Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

  The 17th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci 2025) took place at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey The 17th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci 2025) was held from May 20–23 at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The theme was "Maintaining a Human-Centric Web in the Era of Generative AI" and highlighted the interdisciplinary nature of Web Science, which examines the complex, reciprocal relationship between the Web and society. This trip report is authored by Kritika Garg and David Calano from the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WSDL) research group at Old Dominion University , who had the pleasure of attending and presenting at the conference.  Tuesday, May 20, 2025 On the first day of the conference, a series of workshops and tutorials were held on cutting-edge topics such as Generative AI, the Human-Centric Web, and Information Security. Tutorials included sessions on using the National Internet Observatory for collecting web data for res...