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Alexander C. Nwala
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Assistant professor @williamandmary @WMdatascience. Postdoc @OSoMe_IU. PhD @WebSciDL @odu.
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Excited to share my internship experience with the @archive.org as a Google Summer of Code 2025 contributor!

✍️ blog post: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...

🙏 @ibnesayeed.bsky.social, @mark.bsky.social, @weiglemc.bsky.social, @phonedudemln.bsky.social, @acnwala.bsky.social, @webscidl.bsky.social.
2025-10-10: An Internship Experience With the Internet Archive as a Google Summer of Code Contributor
The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.
ws-dl.blogspot.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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phonedudemln.bsky.social
@webscidl.bsky.social's own Lesley Frew!

big congrats to @weiglemc.bsky.social for recruiting her.

www.odu.edu/article/odu-...
ODU Helps Fill Virginia's Need for More Computer Science Teachers
By Tiffany Whitfield
www.odu.edu
August 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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machawk1.bsky.social
Just released Mink 3.0!

The Chrome extension integrates live & archived web. In v 3.0 we've:
* updated to MV3
* integrated #MementoWeb aggregator fallback

Give it a spin 🔗 & report any bugs🪲
#WebArchiveWednesday #webarchiving

🪲 github.com/machawk1/mink
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mink-...
Mink - Integrate Live & Archived Web +Memento - Chrome Web Store
Integrating the Live and Archived Web Viewing Experience Using Memento
chromewebstore.google.com
June 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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phonedudemln.bsky.social
Lecturer in Data Science (#F1048A)

non-TT position, starting Fall 2025
4+4 teaching load

reviews start on 2025-06-23

jobs.odu.edu/postings/23300
Lecturer in Data Science (Non-Tenured)
The School of Data Science at Old Dominion University invites applications for a Lecturer position, starting in Fall 2025. We are seeking a dynamic and dedicated educator with a passion for teaching a...
jobs.odu.edu
June 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
acnwala.bsky.social
Is it just me, but has anyone else been noticing a rise in CAPTCHA's? I now have to prove to a lot of websites that I'm a human being.
July 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
acnwala.bsky.social
Introducing 3DLNews2: version 2 of our
three-decade dataset of US local news articles built from a 3.5 month-long scraping effort:

github.com/wm-newslab/3...
* 1995 -- 2024: 4 million URLs (with HTML text)
* 14k local newspapers, TV, & radio in 50 states (newsresearch.lab.wm.edu/tools/local-...)
February 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
acnwala.bsky.social
I would love to visit Paris.

Which Paris?
Paris, France or Paris, Virginia, or Paris, Texas.

Welcome to annoying problem of toponym disambiguation

Greatness Emmanuel-King (@WMdatascience, @Microsoft) tested a dozen tools for this so you don't have to:
github.com/wm-newslab/t...

You're welcome!
GitHub - wm-newslab/toporesolve
Contribute to wm-newslab/toporesolve development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
January 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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bergisjules.bsky.social
Applications now open for @atbw.bsky.social’s Web Archiving School. We’re recruiting fellows, instructors, and teaching assistants. Everyone is paid. Apply by January 31st, 2025. www.archivingtheblackweb.org/warc-school/
WArc School – ATBW
www.archivingtheblackweb.org
December 28, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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phonedudemln.bsky.social
@webscidl.bsky.social #CIKM2024 Trip Report:

33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2024

ws-dl.blogspot.com/2024/11/2024...
2024-11-15: The 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2024 Trip Report
The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.
ws-dl.blogspot.com
November 20, 2024 at 10:02 PM