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-...