Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

Dr. Herzog : This large green area on your left is Sanssouci Park . It has 11 palaces in it. Yasmin : I want to visit this park after we are back from the university, can we? Dr. Herzog : We sure can... I think we will be back before sunset. Yasmin : I love beautiful things. Dr. Herzog : Who doesn't? Sawood : [Smiles] The three souls were heading to the Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal University from Potsdam, Germany in Dr. Michael Herzog 's car for a lunch lecture on the topic of Digital Preservation. Yasmin and Sawood from the Web Science and Digita Libraries Research Group of the Old Dominion University , Norfolk, Virginia were invited for the talk by Dr. Herzog at his SPiRIT Research Group . The two WSDL members have presented their work at TPDL 2015 in Poznan, Poland then on their way back home they ware halted and hosted by Dr. Herzog in Germany for the lunch lecture. You may also enjoy the TPDL 2015 trip report by Yasmin . Passing by beautiful landsc...

The Old Market Square in Poznan On September 15 2015, Sawood Alam and I ( Yasmin AlNoamany ) attended the 2015 Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) Conference in Poznan, Poland. This year, WS-DL had four accepted papers in TPDL for three students ( Mohamed Aturban (who could not attend the conference because of visa issues), Sawood Alam, and Yasmin AlNoamany). Sawood and I arrived in Poznan on Monday, Sept. 14. Although we were tired from travel, we could not resist walking to the the best area in Poznan, the old market square . It was fascinating to see those beautiful colorful houses at night with the reflection of the water on them after it rained with the beautiful European music by many artists who were playing in the street. The next morning we headed to the conference, which was held in Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center . The organization of the conference was amazing and the general conference co-chairs, Marcin Werla and Cezary Mazurek , wer...