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This wiki is for the internal communication of the WS-DL research group. Please edit and contribute to keep this wiki up-to-date and useful.

WS-DL Info and Status

• ECSB 3102 Lab Layout

• What's It Like to Work in the WS-DL Lab?

• Students.

• Projects.
  • Project Wishlist.
  • Building Projects.

• Datasets.

• Blog Plan.

• Writing good tweets, including "explainer threads".

• Publication plan.
  • Are You On Track?
  • Publication Point System
  • Publication Success/Failure
  • JCDL Submissions

• Proposal plan.
  • Funded Proposal Tasks
  • Previous, Unsuccessful Proposals.

• Scholarships and Awards.

• WS-DL Class Ideas.

• WS-DL Class Plan.

• Invited talks

• 2026 Info
  • Michael's Spring 2026 Weekly Meetings
  • Michael's Summer 2026 Weekly Meetings
  • Michael's Fall 2026 Weekly Meetings
  • 2026 Goals for WS-DL Members

• 2025 Info
  • Michael's Spring 2025 Weekly Meetings
  • Michael's Summer 2025 Weekly Meetings
  • Michael's Fall 2025 Weekly Meetings
  • 2025 Goals for WS-DL Members

• 2024 Info
  • Michael's Spring 2024 Weekly Meetings
  • Michael's Summer 2024 Weekly Meetings
  • Michael's Fall 2024 Weekly Meetings
  • 2024 Goals for WS-DL Members

• Prior Years Info

Onboarding new WS-DL Members

If you're bringing someone into WS-DL, be sure they get accounts, register, follow, etc. with the following:

• WS-DL Google Group / email list - admin: MLN

• WS-DL Blog - admin: MLN

• WS-DL Wiki - admin: Himarsha Jayanetti (hjaya002@odu.edu) | user list
  • WS-DL Wiki: Ongoing Issues Reported to Systems

• WS-DL Twitter @WebSciDL

• WS-DL GitHub Organization

• WS-DL Slack

• WS-DL Website - edits via https://github.com/oduwsdl/oduwsdl.github.io
  • group logos - https://github.com/oduwsdl/logo

• Spectrum of Scholarly Communication - this slide deck explains why we use Twitter, GitHub, Google Scholar, the blog, etc.

• Blog Post Guidelines - General Guidelines for writing a WS-DL Blog Post of Blogger

Reference Material

WS-DL on-campus/general:

• WS-DL Machines

• Printing

• Archives in the news

• New Web Repositories.

Writing:

• Clarity in Technical Reporting (NASA SP-7010)

• Candidacy Exams

• Candidacy Proposals - dissertation proposals

• Dissertation Checklist.

• Doctoral Consortium Submissions.

• LaTeX Templates.

• arXiv Submission

• IJDL Submission Lessons Learned

• Double blind submission tips

Coding:

• Data Science ebooks

• IR/Data Mining/NLP tips and tricks and code -- (work in progress).

• Weka.

• MechanicalTurk

• Subversion — Source code repository and versioning.

• Using R.

• AWStats

• LLMs

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