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infoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

IMLS Grant Awarded on Identifying and Preserving Web Resources Referenced in Archived U.S. Local and National Television News (via @webscidl.bsky.social) ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/08/2026... #funding #mediapreservation #digipres #media #tvnews #video @archive.org

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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Happy that this is finally published! A discussion about social media screenshots that we factored out of our research pubs about determining real vs. fake attribution in screenshots. Screenshots are still bad, mkay, but there are a lot of valid reasons why they are used. @webscidl.bsky.social

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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Six WSDL @webscidl.bsky.social courses offered for Fall 2026: CS 418/518 Web Programming CS 432/532 Web Science CS 620 Intro to Data Science & Analytics CS 625 Data Vis CS 733/833 Natural Language Processing CS 795/895 Foundational Models for Data Science ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/08/2026...

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2026-08-23: Six WSDL Classed Offered for Fall 2026

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Alexander C. Nwala @acnwala.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'm humbled to share that our project, "CiteCast: Linking US local & national television news to cited web resources," has been selected to receive an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants - Libraries award. www.imls.gov/grants/award...

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Jian Wu @fanchyna.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I am excited to receive the NSF REU award to support undergraduate students in researching Human-AI Interaction and Evaluation in Web and Information Systems. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/08/2026... Thanks, NSF, and all mentors! @webscidl.bsky.social @phonedudemln.bsky.social

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2026-08-03: REU Renewal Proposal Awarded by NSF

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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Jian Wu @fanchyna.bsky.social and WSDL @webscidl.bsky.social are on a heater -- we just received official confirmation that our NSF REU site was renewed for a second term. The topic this time is "Human-AI Interaction and Evaluation in Web and Information Systems". ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/08/2026...

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2026-08-03: REU Renewal Proposal Awarded by NSF

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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Congratulations to Jian Wu and Sampath Jayarathna for securing NSF funding for the JCDL Doctoral Consortium for the next three years. I'm happy that WSDL @webscidl.bsky.social & the NSF are able to continue to support JCDL @jcdlconf.bsky.social. congrats to all! ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/08/2026...

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2026-08-03: JCDL Receives Sponsorship from the NSF to Support Its Doctoral Consortium Workshop

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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

We've uploaded the video for Tuesday's 2026 WS-DL Research Expo -- be sure to check it out if you missed it. @webscidl.bsky.social ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/06/2026...

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2026-06-25: 2026 WS-DL Research Expo

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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)

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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Lesley Frew @lesleyelisabeth.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Was Snopes making silent updates to its articles before 2021? [Rating: TRUE] Check out the blog post here: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/04/2026... @webscidl.bsky.social

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2026-04-21: Was Snopes.com making silent updates to its articles before 2021? [Rating: TRUE]

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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Lawrence Obiuwevwi of @webscidl.bsky.social posted his trip report for the The Contemplative Sciences Center (CSC) Sensemaking Symposium 2025 at UVA in Oct 2025: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/04/04-1...

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2026-04-13: The Contemplative Sciences Center (CSC) Sensemaking Symposium 2025: Report.

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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

The first part (left-to-right) of a tweet ID encoded the datetime that it was tweeted. @tarannum44.bsky.social of @webscidl.bsky.social has released an expansion of our early tool, TweetedAt, that takes datetimes of varying granularity and returns a tweet prefix. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/03/2026...

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2026-03-18: Reverse TweetedAt: Determining Tweet ID prefixes from Timestamps

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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Hussam Hallak @hussamhallak.bsky.social of @webscidl.bsky.social describes using Google Sheets to do a bulk upload of URLs to the "Save Page Now" service of the Wayback Machine @waybackmachine.bsky.social ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/02/2026...

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2026-02-12: How to archive web pages in bulk using the Internet Archive Google Sheets service

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Travis Reid @treid803.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

For this blog post, I summarized @bitarchivist.net, @wilkinson.graphics, and @ilya.webrecorder.net's paper, “High Fidelity Web Archiving of News Sites and New Media with Browsertrix.” @webscidl.bsky.social ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/02/2026...

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2026-02-13: Paper Summary: "High Fidelity Web Archiving of News Sites and New Media with Browsertrix"

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Lesley Frew @lesleyelisabeth.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

In "Detecting and reconstructing trustworthy edit histories using web archives", I talk about different markers of edit history on webpages and how web archives can be used to verify or refute them. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/02/2026... @webscidl.bsky.social

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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Travis Reid @treid803.bsky.social @webscidl.bsky.social summarizes Brenda Reyes Ayala's @brendareyesayala.bsky.social 2025 paper: "Towards a better QA process: Automatic detection of quality problems in archived websites using visual comparisons" ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/01/2026...

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2026-01-22: Paper Summary: "Towards a better QA process: Automatic detection of quality problems in archived websites using visual comparisons"

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Travis Reid @treid803.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Our JASIST article, "Problems with archiving and replaying current web advertisements", was recently published: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author... @wiley.com Co-authors: Alex Poole, Hyung Wook Choi, Christopher Rauch, @machawk1.bsky.social, @phonedudemln.bsky.social, @weiglemc.bsky.social (1/9)

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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

A follow up to the @tarannum44.bsky.social / @webscidl.bsky.social study on Twitter UI generations. This time, it's about acct pages, not just individual tweets. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/12/2025...

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2025-12-03: Exploring the Different Generations of the UI for Twitter’s Account Pages

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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Trip report for the 2025 ACM Hypertext Conference #HT2025 @acmht.bsky.social @webscidl.bsky.social PhD students Tarannum Zaki, Rochana Obadage, & Dominik Soos and alumni @machawk1.bsky.social & @ibnesayeed.bsky.social attended in September, 2025. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/11/2025...

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2025-11-12: 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT 2025) Trip Report

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Michele Weigle @weiglemc.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Our October ODU-CS PhD Gathering featured a talk from my PhD student, Tarannum Zaki (@tarannum44.bsky.social), based on our ACM Hypertext 2025 paper, "Web Archives for Verifying Attribution in Twitter Screenshots", preprint at arxiv.org/abs/2510.22939 @phonedudemln.bsky.social @webscidl.bsky.social

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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Javed Ferdous of @webscidl.bsky.social has written a paper summary of @acm-sigchi.bsky.social ACM CHI 2025's “‘As an Autistic Person Myself:’ The Bias Paradox Around Autism in LLMs” by Park, Min, Beltran, and Hayes. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...

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2025-10-28: Summary of "As an Autistic Person Myself:" The Bias Paradox Around Autism in LLMs

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT have become ubiquitous in our lives.

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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

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himarshaj.bsky.social @himarshaj.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Excited to share my internship experience with the @archive.org as a Google Summer of Code 2025 contributor! ✍️ blog post: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025... 🙏 @ibnesayeed.bsky.social, @mark.bsky.social, @weiglemc.bsky.social, @phonedudemln.bsky.social, @acnwala.bsky.social, @webscidl.bsky.social.

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2025-10-10: An Internship Experience With the Internet Archive as a Google Summer of Code Contributor

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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

This blog post came up recently in a student meeting while discussing real web sites about fake entities. In 2016, Shawn Jones @shawnmjones.org‬ @webscidl.bsky.social looked at link rot & content drift in real web sites mentioned in fictional TV shows & movies. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2016/10/2016...

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2016-10-24: Fun with Fictional Web Sites and the Internet Archive

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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-...

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

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infoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Who Cares About All Those Old goo.gl Links Anyway? by Michael Nelson (via @webscidl.bsky.social) ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/08/2025... #google #shorturl #URLs

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2025-08-10: Who Cares About All Those Old goo.gl Links Anyway?

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Mat Kelly @machawk1.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Today I gave an invited talk at the Archive-It Partner Meeting in Philly titled, "What You See No One Saw" describing an ongoing investigation for archiving personalized representations on the web. The presentation is based on our IMLS project w/ @webscidl.bsky.social Slides: matkelly.com/ait2025

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Travis Reid @treid803.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

In this blog post, I summarized Goel et al.’s "Jawa: Web Archival in the Era of JavaScript". They identified sources of non-determinism that cause replay problems and created a crawler that removes non-deterministic code. #WebArchiveWednesday @webscidl.bsky.social ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/06/2025...

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2025-06-11: Paper Summary: "Jawa: Web Archival in the Era of JavaScript" (Goel et al. OSDI '22)

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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 · 13/05/2025

✍️Our @webscidl.bsky.social trip report for ACM #CAPWIC2025 is now live! Check out the highlights by Yasasi, Lesley, Kritika, & I: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/05/2025... @weiglemc.bsky.social, @phonedudemln.bsky.social, @openmaze.bsky.social, @nirdslab.bsky.social

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2025-05-12: ACM Capital Region Celebration of Women in Computing (CAPWIC) 2025 Trip Report

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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I appreciate the chance to present "A Vision for Trustworthy Web Archiving" at the DPC Members Forum and Networking Event - Americas meeting at Vanderbilt University. bit.ly/Nelson-DPC2025

Nelson -- A Vision for Trustworthy Web Archiving -- DPC Members Forum and Networking Event - Americas 2025-04-24

A Vision for Trustworthy Web Archiving Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social with: Sawood Alam, Vikas Ashok, Mohamed Aturban, John Berlin, Justin Brunelle, Kritika Garg, Hussam Hallak, Himarsha ...

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dietrich @burrito.space · 09/04/2025

Redirects Unraveled: From Lost Links to Rickrolls poster at #IIPCWAC25 by Kritiga Garg et al yet more findings from the Not Your Parents Web project of @webscidl.bsky.social, @archive.org and @fil.org (thanks @ilya.webrecorder.net for grabbing a photo!)

poster at IIPC 2025 for "Redirects Unraveled: From Lost Links to Rickrolls"

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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

We've released an extended version of our contribution on the @webscidl.bsky.social blog. Cliff was instrumental in helping OAI-PMH and SFX/OpenURL get started, and thus had an outsized impact on our early careers. #CNI25S ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/04/clif...

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Cliff Lynch: The Invisible Influencer in Information Infrastructure

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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Lesley Frew of @webscidl.bsky.social followed up on this study: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/03/2025...

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2025-03-27: Establishing a Baseline by Administration for the Takedown of US Government Webpages using Web Archives

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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

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Travis Reid @treid803.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

One of the goals for the Saving Ads project was to create a dataset of advertisements from the live web. This blog post describes our process for creating this dataset: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/02/2025... #WebArchiveWednesday @webscidl.bsky.social (1/7)

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2025-02-10: Creating a Dataset of Archived Web Ads

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Travis Reid @treid803.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Our new tech report (arxiv.org/abs/2502.01525): "Archiving and Replaying Current Web Advertisements…" describes the archiving and replay problems we encountered while creating a dataset of 279 archived ads. #WebArchiveWednesday @webscidl.bsky.social @machawk1 @phonedudemln @weiglemc (1/10)

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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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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

@webscidl.bsky.social #CIKM2024 Trip Report: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2024 ws-dl.blogspot.com/2024/11/2024...

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2024-11-15: The 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2024 Trip Report

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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

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

A professor of web archiving, Michael Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social, wrote a short Twitter thread about how Google Cache worked and its benefits. Twitter link: twitter.com/phonedude_ml...

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Google is removing another piece of useful infrastructure :-(

There were many cases where pages (often social media) were indexed, then deleted from the live web, but were not yet archived. You could discover them via a SE, then archive the cached version.

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