2026 WS-DL Research Expo Tuesday, June 23, 2pm EDT All are welcome: members, alumni, friends, etc. github.com/oduwsdl/2026... 5 students, 1 from each @webscidl.bsky.social prof, will give a ~15 min summary of their current research. Status updates from profs & alumni too! (zoom link in repo)

Excited to share that I passed my PhD proposal defense on April 24, 2026 -- another step closer to finishing my PhD 🎓 Special thanks to my dissertation committee: @weiglemc.bsky.social, @phonedudemln.bsky.social, @acnwala.bsky.social, & Erika Frydenlund for their guidance & support.

Recently, Sawood (ibnesayeed.bsky.social) & I uncovered a tricky web archiving replay problem. An API call several layers of JS deep had superfluous browser size args that would intermittently load the wrong JSON for the archived HTML ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/05/2026... (all images/links are SFW)

2026-05-26: URL Arguments in API Calls Can Cause Intermittent Temporal Violations While Replaying Archived Web Pages

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Hussam Hallak @hussamhallak.bsky.social of @webscidl.bsky.social describes using Google Sheets to do a bulk upload of URLs to the "Save Page Now" service of the Wayback Machine @waybackmachine.bsky.social ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/02/2026...

2026-02-12: How to archive web pages in bulk using the Internet Archive Google Sheets service

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For this blog post, I summarized @bitarchivist.net, @wilkinson.graphics, and @ilya.webrecorder.net's paper, “High Fidelity Web Archiving of News Sites and New Media with Browsertrix.” @webscidl.bsky.social ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/02/2026...

2026-02-13: Paper Summary: "High Fidelity Web Archiving of News Sites and New Media with Browsertrix"

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In "Detecting and reconstructing trustworthy edit histories using web archives", I talk about different markers of edit history on webpages and how web archives can be used to verify or refute them. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/02/2026... @webscidl.bsky.social

Travis Reid @treid803.bsky.social @webscidl.bsky.social summarizes Brenda Reyes Ayala's @brendareyesayala.bsky.social 2025 paper: "Towards a better QA process: Automatic detection of quality problems in archived websites using visual comparisons" ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/01/2026...

2026-01-22: Paper Summary: "Towards a better QA process: Automatic detection of quality problems in archived websites using visual comparisons"

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Our JASIST article, "Problems with archiving and replaying current web advertisements", was recently published: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author... @wiley.com Co-authors: Alex Poole, Hyung Wook Choi, Christopher Rauch, @machawk1.bsky.social, @phonedudemln.bsky.social, @weiglemc.bsky.social (1/9)

In this blog post, I summarized Goel et al.’s "Jawa: Web Archival in the Era of JavaScript". They identified sources of non-determinism that cause replay problems and created a crawler that removes non-deterministic code. #WebArchiveWednesday @webscidl.bsky.social ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/06/2025...

2025-06-11: Paper Summary: "Jawa: Web Archival in the Era of JavaScript" (Goel et al. OSDI '22)

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✍️Our @webscidl.bsky.social trip report for ACM #CAPWIC2025 is now live! Check out the highlights by Yasasi, Lesley, Kritika, & I: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/05/2025... @weiglemc.bsky.social, @phonedudemln.bsky.social, @openmaze.bsky.social, @nirdslab.bsky.social

2025-05-12: ACM Capital Region Celebration of Women in Computing (CAPWIC) 2025 Trip Report

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This semester, all of my federal grants were terminated. In a new blog post, I write about the importance of federal funding for academic research and the impact of these cuts. @WebSciDL #NEH #IMLS #NSF ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/05/2025...

2025-05-08: Thank you to NEH, IMLS, DoD Minerva, and NSF

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I appreciate the chance to present "A Vision for Trustworthy Web Archiving" at the DPC Members Forum and Networking Event - Americas meeting at Vanderbilt University. bit.ly/Nelson-DPC2025

Nelson -- A Vision for Trustworthy Web Archiving -- DPC Members Forum and Networking Event - Americas 2025-04-24

A Vision for Trustworthy Web Archiving Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social with: Sawood Alam, Vikas Ashok, Mohamed Aturban, John Berlin, Justin Brunelle, Kritika Garg, Hussam Hallak, Himarsha ...

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One of the goals for the Saving Ads project was to create a dataset of advertisements from the live web. This blog post describes our process for creating this dataset: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/02/2025... #WebArchiveWednesday @webscidl.bsky.social (1/7)

2025-02-10: Creating a Dataset of Archived Web Ads

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Our new tech report (arxiv.org/abs/2502.01525): "Archiving and Replaying Current Web Advertisements…" describes the archiving and replay problems we encountered while creating a dataset of 279 archived ads. #WebArchiveWednesday @webscidl.bsky.social @machawk1 @phonedudemln @weiglemc (1/10)