Combining Social Media Storytelling With Web ArchivesShawn Jones
(This was a guest presentation for CS6604 - Digital Libraries - Fall 2019 - taught by Edward A. Fox)
Web archive collections consist of 1000s of documents. Manually making sense of collections at this scale is difficult. We propose using social media storytelling to aid in summarizing web archive collections. We discuss AlNoamany's Algorithm for generating a representative sample from these collections and highlight how to use the Dark and Stormy Archives toolkit.
Improving Collection Understanding in Web ArchivesShawn Jones
We propose using visualization of representative mementos to aide in collection understanding of web archive collections, as inspired by AlNomanay's work.
I presented this at iPres 2018. It consists of an analysis of some structural features found in Archive-It collections. We also categorize Archive-It collections into 4 different semantic categories and then uses the structural features to predict these categories with a Random Forest Classifier.
Where Can We Post Stories Summarizing Web Archive CollectionsShawn Jones
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 group: http://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2017/08/2017-08-11-where-can-we-post-stories.html
Improving Understanding of Web Archive Collections Through Storytelling - PhD...Shawn Jones
With web archives, journalists find evidence and information to back up their stories, historians store information for later users, and social scientists can study the actions of humans during specific time periods. These different groups gain value not only from creating their own collections but from using the collections of others. Web archive collections store the content that would otherwise be lost. As users, we currently have no efficient way of understanding what is in each collection without manually reviewing all of its items. Web archives intentionally consist of different versions of the same document. With these multiple versions, we can watch the evolution of a single resource over time, following the changes to an organization or how the public learns the details of an unfolding news story. As aggregations of archived web pages, or mementos, these collections become resources unto themselves. While past work has used mementos for studying how web resources change over time or evaluated the changes to various industries, there is still theoretical work to be done in improving the usability of web archive collections. Our goal is to help collection creators and the public at large to make better use of these collections through improvements to collection understanding. We build upon the work of AlNoamany by using visualizations from social media storytelling. Our goal is to produce a story for each web archive collection. Each story consists of representative mementos selected from the web archive collection that are then individually visualized as surrogates (e.g., screenshots, cards containing a summary of the page). This solution has the benefit of using visualization paradigms familiar to users. In this work, we provide background on the problem, analyze previous work in this area, and highlight our preliminary work before providing a plan for future research.
I presented this paper at iPres 2018. Here, we introduce the Off-Topic Memento Toolkit, used to detect versions of web pages that have drifted off topic from the general topic of a collection.
Combining Social Media Storytelling With Web ArchivesShawn Jones
(This was a guest presentation for CS6604 - Digital Libraries - Fall 2019 - taught by Edward A. Fox)
Web archive collections consist of 1000s of documents. Manually making sense of collections at this scale is difficult. We propose using social media storytelling to aid in summarizing web archive collections. We discuss AlNoamany's Algorithm for generating a representative sample from these collections and highlight how to use the Dark and Stormy Archives toolkit.
Improving Collection Understanding in Web ArchivesShawn Jones
We propose using visualization of representative mementos to aide in collection understanding of web archive collections, as inspired by AlNomanay's work.
I presented this at iPres 2018. It consists of an analysis of some structural features found in Archive-It collections. We also categorize Archive-It collections into 4 different semantic categories and then uses the structural features to predict these categories with a Random Forest Classifier.
Where Can We Post Stories Summarizing Web Archive CollectionsShawn Jones
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 group: http://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2017/08/2017-08-11-where-can-we-post-stories.html
Improving Understanding of Web Archive Collections Through Storytelling - PhD...Shawn Jones
With web archives, journalists find evidence and information to back up their stories, historians store information for later users, and social scientists can study the actions of humans during specific time periods. These different groups gain value not only from creating their own collections but from using the collections of others. Web archive collections store the content that would otherwise be lost. As users, we currently have no efficient way of understanding what is in each collection without manually reviewing all of its items. Web archives intentionally consist of different versions of the same document. With these multiple versions, we can watch the evolution of a single resource over time, following the changes to an organization or how the public learns the details of an unfolding news story. As aggregations of archived web pages, or mementos, these collections become resources unto themselves. While past work has used mementos for studying how web resources change over time or evaluated the changes to various industries, there is still theoretical work to be done in improving the usability of web archive collections. Our goal is to help collection creators and the public at large to make better use of these collections through improvements to collection understanding. We build upon the work of AlNoamany by using visualizations from social media storytelling. Our goal is to produce a story for each web archive collection. Each story consists of representative mementos selected from the web archive collection that are then individually visualized as surrogates (e.g., screenshots, cards containing a summary of the page). This solution has the benefit of using visualization paradigms familiar to users. In this work, we provide background on the problem, analyze previous work in this area, and highlight our preliminary work before providing a plan for future research.
I presented this paper at iPres 2018. Here, we introduce the Off-Topic Memento Toolkit, used to detect versions of web pages that have drifted off topic from the general topic of a collection.
Social Cards Probably Provide For Better Understanding Of Web Archive Collect...Shawn Jones
Presented at ACM CIKM 2019. Used by a variety of researchers, web archive collections have become invaluable sources of evidence. If a researcher is presented with a web archive collection that they did not create, how do they know what is inside so that they can use it for their own research? Search engine results and social media links are represented as surrogates, small easily digestible summaries of the underlying page. Search engines and social media have a different focus, and hence produce different surrogates than web archives. Search engine surrogates help a user answer the question "Will this link meet my information need?" Social media surrogates help a user decide "Should I click on this?" Our use case is subtly different. We hypothesize that groups of surrogates together are useful for summarizing a collection. We want to help users answer the question of "What does the underlying collection contain?" But which surrogate should we use? With Mechanical Turk participants, we evaluate six different surrogate types against each other. We find that the type of surrogate does not influence the time to complete the task we presented the participants. Of particular interest are social cards, surrogates typically found on social media, and browser thumbnails, screen captures of web pages rendered in a browser. At p=0.0569, and p=0.0770, respectively, we find that social cards and social cards paired side-by-side with browser thumbnails probably provide better collection understanding than the surrogates currently used by the popular Archive-It web archiving platform. We measure user interactions with each surrogate and find that users interact with social cards less than other types. The results of this study have implications for our web archive summarization work, live web curation platforms, social media, and more.
Yasmin AlNoamany
Michele C. Weigle
Michael L. Nelson
Old Dominion University
Web Science and Digital Libraries Group
ws-dl.cs.odu.edu
@WebSciDL
This work is supported in part by IMLS LG-71-15-0077
Old Dominion University ECE Department Colloquium
2015-11-13
Summarizing archival collections using storytelling techniquesMichael Nelson
Summarizing archival collections using storytelling techniques
Yasmin AlNoamany
Michele C. Weigle
Michael L. Nelson
Old Dominion University
Web Science & Digital Libraries Research Group
www.cs.odu.edu/~mln/
@phonedude_mln
Research Funded by IMLS LG-71-15-0077-15
Dodging the Memory Hole
Los Angeles, CA, 2016-10-14
Storytelling for Summarizing Collections in Web ArchivesMichael Nelson
Yasmin AlNoamany
Michele C. Weigle
Michael L. Nelson
Old Dominion University
Web Science and Digital Libraries Group
@WebSciDL
This work is supported in part by IMLS LG-71-15-0077
CNI Spring 2016
2016-04-05
The Power of Sharing Linked Data - ELAG 2014 WorkshopRichard Wallis
Presentation to set the scene and stimulate discussion in the Workshop "The Power of Sharing Linked Data" at ELAG 2014 - Bath University, UK June 10/11 2014
WS-DL’s Work towards Enabling Personal Use of Web ArchivesMichele Weigle
Talk given at Library of Congress by Michele C. Weigle (@weiglemc)
December 18, 2018
Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) Research Group (@WebSciDL)
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA
Collection directions - towards collective collectionslisld
How the emergence of new research and learning workflows in digital environments is affecting library collecting and collections. Several trends are reviewed. In the light of diversifying competing requirements, the need to manage down print and develop shared print responses is discussed.
Presentation to OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council meeting. 13 Oct. 2014.
Improving Collection Understanding For Web Archives With Storytelling: Shinin...Shawn Jones
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 tools to make sense of them. Tools that work on the general web, like search engines, are not a good fit for these collections because search engines do not currently represent multiple document versions well. Web archive collections themselves are vast, some containing hundreds of thousands of documents. There are also thousands of collections, many of which cover the same topic. Few collections include standardized metadata. Too many documents from too many collections with not enough metadata makes collection understanding an expensive proposition.
This dissertation establishes a five-process model to assist with web archive collection understanding. This model aims to automatically produce a social media story -- a visualization paradigm with which most web users are already familiar. Each social media story contains surrogates which are summaries of individual documents. These surrogates, when collected together, summarize the overall topic of the story. After applying our storytelling model, they summarize the topic of a web archive collection.
We develop and test a framework to select the best exemplars that represent a collection. We establish that algorithms produced from these primitives select exemplars that are otherwise undiscoverable using conventional search engine methods. We generate story metadata to improve the information scent of a story so users can understand it better. After an analysis showing that existing platforms perform poorly for web archives and a user study establishing the best surrogate type, we generate document metadata for the exemplars with machine learning. We then visualize the story and document metadata together and distribute it to satisfy the information needs of multiple personas who benefit from our model.
Our tools serve as a reference implementation of our Dark and Stormy Archives storytelling model. Hypercane selects exemplars and generates story metadata. MementoEmbed generates document metadata. Raintale visualizes and distributes the story based on the story metadata and the document metadata of these exemplars. By providing understanding at a glance, our stories save users the time and effort of reading thousands of documents and, most importantly, help them understand web archive collections.
This presentation was given at Bobcatsss2013 in Ankara.
Once the library assembled a collection and people came to the library to use it. Now, people build communication, workflows and behaviors around a variety of network resources. The library needs to think about how it is visible and relevant in those workflows and behaviors.
Geo Analysis Visualization and Performance with JReport 13Mia Yuan Cao
Join us to get a first look at JReport 13 with advanced Geo Analysis, visualization and performance features. Learn about new geographical tools for taking data visualization, analysis and presentation to new levels in your dashboards and reports. See the massive performance gains for visualizing very large data sets. Experience first hand how to seamlessly integrate these new features into your application for a complete, advanced BI solution.
Social Cards Probably Provide For Better Understanding Of Web Archive Collect...Shawn Jones
Presented at ACM CIKM 2019. Used by a variety of researchers, web archive collections have become invaluable sources of evidence. If a researcher is presented with a web archive collection that they did not create, how do they know what is inside so that they can use it for their own research? Search engine results and social media links are represented as surrogates, small easily digestible summaries of the underlying page. Search engines and social media have a different focus, and hence produce different surrogates than web archives. Search engine surrogates help a user answer the question "Will this link meet my information need?" Social media surrogates help a user decide "Should I click on this?" Our use case is subtly different. We hypothesize that groups of surrogates together are useful for summarizing a collection. We want to help users answer the question of "What does the underlying collection contain?" But which surrogate should we use? With Mechanical Turk participants, we evaluate six different surrogate types against each other. We find that the type of surrogate does not influence the time to complete the task we presented the participants. Of particular interest are social cards, surrogates typically found on social media, and browser thumbnails, screen captures of web pages rendered in a browser. At p=0.0569, and p=0.0770, respectively, we find that social cards and social cards paired side-by-side with browser thumbnails probably provide better collection understanding than the surrogates currently used by the popular Archive-It web archiving platform. We measure user interactions with each surrogate and find that users interact with social cards less than other types. The results of this study have implications for our web archive summarization work, live web curation platforms, social media, and more.
Yasmin AlNoamany
Michele C. Weigle
Michael L. Nelson
Old Dominion University
Web Science and Digital Libraries Group
ws-dl.cs.odu.edu
@WebSciDL
This work is supported in part by IMLS LG-71-15-0077
Old Dominion University ECE Department Colloquium
2015-11-13
Summarizing archival collections using storytelling techniquesMichael Nelson
Summarizing archival collections using storytelling techniques
Yasmin AlNoamany
Michele C. Weigle
Michael L. Nelson
Old Dominion University
Web Science & Digital Libraries Research Group
www.cs.odu.edu/~mln/
@phonedude_mln
Research Funded by IMLS LG-71-15-0077-15
Dodging the Memory Hole
Los Angeles, CA, 2016-10-14
Storytelling for Summarizing Collections in Web ArchivesMichael Nelson
Yasmin AlNoamany
Michele C. Weigle
Michael L. Nelson
Old Dominion University
Web Science and Digital Libraries Group
@WebSciDL
This work is supported in part by IMLS LG-71-15-0077
CNI Spring 2016
2016-04-05
The Power of Sharing Linked Data - ELAG 2014 WorkshopRichard Wallis
Presentation to set the scene and stimulate discussion in the Workshop "The Power of Sharing Linked Data" at ELAG 2014 - Bath University, UK June 10/11 2014
WS-DL’s Work towards Enabling Personal Use of Web ArchivesMichele Weigle
Talk given at Library of Congress by Michele C. Weigle (@weiglemc)
December 18, 2018
Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) Research Group (@WebSciDL)
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA
Collection directions - towards collective collectionslisld
How the emergence of new research and learning workflows in digital environments is affecting library collecting and collections. Several trends are reviewed. In the light of diversifying competing requirements, the need to manage down print and develop shared print responses is discussed.
Presentation to OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council meeting. 13 Oct. 2014.
Improving Collection Understanding For Web Archives With Storytelling: Shinin...Shawn Jones
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 tools to make sense of them. Tools that work on the general web, like search engines, are not a good fit for these collections because search engines do not currently represent multiple document versions well. Web archive collections themselves are vast, some containing hundreds of thousands of documents. There are also thousands of collections, many of which cover the same topic. Few collections include standardized metadata. Too many documents from too many collections with not enough metadata makes collection understanding an expensive proposition.
This dissertation establishes a five-process model to assist with web archive collection understanding. This model aims to automatically produce a social media story -- a visualization paradigm with which most web users are already familiar. Each social media story contains surrogates which are summaries of individual documents. These surrogates, when collected together, summarize the overall topic of the story. After applying our storytelling model, they summarize the topic of a web archive collection.
We develop and test a framework to select the best exemplars that represent a collection. We establish that algorithms produced from these primitives select exemplars that are otherwise undiscoverable using conventional search engine methods. We generate story metadata to improve the information scent of a story so users can understand it better. After an analysis showing that existing platforms perform poorly for web archives and a user study establishing the best surrogate type, we generate document metadata for the exemplars with machine learning. We then visualize the story and document metadata together and distribute it to satisfy the information needs of multiple personas who benefit from our model.
Our tools serve as a reference implementation of our Dark and Stormy Archives storytelling model. Hypercane selects exemplars and generates story metadata. MementoEmbed generates document metadata. Raintale visualizes and distributes the story based on the story metadata and the document metadata of these exemplars. By providing understanding at a glance, our stories save users the time and effort of reading thousands of documents and, most importantly, help them understand web archive collections.
This presentation was given at Bobcatsss2013 in Ankara.
Once the library assembled a collection and people came to the library to use it. Now, people build communication, workflows and behaviors around a variety of network resources. The library needs to think about how it is visible and relevant in those workflows and behaviors.
Geo Analysis Visualization and Performance with JReport 13Mia Yuan Cao
Join us to get a first look at JReport 13 with advanced Geo Analysis, visualization and performance features. Learn about new geographical tools for taking data visualization, analysis and presentation to new levels in your dashboards and reports. See the massive performance gains for visualizing very large data sets. Experience first hand how to seamlessly integrate these new features into your application for a complete, advanced BI solution.
My talk in the technical meeting "Global Burden of Diseases and Scientific Computation in Health". 25-26 September 2015. FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Data visualizations make huge amounts of data more accessible and understandable. Data visualization, or "data viz," is becoming largely important as the amount of data generated is increasing and big data tools are helping to create meaning behind all of that data.
This SlideShare presentation takes you through more details around data visualization and includes examples of some great data visualization pieces.
Data Visualization 101: How to Design Charts and GraphsVisage
Learn to design effective charts and graphs.
Your data is only as good as your ability to understand and communicate it. The right visualization is essential to incite a desired action, whether from customers or colleagues. But most marketers aren’t mathematicians or adept at data visualization. Fortunately, you don’t need a PhD in statistics to crack the data visualization code.
Designing for Information Objects in LAM (Libraries, Archives, Museums)Design for Context
Presented by Duane Degler & Neal B. Johnson at EdUI 2013, Richmond, VA, USA. 5-Nov-2013.
Museums, libraries and archives hold physical objects that people interact with every day. Their mission includes managing these objects in trust for use by future generations. Digital Humanities adds an important dimension of responsibility. Just as there is a physical object, there is an “Information Object” that people use, and authoritative institutions curate that information for now and the future. This talk is about designing the Information Object, and the role of shareable, structured information.
One unique aspect of the Information Object is that it is not a single thing. It is a jigsaw puzzle which, when completed, represents physical objects. The institution becomes a gateway to an ecosystem of scholarly insights, history, perspectives, and related objects that complete the picture. Curating the information may be perceived as a burden (which we need to make easier!), but it is also a significant opportunity to reinforce the value and authority of institutions that enhance the information ecosystem.
What is the designer’s role? Project teams need a vision to see clearly how it is possible to weave rich, structured data into current sites and applications. Designers bridge the worlds of technologists and curators/archivists/educators. But to do so effectively, designers need to understand what is possible and make it an active part of their design thinking.
We believe passionately that the Information Object is important. Our projects increasingly have a strong emphasis on linked data and semantic web structured metadata. In the now, we are able to improve the search and browse experience, and also serve different types of web users more effectively - from casual viewers to scholars/students to preservationists. For the future, we help establish foundations for information relationships that help the ecosystem grow and preserves the overall Information Object.
Rebecca Grant DAH Research Presentationdri_ireland
Presentation given by Rebecca Grant of the Digital Repository of Ireland at the Research in the Digital Age symposium at the Trinity Long Room Hub, 14 July, 2015. The presentation gives an overview of some of the key concepts and drivers in research data management for the arts and humanities, and introduces the Digital Repository of Ireland as potential place of deposit for such data.
Presented to "Managing the Material: Tackling Visual Arts as Research Data" workshop, organised by Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) in conjunction with the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), through the JISC-funded KAPTUR project. London, 14 September 2012
Introduction: Projects, Partnerships and Collaborations: Service Models for ...Mike Furlough
Introductory slides and remarks for the panel "Projects, Partnerships and Collaborations: Service Models for Digital Scholarship" held at the 2012 Digital Library Federation Forum.
Presented by Samara Carter and Monique Clark at the 2013 Power Up Your Pedagogy Conference held at the Annandale campus of Northern Virginia Community College.
How can UK academic libraries respond to the current issues in scholarly publ...Stuart Dempster
Trends in publishing and collections development, and some opportunities for UK academic libraries to transform services to meet institutional and user requirements in a fast changing environment.
Evaluating Digital Scholarship, Alison ByerlyNITLE
While a number of professional organizations have produced valuable guidelines for evaluation of digital work, many colleges and universities have yet to establish clear protocols and practices for applying them. Alison Byerly, College Professor and former Provost and Executive Vice President at Middlebury College, who has co-led workshops on evaluating digital scholarship at the MLA convention, will review major issues to be considered in the evaluation of digital work, such as: presentation of medium-specific materials, documentation of multiple roles in collaborative work, changing forms of peer review, and identification of appropriate reviewers. She will then talk briefly about how these issues can best be approached from the perspective of the candidate who wishes to present his or her work effectively to review committees, as well as from the perspective of colleagues who wish to provide a well-informed evaluation of such work.
International Perspectives: Visualization in Science and EducationLiz Dorland
Overview of the international and interdisciplinary Gordon Research Conference on Visualization in Science and Education and info on key cognitive science and learning sciences researchers. History of the conference, NSF workshop, and research on learning with visualizations.
Information Literacy and E-Resources: Moving Beyond the ChalkboardLibraries Thriving
Ask any twenty-first century librarian and they will tell you that the traditional chalkboard is not the instructional tool of choice anymore. This panel discussion will address the place of free and subscription e-resources in information literacy instruction and will feature librarians from South University and representatives from Credo Reference, the database that was voted Library Journal’s “Best Overall” in 2012. This will be a collaboration-focused session so bring your ideas to share!
Contributing to the global commons: Repositories and WikimediaNick Sheppard
There is huge potential for universities and their libraries to leverage Wikimedia in order to expose research outputs and collections. Wikimedia comprises sixteen projects in total, including Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. At the University of Leeds, the Research Data Management Service have successfully run a project that focuses on linking research data with the Wikimedia suite of tools via a series of ‘editathons’, in order to increase the visibility of research data and enable reuse on Wikipedia and elsewhere. The project - "Manage it locally to share it globally: RDM and Wikimedia Commons" - was the winning submission to a competition launched in May 2018 and sponsored by SPARC Europe, Jisc and the University of Cambridge, called the "Data Management Engagement Award", which aimed to address cultural challenges involved in promoting effective research data practices.
The project has served as a springboard to further explore Wikimedia strategically, both at the University of Leeds and across the White Rose Consortium. For example we are collaborating on a new project looking at Wikipedia citations of research from York, Sheffield and Leeds, and the proportion of these that are open access. The long term goal might be to establish a "Wikimedian in Residence" across the consortium. In this talk, we will present the project's outputs - including a toolkit that will enable other institutions to apply the same methodology. In addition we will explore the potential of Wikidata to link up repositories and other data silos in a manner that enables reuse and increases impact.
PATHS at the Language Technology Group, Computer Science and Software Enginee...pathsproject
Presentation given by Mark Stevenson, University of Sheffield, at the Language Technology Group, Computer Science and Software Engineering Department, Melbourne University.
Talk given at Society of Southwest Archivists 2013 annual meeting, discussing web archiving in the context of university archives. Explores why web archiving is important for university archives, some methods for web archiving, and technological and ethical challenges.
Making the Black Hole Gray: Implementing the Web Archiving of Specialist Art ...The Frick Collection
Report on the New York Art Resources Consortium's investigation into web archiving born-digital art research materials.
Presented at the Archive-It Partner Meeting, Salt Lake CIty, Utah, November 12, 2013
Comparing the Archival Rate of Arabic, English, Danish, and Korean Language W...Michele Weigle
Based on work published in ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 36(1), July 2017 by Lulwah Alkwai, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle
Presented at ACM SIGIR 2019 on July 24, 2019 by Michele C. Weigle
Keynote talk presented at Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) 2018
June 6, 2018 - Fort Worth, TX
Michele C. Weigle (@weiglemc)
Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) Research Group (@WebSciDL)
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA
My academic story as told through the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
Slides from my keynote presentation at the Southeast Women in Computing Conference, November 16, 2013
Full talk slides at http://www.slideshare.net/mweigle/telling-stories-with-web-archives
A Retasking Framework For Wireless Sensor NetworksMichele Weigle
Presented by Yang He
Military Communications Conference (MILCOM)
October 6-8, 2014
Baltimore, MD
Michael Ruffing, Yang He, Jason Hallstrom, Mat Kelly, Stephan Olariu and Michele C. Weigle, "A Retasking Framework For Wireless Sensor Networks," In Proceedings of the Military Communications Conference (MILCOM). Baltimore, MD, October 2014.
Strategies for Sensor Data Aggregation in Support of Emergency ResponseMichele Weigle
Presented by Xianping Wang
Military Communications Conference (MILCOM)
October 6-8, 2014
Baltimore, MD
Xianping Wang, Aaron Walden, Michele C. Weigle and Stephan Olariu, "Strategies for Sensor Data Aggregation in Support of Emergency Response," In Proceedings of the Military Communications Conference (MILCOM). Baltimore, MD, October 2014.
Presented by Michele C. Weigle, June 4, 2015
Columbia University Web Archiving Collaboration: New Tools and Models
Work by Yasmin AlNoamany, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson
What's Grad School All About?
Capital Region Celebration of Women in Computing (CAPWIC), Harrisonburg, VA
February 27, 2015
Presented by Michele Weigle
Archive What I See Now - 2014 NEH ODH OverviewMichele Weigle
"Archive What I See Now": Bringing Institutional Web Archiving Tools to the Individual Researcher
Slides from 2014 NEH ODH Project Directors' Meeting
September 15, 2014
Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson, Liza Potts
"Archive What I See Now" - NEH ODH overviewMichele Weigle
"Archive What I See Now": Bringing Institutional Web Archiving Tools to the Individual Researcher
Slides from shutdown-cancelled NEH ODH Project Directors' Meeting (originally scheduled for Oct 4, 2013)
Michele C. Weigle and Michael L. Nelson
TDMA Slot Reservation in Cluster-Based VANETsMichele Weigle
Mohammad Almalag's PhD Defense Slides
Department of Computer Science
Old Dominion University
April 3, 2013
Note: You may need to download the file to see all of the animations.
A Framework for Dynamic Traffic Monitoring Using Vehicular Ad-Hoc NetworksMichele Weigle
Hadi Arbabi's PhD Defense Slides
Department of Computer Science
Old Dominion University
April 21, 2011
Note: You may need to download the file to see all of the animations.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
How world-class product teams are winning in the AI era by CEO and Founder, P...
Information Visualization - Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It
1. Information
Visualization
(Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It)
Dr. Michele C. Weigle
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA
Faculty Lightning Talk
October 4, 2012
2. What is Information Visualization?
• "The purpose of information
visualization is insight, not
pictures" -Ben Shneiderman
• Interactive representation of non-
physically based data
• Concerned with how people think,
human perception
• Has ties to cognitive science,
psychology, data mining
3. Info Vis Research Is Collaborative
• Must have data and problems to solve
• Must work with experts in other domains
– medical doctors - hearing data analysis
– social scientists - welfare data record linkage
– technology analysts - trends in scientific research
– web archivists - viewing collections of web archives
7. List of Web Pages
http://archive-it.org/collections/1068
8. Archived Versions of acda.co
http://wayback.archive-it.org/1068/*/http://acda.co/
9. Visualizations
• Treemap
K. Padia, Y. AlNoamany and M. C. Weigle, "Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It," In
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). June 2012.
10. Visualizations
• Treemap
• Time cloud
K. Padia, Y. AlNoamany and M. C. Weigle, "Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It," In
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). June 2012.
11. Visualizations
• Treemap
• Time cloud
• Image plot
K. Padia, Y. AlNoamany and M. C. Weigle, "Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It," In
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). June 2012.
12. Visualizations
• Treemap
• Time cloud
• Image plot
• Wordle
K. Padia, Y. AlNoamany and M. C. Weigle, "Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It," In
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). June 2012.
13. Visualizations
• Treemap
• Time cloud
• Image plot
• Wordle
K. Padia, Y. AlNoamany and M. C. Weigle, "Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It," In
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). June 2012.
14. Visualizations
• Treemap
• Time cloud
• Image plot
• Wordle
• Timeline
K. Padia, Y. AlNoamany and M. C. Weigle, "Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It," In
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). June 2012.
18. ODU's Web Science-Digital
Libraries (WS-DL) Group http://ws-dl.blogspot.com/
• Our recent work has been featured in the popular press
• We're always looking for good grad students!
Dr. Michele C. Weigle
Old Dominion University GHC 2012
Norfolk, VA
mweigle@cs.odu.edu
http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mweigle/
ODU, Norfolk, VA