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We present VizGenie, a self-improving, agentic framework that advances scientific visualization through large language model (LLM) by orchestrating of a...
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a popular technique for enhancing the reliability and utility of Large Language Models (LLMs) by groundi...
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being leveraged for generating andtranslating scientific computer codes by both domain-experts and non-dom...
Modern software development education and tool chains favor current programming languages. Many important programs still exist in older languages, such ...
The advent of large language models (LLMs) has significantly advanced the field of code translation, enabling automated translation between programming ...
Recent advances in computer vision (CV) and natural language processing have been driven by exploiting big data on practical applications. However, thes...
Web archives are sources of big data. When presenting human visitors with archived web pages, or mementos, web archives often apply user interface augme...
People often create themed collections to make sense of an ever-increasing number of archived web pages. Some of these collections contain hundreds of t...
Understanding the spread of images across the web helps us understand the reuse of scientific visualizations and their relationship with the public. The...
Much computer vision research has focused on natural images, but technical documents typically consist of abstract images, such as charts, drawings, dia...
Much computer vision research has focused on natural images, but technical documents typically consist of abstract images, such as charts, drawings, dia...
As web archives' holdings grow, archivists subdivide them into collections so they are easier to understand and manage. In this work, we review the coll...
Referencing resources on the web has become an integral part of our digital scholarship. However, the long-term availability and accessibility of these ...
The Dark and Stormy Archives (DSA) Project applies social media storytelling to a subset of a collection to facilitate collection understanding at a gla...
In a perfect world, all articles consistently contain sufficient metadata to describe the resource. We know this is not the reality, so we are motivated...
Dr. Diane Oyen strongly suggested submitting an application to the Information Science & Technology Institute (ISTI) Postdoctoral Fellow program. Each y...
A Twitter card often appears in a tweet when a user shares a URL. We found that if the page being shared on Twitter contains an HTML META redirect, Twit...
SHARI is back. Each day, the Dark and Stormy Archives Project will apply the SHARI process to gather the news articles for the previous day's top storie...
Last week, I was discussing my publications with a colleague, and I mentioned that I had a paper published at ACM CIKM 2019. They were curious about the...
In the Dark and Stormy Archives (DSA) project, we focus on storytelling techniques to summarize collections of archived web pages. Since collections can...
Humans can choose individual documents from a web archive collection, but doing so is difficult if they are unfamiliar with the collection. The issue is...
In a perfect world, all articles consistently contain sufficient metadata to describe the resource. We know this is not the reality, so we are motivated...
In a perfect world, all articles consistently contain sufficient metadata to describe the resource. We know this is not the reality, so we are motivated...
After graduating, I officially accepted a position in Los Alamos National Laboratory's Information Sciences Division (CCS-3) working for Diane Oyen. On ...
In a perfect world, all articles consistently contain sufficient metadata to describe the resource. We know this is not the reality, so we are motivated...
Collections are the tools that people use to make sense of an ever-increasing number of archived web pages. As collections themselves grow, we need tool...
Used by a variety of researchers, web archive collections have become invaluable sources of evidence. If a researcher is presented with a web archive co...
To allow previewing a web page, social media platforms have developed social cards: visualizations consisting of vital information about the underlying ...
To allow previewing a web page, social media platforms have developed social cards: visualizations consisting of vital information about the underlying ...
We developed MementoEmbed, an archive-aware service that can generate different types of visualizations for a given Memento. MementoEmbed can generate c...
Since researchers and archivists are most often interested in the on-topic content of these collections, identifying the off-topic Mementos is a crucial...
Links to web resources frequently break, and linked content can change at unpredictable rates. These dynamics of the Web are detrimental when references...
Individual web archive collections can contain thousands of documents. If a researcher wants to use one of these collections, which one best meets their...
On Friday, Twitter suspended Donald Trump's account due to concerns that his current and future tweets might continue to foment violence in the United S...
Tools like Archive-It and Webrecorder exist that allow users to create web archive collections easily. These collections contain thousands of seeds, and...
For traditional library collections, archivists can select a representative sample from a collection and display it in a featured physical or digital li...
Tools such as Google News and Flipboard exist to convey daily news, but what about the past? In this paper, we describe how to combine several existing ...
For traditional library collections, archivists can select a representative sample from a collection and display it in a featured physical or digital li...
Tools such as Google News and Flipboard exist to convey daily news, but what about the past? In this paper, we describe how to combine several existing ...
On July 25, more than 1,300 registrants around the world opened their laptops and started attending SIGIR 2020. Via Zoom and the streaming capabilities ...
Links on the web break all the time. We frequently experience the infamous “404 – Page not found” message, also known as “a broken link” or “link rot.” ...
In Part 1, we introduced Hypercane, a tool for automatically sampling mementos from web archive collections. Web archive collections consist of thousand...
In Part 1 of this series of blog posts, I introduced Hypercane, a tool for automatically sampling mementos from web archive collections. If a human wish...
Yasmin AlNoamany experimented with summarizing a web collection by choosing a small number of exemplars and then visualizing them with social media stor...
My research focuses on summarizing existing web archive collections through social media storytelling. For this effort, we developed Raintale to tell th...
Students, professors, industry experts, and others came to Beijing to attend the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Manageme...
Used by a variety of researchers, web archive collections have become invaluable sources of evidence. If a researcher is presented with a web archive co...
Used by a variety of researchers, web archive collections have become invaluable sources of evidence. If a researcher is presented with a web archive co...
On October 28, 2019, web archiving experts met with librarians and archivists at the George Washington University in Washington, DC. As part of the Cont...
This CEDWARC presentation highlights AlNoamany's Algorithm and other research done to apply social media storytelling techniques to web archives, includ...
One of the most challenging problems to solve while conducting user studies is recruiting participants. Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MT) solves this proble...
With web archives, journalists find evidence and information to back up their stories, historians store information for later users, and social scientist...
Raintale is the latest entry in the Dark and Stormy Archives project. Our goal is to provide research studies and tools for combining web archives and s...
Since 2013, I have been a principal contributor to the Memento MediaWiki Extension. We recently released version 2.2.0 to support MediaWiki versions of ...
On Tuesday, we released our latest pre-print "Social Cards Probably Provide Better Understanding of Web Archive Collections". My work builds o...
Google+ will be shut down on April 2, 2019. In this blog post I cover how much of Google+ is archived and how to archive its pages.
Ever since the Internet Archive started large-scale web archiving in 1996, historians, sociologists, and journalists have found web archives to be an im...
Web archives, a key area of digital preservation, meet the needs of journalists, social scientists, historians, and government orga- nizations. The use ...
Web archive collections are created with a particular purpose in mind. A curator selects seeds, or original resources, which are then captured by an arc...
I presented my conference paper <em>The Many Shapes of Archive-It</em> where I talk about the structural features that can be used to understand web arc...
I presented my conference paper <em>The Off-Topic Memento Toolkit</em> where I talk about a software package that can detect off-topic mementos in a web...
With the death of Storify, I've been examining alternatives for summarizing web archive collections. Key to these summaries are surrogates. I have disco...
There are two US government websites in danger, the National Guideline Clearinghouse (https://www.guideline.gov) and the National Quality Measures Clear...
At iPres 2018, I will be presenting "The Many Shapes of Archive-It", a paper that focuses on some structural features inherent in Archive-It collections...
Inspired by AlNoamany's work from "Detecting off-topic pages within TimeMaps in Web archives" I am pleased to announce an alpha release of the Off-Topic...
On June 3, 2018, PhD students arrived in Fort Worth, Texas to attend the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Doctoral Consortium. This is a pre-confer...
Here I presented work done on my dissertation so far. The doctoral consortium allows me to acquire feedback from the community before I submit my disser...
Web resources can be represented in a variety of ways. In this blog post I go over work that has been done to create surrogates, or representations of w...
A variety of fan-based wikis about episodic fiction (e.g., television shows, novels, movies) exist on the World Wide Web. These wikis provide a wealth o...
We engaged in discussions about a very important topic: the preservation of online news content. Brewster Kahle is well known in digital preservation an...
The Storify platform will be discontinued in May 2018. Here I outline some options for those trying to preserve their work before it disappears.
The crowds descended upon Arlington, Virginia for the 80th annual meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology. I attended this mee...
This is a presentation of social media storytelling tools that were covered in a blog post written for the Web Science and Digital Libraries research gr...
This post is a re-examination of the landscape since AlNoamany's dissertation to see if there are tools other than Storify that the Dark and Stormy Arch...
I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to present Yasmin AlNoamany's work at Web Science 2017. Dr. Nelson offers an excellent class on Web Scien...
A presentation of the work I had done with the Research Library Prototyping Team at Los Alamos National Laboratory given to the local chapter of the Spe...
Most web archives augment Mementos when presenting them to the user, often for usability or legal purposes. Research efforts and software projects need ...
Though scholars write articles and papers, they also post a lot of content on the web. Datasets, blog posts (like this one), presentations, and more are...
Given a scholar's identity on a portal, how can we crawl the scholarly portal to ensure that we capture all of their content? In this post, I evaluate a...
In this post, I examine different trusted timestamping methods. I start with some of the more traditional methods before discussing OriginStamp, a solut...
Increasingly, scholarly articles contain URI references to “web at large” resources including project web sites, scholarly wikis, ontologies, online deb...
As we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Internet Archive, I realize that using Memento and the Wayback Machine has become second nature when solving...
We are pleased to report that the W3C has embraced Memento for versioning its specifications and its wiki. Completing this effort required collaboration...
In a previous post, we discussed a way to use the existing Memento protocol combined with link headers to access unaltered (raw) archived web content. I...
On June 16, 2016, the Library of Congress hosted a one day Symposium entitled Saving the Web: The Ethics and Challenges of Preserving What's on the Inte...
While analyzing mementos in a recent experiment, we discovered problems processing archived content. Many web archives augment the mementos they serve w...
I was fortunate to present a poster at the 25th International World Wide Web Conference, held from April 11, 2016 - April 15, 2016. Though my primary mi...
We quantify the extent to which references to papers in scholarly literature use persistent HTTP URIs that leverage the Digital Object Identifier infras...
Recently, we conducted an experiment using mementos for almost 700,000 web pages from more than 20 web archives. These web pages spanned much of the lif...
Text extraction from web pages has many applications, including web crawling optimization and document clustering. Though much has been written about th...
The LANL Library Prototyping Team recently received correspondence from a member of the Wikipedia team requesting Python code that could find the best U...
After successfully defending my Master's Thesis, I accepted a position as a Graduate Research Assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Library...
A variety of fan-based wikis about episodic fiction (e.g., television shows, novels, movies) exist on the World Wide Web. These wikis provide a wealth o...
A variety of fan-based wikis about episodic fiction (e.g., television shows, novels, movies) exist on the World Wide Web. These wikis provide a wealth o...
In 2010, I decided to again study at the Old Dominion University Computer Science Department for better employment opportunities. After taking some clas...
A variety of fan-based wikis about episodic fiction (e.g., television shows, novels, movies) exist on the World Wide Web. In this presentation, I detail...
Over the past year, I've been working on the Memento MediaWiki Extension. In addition to trying to produce a decent product, we've also been trying to b...
We have implemented the Memento MediaWiki Extension Version 2.0, which brings the Memento Protocol to MediaWiki, used by Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Fou...
Amid the smell of coffee and bagels, the crowd quieted down to listen to the opening by Jennifer Baek, who, in addition to getting us energized, also pa...
The Internet Archive attempts to reconstruct web pages via snapshots (Mementos) that are taken of pages at various points in time. Many pages change mor...
The rise in fan-based wikis allows fans to discuss TV shows and books in ways never before seen. Unfortunately, as fans, we have the problem of spoilers...
We've been working on the development, testing, and improvement of the Memento MediaWiki Extension. One of our principle concerns is performance.
In 2010, I decided to again study at the Old Dominion University Computer Science Department for better employment opportunities. After taking some clas...
In 2010, I decided to again study at the Old Dominion University Computer Science Department for better employment opportunities. After taking some clas...
The Memento Chrome Extension can help avoid spoilers in fan wikis. This video briefly demonstrates how it does so.
This video shows how to use the Memento Mediawiki Extension to avoid spoilers on fan-based wikis. To achieve this, the Memento Mediawiki Extension must ...
This is a brief presentation on Continuous Integration for the Defense Acquisition University, providing a simple overview of the how and why of Continu...
I was invited to presented Test Driven Development to the ODU chapter of the ACM. Here I provide an introduction to the methodology, why one should use ...
