We also published a blog post on Information Matters, which provides a summary of our process for creating a dataset of 279 archived web ads and the problems we identified while archiving and replaying these ads. (2/9) #WebArchiveWednesday @webscidl.bsky.social informationmatters.org/2025/12/prob...

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)

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...

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

From @cnn.com: Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are being saved www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/b...

Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content

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...

No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?

The FBI is trying to unmask the owner of infamous archiving site Archive.is, according to a subpoena the site posted. No other information given, the site quietly posted the document a few days ago. FBI telling domain registrar to hand over all sorts of ID'ing info www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...

Kate Zwaard, CNI Director, will open the CNI meeting, followed by an overview of #AI and #ML in the #libraries and #InformationScience context from Ben Lee, founder of the Lab for Computing #CulturalHeritage. The list of preliminary project briefings is also now live. More to come! @bcgl.bsky.social

This is why we can’t have nice things

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

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...

Really excited to share this new paper on "Data Visualizations as Propaganda", co-led by PhD students Priya Dhawka and Nina Lutz, which just won a Best Paper award at the CSCW conference: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... [Short thread]

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...

AlArabiyah's use of web archives to investigate the "NortaLink" (shell / fake company) web sites. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...

"Reign in Science", ODU College of Sciences, Oct 11, 2025 ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...

LIL fellow @maxy.bsky.social asked 14 scholars, archivists, designers, business leaders & engineers: "If you were given unlimited funding to design a system for storing and preserving digital information for at least a century, what would you do?" Their answers: lil.law.harvard.edu/generational...

Was honoured to be part of this series, and to see so many thoughtful perspectives on this question! Check it out.

"The world after robots.txt is already visible. Content creators are retreating behind technical barriers, Cloudflare is becoming the new gatekeeper of the internet, and the open web is fragmenting into licensed silos." ht @hvdsomp.w3c.social.ap.brid.gy www.heise.de/en/backgroun...

Goodbye, goo.gl/0R8XX6. 1. I confirmed that goo.gl no longer redirects unlucky short URLs 2. hooray for @waybackmachine.bsky.social & archived redirects! 3. twist: different HTML 404 pages for deprecated vs. never valid short URLs! ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025... #Wayback1T #WaybackMachine

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.

Faculty search ODU Data Science: Accelerator Science Tenured, associate or full prof jobs.odu.edu/postings/23963

Faculty search ODU Data Science: AI-Infused Autonomous Systems for Medicine and Health T/TT, open rank jobs.odu.edu/postings/24399

Faculty search ODU Data Science: Critical Infrastructure and Data Transformation (CID) to Advance National Security T/TT, open rank jobs.odu.edu/postings/24241

The Internet Archive @archive.org has an exciting slate of events lined up for their 29th anniversary, including hitting 1T archived pages! Check out: blog.archive.org/trillion/ #Wayback1T #WaybackMachine

🌐 From the first web page created in 1991… to 1 trillion web pages archived today. Every meme, blog, tweet & vanished site is part of our shared story. This is our collective memory. And it’s being saved. Join in our celebration this October: blog.archive.org/trillion/ #Wayback1T #WaybackMachine

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

📣This #WebArchiveWednesday, plan your proposal for #iipcWAC26, “Sustainable #WebArchiving,” at KBR, Royal Library of Belgium! netpreserve.org/ga2026/CfP 🗓️ Deadline for proposals: OCT 15 #webarchives #DigitalPreservation #DigitalHumanities

📣This #WebArchiveWednesday, plan your proposal for #iipcWAC26, “Sustainable #WebArchiving,” at KBR, Royal Library of Belgium! netpreserve.org/ga2026/CfP 🗓️ Deadline for proposals: OCT 15 #webarchives #DigitalPreservation #DigitalHumanities

2 days left (September 19, 2025 AoE) to submit Resources (Data/Software); JCDL 2025 invites submissions to a dedicated Resources Track, focused on public datasets, software & benchmarks. CFP: 2025.jcdl.org/call-for-res... #JCDL2025 #digitallibraries

@tarannum44.bsky.social from @webscidl.bsky.social is up next at #ACMHT2025 describing web archives usage for verifying attribution of Twitter screenshots with a compelling use case of one's love for pineapple pizza. 🍍🍕 @phonedudemln.bsky.social

Another Web Archiving & Digital Libraries (WADL) workshop is in the books as we completed the 2025 iteration at ACM Hypertext 2025! #ACMHT2025 Did you miss it? See the papers and soon slides and recorded video: 🔗 wadlworkshop.github.io Photo credit: Tarannum Zaki

At the HUMAN workshop ( @human-ht.bsky.social ) at Day 2 of ACM Hypertext, Cathy Marshall gives the keynote with a story about John Tukey looking data at large while she was close reading the data (i.e., observing microwaved Ivory soap) #ACMHT2025

⏳⏳⏳20 hrs left (Sep 12th, 2025 AoE) to submit Full papers, Short papers, Workshops & Tutorials !!! CFP: 2025.jcdl.org/call-for-pap... #JCDL2025 #digitallibraries

For more information on Call for papers, please visit: 2025.jcdl.org/call-for-pap...

✨ The call for proposals for the CNI Fall 2025 Membership Meeting is now open. Project briefings highlight state-of-the-art developments, timely topics, and projects related to networked information content and technologies. 📍 Meeting: Dec. 11–12 in Washington, DC. 🗓 Deadline: October 10

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...

Hi Seattle! Come see my talk on the history of human-computer interaction. I'll explain U.S. gov funding of science has led to many of the innovations that power our economy & shape our lives — and call out the short-sightedness & hypocrisy of efforts to defund science in this field & so many others

Dr. Michele Weigle's (weiglemc.bsky.social & webscidl.bsky.social) interview with WAVY about the Computer Science for Teachers Graduate Certificate @ ODU. www.wavy.com/news/educati...

📢🚨🔔 JCDL 2025 has extended the deadlines CFPs: All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time: - Full/Short Paper Submission Deadline: September 12, 2025 - Author Notification: October 31, 2025 - Camera-Ready Deadline: November 14, 2025 2025.jcdl.org/registration/.

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...

The National Science Foundation is hosting an introductory webinar for the program, NSF Test Bed: Toward a Network of Programmable Cloud Laboratories (NSF PCL Test Bed). 📆 Aug. 20, 2025, at 3-4 p.m. EDT Register at:

Sadly a view that is all too common in my experience. (As a senior-ish administrator, many folks don’t realize that I’m /also/ a humanist when they make these suggestions to me)

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

The library is launching a project in collaboration with Harvard Law School and OpenAI this summer to digitize the materials and make them more fully searchable.

My career transition continues. First, it was the realization some years ago that I often got more out of keynotes at conferences than the technical presentations. Now, it's the realization that I just reacted with "that's a good strategy document!" ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/08/2025...

Part two: Who Cares About All Those Old goo.gl Links Anyway? TL;DR: likely 4000+ goo.gl URLs indexed in Google Scholar will be "lost" under the new sunset criteria (i.e., access in late 2024). ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/08/2025...

Based on a post (ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/08/2025...) by @phonedudemln.bsky.social about the goo.gl link shortner going away, I was curious about UNT ETDs using the shortner. In reference lists it looks like only 7 ETDs with a total of 74 shortened URLs could be affected.

DSHR gives detailed & insightful commentary on each of the articles in Cliff Lynch's Festschrift. blog.dshr.org/2025/07/the-...