Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2023 was a hybrid conference with the in-person event at Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza , New Mexico and virtual attendees joining via Zoom. JCDL 2023 conference took place from June 26-30 and it was hosted by Los Alamos National Laboratory . JCDL is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues. Members of our Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) research group (current and former) presented 9 papers and posters and won three awards at JCDL 2023. Best Student Paper Award: Making Changes in Webpages Discoverable: A Change-Text Search Interface for Web Archives (Lesley Frew, Michael Nelson, and Michele Weigle) Best Short Paper Award: MetaEnhance: Metadata Quality Improvement for Electronic Theses and Dissertations of University Libraries (Muntabir Hasan Choudhury, Lamia Salsabil, Himarsha R. Jayanetti, Jian Wu, William A. Ingram, and Edward A. Fox) Best P...

  John Kunze presenting "Up and running with ARK persistable identifiers" JCDL 2023 ( main trip report ) featured a doctorial consortium , three tutorials and six workshops (including  EEKE  and  WADL ). John Kunze ( @jakkbl ) presented the first tutorial of the conference on “Up and running with ARK persistable identifiers.” ARK ( @arks_org ) stands for Archival Resource Key. “Persistable” is preferred over the more common term, “persistent.” Persistable identifiers of different kinds have been around for 20 years and are used for academic papers ( DOIs ) and infrastructure ( URNs and Handles ). These (sometimes expensive) persistable identifiers don’t always meet the needs of the average researcher today for projects such as in digital humanities. Thus, ARKs were created as a free persistable identifier available for a variety of uses. The site N2T.net (Name to Thing) is the main website used for connecting an ARK identifier with its object resolutio...

The 2023 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL' 23)  was held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, from June 26-30, 2023. The first day started with Doctoral Consortium (DC) with a few other workshops and tutorials. The JCDL DC is a pre-conference event that allows doctoral students to discuss their dissertation work with other doctoral students and an international panel of professional researchers and scientists. DC aims to help Ph.D. students with their theses and research plans by providing feedback and general advice in a constructive environment. Source:  https://2023.jcdl.org/ . @jcdl2023 is happening now at Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza, New Mexico, hosted by @LosAlamosNatLab . I am excited to present my doctoral consortium paper at #jcdl2023 in-person. @NirdsLab @WebSciDL @oducs @ODUSCI pic.twitter.com/nTHmfcNVav — Yasasi (@Yasasi_Abey) June 26, 2023 . @jcdl2023 Doctoral Consortium is just started. The session started with the introduction of the prof...