Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

This summer (summer of 2022), we (Himarsha Jayanetti, Gavindya Jayawardena, and Yasith Jayawardana) got the opportunity to intern at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) under the Graduate Research Assistant Program . Himarsha and Yasith worked as a part of the Library's Research and Prototyping Team  (Proto Team) under the supervision of Drs. Martin Klein and Shawn M. Jones . Gavindya was supervised by Brian Cain on the Institutional Scientific Content (ISC) Team. Each of us was responsible for one of the three main components that make up the "PDFServer". What is the PDFServer? PDFServer is a prototype to support LANL's Review and Approval System for Scientific and Technical Information (RASSTI) , which is the starting point for collecting LANL’s documented scientific output and it provides workflows for authors and reviewers. The overall architecture of the PDFServer is displayed in Figure 1. We selected Laravel 9.11 , which is a PHP web application framewo...

A Twitter card often appears in a tweet when a user shares a URL. We found that if the page being shared on Twitter contains an HTML META redirect, Twitter will not follow it to gather information for the card. On October 26, we (Mat Kelly and Shawn Jones) were confused by a Tweet from Tamara Munzner  ( memento ) about IEEE VIS 2021 . We were both perplexed because the card in the tweet displays the text "IEEE VIS 2020 " instead of "IEEE VIS 2021 ". A screenshot of Tamara Munzner 's tweet promoting IEEE VIS 2021. We use a screenshot instead of an embed in case Twitter fixes this issue. As mentioned in Shawn's recent ACM/IEEE JCDL 2021 and ACM Web Science 2021 papers, his dissertation , and  Twitter's Card documentation , whenever a web page is shared on Twitter, Twitter searches for META tags inside the page. If these META tags have values for the fields twitter:card , twitter:title , twitter:description , and twitter:image , then Twitter will use ...