"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-...

I’ve been having a few too many conversations like this. Them: Hi Kate, how are things with your work, with the world? Me: the university is under attack, democratic norms being broken in half, so, pretty bad. Them: But everything is going to come back and be okay after the midterms. Me: Uhh, no.

Common Crawl estimated 10M googl links impacted, which is probably a good estimate, but I was only able to find 1.3M archived in the Wayback Machine. More detailed analysis: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/08/2025...

Web links and websites disappear all the time. But Google’s planned erasure of millions of links at once demonstrates the risks of putting our personal and collective digital histories in Big Tech’s hands. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... via @shiraovide.bsky.social

Federal investment has been the backbone of college and university research and development activities for 70+ years. Data from NCSES show that the federal funding has represented more than half of all R&D at colleges and universities every single year since 1953. 🔗 ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf25345

Reminder: this presentation is tomorrow (Wednesday), July 16 @ 11am EDT. @webscidl.bsky.social

The special issue, Networking Networks: A Festschrift in Honor of Clifford Lynch, guest edited by Joan K. Lippincott, is available as an open access supplement to portal: Libraries and the Academy via Project Muse 📔 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55108 We are grateful to all who made this tribute possible!

It seems that only the science community is noticing that NIH and NSF budgets are cut 40% and 55% in the budget bill, respectively. If you live in Maine, West Va, Pennsylvania, Alabama, or Louisiana, CALL YOUR SENATOR as they could make a difference. See below. prospect.org/politics/202...

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...

Midway through our #DigitalHistory workshop in #Lesvos 🇬🇷 Fieldwork ✅ #Interdisciplinary mashups ✅ Faculty talks, deep dives, & solo study time ✅ Post-lunch excursions to Petra & Molyvos to look forward to! 🏖️☀️ Learning a ton + loving this #nerdcation

🕸️ Here's a great conference report on #RESAW25 "The Datafied Web" at Siegen University by Lesley Frew 👉 ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/06/2025...

Join us for a new #DPClinic on 16 July where prof. Michael L. Nelson will discuss a Vision for Trustworthy Web Archiving! Read more, find your local time and register at: buff.ly/13g7gUm All are welcome 😊 #DigitalPreservation #Coalition #DPC #digipres #community #LetsConnect #JoinUs

Lecturer in Data Science (#F1048A) non-TT position, starting Fall 2025 4+4 teaching load reviews start on 2025-06-23 jobs.odu.edu/postings/23300

“api-catalog: A Well-Known URI and Link Relation to Help Discovery of APIs” is now RFC 9727 https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9727 It is the basis of FAIRiCat, a specification that details how to advertise the interoperability affordances provided by a repository https://signposting.org/FAIRiCat/

Did your NEH proposal or project funding get killed off? Please share it at this week's @ach.bsky.social virtual conference! Testify to the impact! Share what you had started! Share what you hoped & dreamed! Open to all 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Help us spread the word?

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

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

I've uploaded the video from the 2025 @webscidl.bsky.social Research Expo ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/05/2025...

✍️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