Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

Good morning Newark! Beautiful start for the doctoral consortium and tutorials at #jcdl2016 pic.twitter.com/kEBdJtvIho — Michele Weigle (@weiglemc) June 19, 2016 The ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries ( JCDL ) is a major international conference that offers the opportunity to address technical, practical, and social issues associated with digital libraries. This annual conference was held at the Paul Robeson Campus Center, Rutgers University Newark, New Jersey, between June 19-23, 2016. Here is a list of the accepted papers  and posters/demos . The theme for this year's conference was Big Libraries, Big Data, Big Innovation. Computer/Information scientists, Librarians, Archivists, Social scientists, Historians and other participants from around the world and other disciples involved in digital library research and practice presented papers and posters, specialized workshops ( see Mat's blog post about the WADL workshop ), tuto...

A story on Storify titled: "Lecture on Academic Freedom"  (capture date: 2016-05-31) The story on Storify titled: "Lecture on Academic Freedom" could not be found on Google   (capture date: 2016-05-31) The story on Storify titled: "Lecture on Academic Freedom" could not be found on Storify native search  (capture date: 2016-05-31) A part of our research ( funded by IMLS ) to build collections for stories or events involves exploring content curation sites like Storify  in order to determine if they hold quality (news worthy, timely, etc.) content. Storify is a social network service used to create stories which consists of text and multimedia content, as well as content from other social media sites like Twitter , Facebook and Instagram . Our exploration involved collecting stories from Storify over a period in other to manually inspect the stories to determine their newsworthiness. This exploration was dual natured: we col...