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).

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

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

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

✍️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

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 👩‍💻💪

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

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

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-...

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-...

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-...

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...

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

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-...