by Ralf Krestel. The papers are available to download: tpdl2026.ualg.pt/program/

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himarshaj.bsky.social @himarshaj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#TPDL2026 Main Conference - Day 1 kicks off with the first keynote! 🎤 “Knowledge Beyond Documents: FAIR Ontologies for Humans and Machines” by María Poveda-Villalón @webscidl.bsky.social, @skandasiva.bsky.social

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himarshaj.bsky.social @himarshaj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

📍 #TPDL2026 in Faro, Portugal 🇵🇹 Happening now: InfoVis-DL — Information Visualization in Digital Libraries: Multi-modal Applications to Cultural Heritage Collections. Excited for a great workshop and discussions! @webscidl.bsky.social @phonedudemln.bsky.social @weiglemc.bsky.social

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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

2026 WS-DL Research Expo Tuesday, June 23, 2pm EDT All are welcome: members, alumni, friends, etc. github.com/oduwsdl/2026... 5 students, 1 from each @webscidl.bsky.social prof, will give a ~15 min summary of their current research. Status updates from profs & alumni too! (zoom link in repo)

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GitHub - oduwsdl/2026-research-expo: 2026 ODU Web Science and Digital Libraries (WSDL) Research Expo

2026 ODU Web Science and Digital Libraries (WSDL) Research Expo - oduwsdl/2026-research-expo

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himarshaj.bsky.social @himarshaj.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Excited to share that I passed my PhD proposal defense on April 24, 2026 -- another step closer to finishing my PhD 🎓 Special thanks to my dissertation committee: @weiglemc.bsky.social, @phonedudemln.bsky.social, @acnwala.bsky.social, & Erika Frydenlund for their guidance & support.

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himarshaj.bsky.social @himarshaj.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

What does it take to teach a senior/grad-level database course for the first time? I share my experience teaching CS 450/550 in Spring 2026, a semester that pushed me beyond research into teaching and learning. ✍️ WS-DL blog: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/06/2026... @webscidl.bsky.social #oducs

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2026-06-09: Teaching Database Concepts for Senior Undergraduate and Graduate Students at ODU

The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

(2) Give authors of papers the ability to edit the AI-generated summary. Ideally directly, but if that's not possible, to easily request a change. (3) Give authors the ability to opt out of having an AI summary on their paper entirely. (Or require an opt in.)

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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

On Thursday, May 14 2026, we held our WSDL gathering at Hank’s Filling Station. It also served as a promotion and tenure party for Vikas Ashok. Himarsha and Skanda brought the future WSDL member (and shared her with others), and former members were there too (Sawood, Yasith, Gavindya).

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 27/10/2025

Planning the coming weekend, San Francisco? Celebrate 1 trillion pages archived on the #WaybackMachine with art at Internet Archive x Gray Area. 📅 Sat, Nov 1, 2025 🕗 5 PM PT 📍 Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave, San Francisco 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1872604563... @GrayArea.org #Wayback1T

A vertical trio of digital artworks. The top panel shows hand-drawn icons—a hand, compass, cloud, and eye—connected by a dotted path on a pink gradient background. The middle panel displays floating, distorted names on a grid of Internet Archive logos. The bottom panel features a pixelated circular form resembling an eye with pink pixel blossoms on a white background.

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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

To study Twitter is to study archived Twitter. And if you're replaying archived pages, you need to be familiar with the different generations of UIs. Tarannum Zaki of @webscidl.bsky.social explores and classifies the different UIs. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...

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2025-10-26: Exploring the Different Generations of Twitter/X's Tweet UI

The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.

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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

8 @webscidl.bsky.social classes for Fall 2025: CS 418/518 Web Programming CS 432/532 Web Science CS 433/533 Web Security CS 620 Intro to Data Science CS 625 Data Vis CS 733/833 NLP CS 734/834 Info Retrieval CS 795/895 Foundational Models for Data Science ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/08/2025...

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2025-08-18: Eight WSDL Classes Offered for Fall 2025

The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.

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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Lesley's "welcome to WSDL" post from 2022 ws-dl.blogspot.com/2022/01/2022... and the wrap-up post for her MS thesis “Surfacing Text Changes in Archived Webpages” ws-dl.blogspot.com/2024/10/2024...

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2024-10-02: MS Thesis: Surfacing Text Changes in Archived Webpages

The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.

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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

@webscidl.bsky.social's own Lesley Frew! big congrats to @weiglemc.bsky.social for recruiting her. www.odu.edu/article/odu-...

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ODU Helps Fill Virginia's Need for More Computer Science Teachers

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himarshaj.bsky.social @himarshaj.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Excited to share that I’ve been selected as a Google Summer of Code 2025 contributor 🤩 I’ll be working with @archive.org this summer, mentored by @ibnesayeed.bsky.social 😇 #GSoC2025, @mark.bsky.social, @webscidl.bsky.social, @weiglemc.bsky.social, @phonedudemln.bsky.social, @acnwala.bsky.social

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himarshaj.bsky.social @himarshaj.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Had an amazing time representing @webscidl.bsky.social, ODU at the #CAPWIC2025 in Washington, D.C., alongside Kritika, @Lesley, Yasasi, & Kumushini 😃 @weiglemc.bsky.social, @phonedudemln.bsky.social , @openmaze.bsky.social , @nirdslab.bsky.social #WomenInTech #WomenInSTEM 👩‍💻💪

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himarshaj.bsky.social @himarshaj.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

We analyzed 100 tweets with TextBlob, VADER, RoBERTa & six human raters – measuring agreement with Cohen’s & Fleiss’ Kappa. Spoiler: Consensus was hard to find🤔 Read more at our latest @webscidl.bsky.social blog: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/03/2025... @weiglemc.bsky.social @phonedudemln.bsky.social

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2025-03-26: A Battle of Opinions: Tools vs. Humans (and Humans vs. Humans) in Sentiment Analysis

The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.

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Michele Weigle @weiglemc.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Congratulations to Tarannum Zaki for passing her PhD candidacy exam based on her work using web archives to verify the attribution of screenshots of tweets. @webscidl.bsky.social @phonedudemln.bsky.social

“Web archives for verifying attribution in Twitter screenshots” presented by Tarranum Zaki with her committee: Michele Weigle, Jian Wu, Michael Nelson, Vikas Ashok, and Sampath Jayarathna

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Shawn M. Jones, PhD @shawnmjones.org · 28/09/2023

Yesterday at TPDL 2023 Herman Kroll and Mirjam Cuper presented “Aspect-Driven Structuring of Historical Dutch Newspaper Archives” The authors discussed the challenges work with a corpus with unreliable OCR, inconsitent metadata, and the licensing restrictions. Ref: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

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Shawn M. Jones, PhD @shawnmjones.org · 28/09/2023

Yesterday at TPDL 2023 Gianmaria Silvello presented“How to Cite a Web Ranking and Make it #FAIR” Silvello presented a prototype that captures search engine results in a human- and machine-readable format and posts it to Zenodo for DOI citing. Ref: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

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Shawn M. Jones, PhD @shawnmjones.org · 28/09/2023

Yesterday at TPDL 2023 David Pride presented “CORE-GPT: Combining Open Access research and large language models for credible, trustworthy question answering” Pride’s prototype provides answers that combine search results with GPT’s summarization abilities. Ref: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

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Shawn M. Jones, PhD @shawnmjones.org · 28/09/2023

Beatrice Alex is giving the 2nd TPDL 2023 keynote “AI language technologies and digital collections: the need for interdisciplinary communication and co-design and training” - How can we invite AI into the archive? * www.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-b... * www.ltg.ed.ac.uk * www.ed.ac.uk/usher/clinic...

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Shawn M. Jones, PhD @shawnmjones.org · 26/09/2023

Zadar, Croatia is pretty. The TPDL 2023 conference starts later today. I cannot wait. (I also have jet lag, but I’m fighting through it.) Conference website: tpdl2023.dei.unipd.it/index.html

Pedestrians walk by awnings and cafe tables amidst a variety of architectural eras on a busy street in Zadar, Croatia.

Cars sit parked outside of the arch providing entry at Porta di Terraferma in Zadar, Croatia.

A line of broken columns, a circular building, and a steeple are some of the ancient ruins at the Roman Forum in Zadar, Croatia.

Many boats float along the waterfront of Zadar, Croatia.

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Shawn M. Jones, PhD @shawnmjones.org · 27/09/2023

Zvjezdan Penezić, Marijana Tomić, and Gianmaria Silvello are kicking off TPDL 2023! Acceptance: * 33% of full papers * 18% of full papers were accepted as short papers * 40% short papers Proceedings are available now: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Zvjezdan Penezić is kicking off TPDL 2023.

Marijana Tomić is kicking off TPDL 2023.

Gianmaria Silvello is kicking off TPDL 2023.

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