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

Updated Spring 2024

Based on slides from CS 891 – Web Archiving Seminar, Fall 2017, https://phonedude.github.io/cs891-f17/

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WS-DL Labs

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WS-DL

(Nelson, Weigle)

LAMP-SYS

(Wu)

NiRDS

(Jayarathna)

Accessible Computing

(Ashok)

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Faculty in WS-DL (Spring 2024)

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Now faculty at VMASC, https://vmasc.org/

NiRDS Lab, https://nirdslab.github.io/

LAMP-SYS Lab

Accessible Computing Lab, https://www.cs.odu.edu/~vashok/Lab/

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PhD Students in WS-DL (Spring 2024)

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https://oduwsdl.github.io/#Students

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MS, BS Students in WS-DL (Spring 2024)

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https://oduwsdl.github.io/#Students

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Working in the WS-DL Lab

  • You are judged in the real world by results not effort
    • Just working long hours won't get you a PhD (or even a paper published)
    • If you deliver, then we don't care how much, where, or when you work
      • BUT, you would greatly benefit from working in the lab as much as possible when others are around

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Inspired by https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm/policy.txt

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Working in the WS-DL Lab

  • We expect you to work hard.
    • Research is a game where you're directly competing with lots of other people who are just as smart as you are, and many of them are working very hard.
    • Remember where GRAs come from…

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  • But, you should also take some vacation.
    • appropriately timed, of course

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Inspired by https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm/policy.txt

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Use Slack to Build Community

  • When you start working, login to ODU WS-DL Slack, and post "Hi" in the #general channel
    • use status to indicate where you are (defaults: In a meeting, At ECSB/ODU, At VMASC, Working remotely, Need to focus)
    • write your own as needed (ex: At Dragas, In office hours, etc.)
    • respect those who "Need to focus"
  • Be available to answer messages and general questions
  • When you're done for the day (or several hours), post "Bye" in the #general channel
  • Keep #general for work/school related discussion, use #random for other
  • Some faculty will be available for quick questions, chats

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https://oduwsdl.slack.com/

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Show Up to Support Your Colleagues

  • WS-DL shows up whenever another WS-DL member is presenting their work

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Read the WS-DL Blog

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http://ws-dl.blogspot.com/

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Read the WS-DL Blog

  • Trip reports
    • cool research that has been presented at conferences
    • names of other researchers in the area

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  • Paper summaries

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  • Small tidbits of research or useful tools
    • not quite enough for a paper, but enough to share

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  • WS-DL software releases

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https://ws-dl.blogspot.com/search/label/trip%20report

https://ws-dl.blogspot.com/search/label/paper%20summary

http://ws-dl.blogspot.com/

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Check Out the Annual Summaries

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https://ws-dl.blogspot.com/search/label/WS-DL%20Review

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Engage on Twitter/X

  • Twitter/X is a professional development tool

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  • Important people in our field use this for communication

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  • When you write a post for the WS-DL blog, you will tweet about it
    • this includes writing a good explainer thread to advertise your post, see

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https://twitter.com/clancynewyork/status/902133825110671360

https://ws-dl.cs.odu.edu/wiki/index.php/Writing_good_tweets,_including_%22explainer_threads%22

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Participate in #WebArchiveWednesday on Twitter/X

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https://ws-dl.cs.odu.edu/wiki/index.php/Lesley%27s_2023_Goals

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Webarchivewednesday&src=typed_query&f=live

Share what you've learned about web archiving in the past week.

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WS-DL Wiki - The Main Page is Useful…

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https://ws-dl.cs.odu.edu/wiki/

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But, Recent Changes is the Key

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https://ws-dl.cs.odu.edu/wiki/index.php/Special:RecentChanges

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Embrace the WS-DL Wiki - For Yourself

Individual pages on the wiki are only viewable by WS-DL members

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  • Keep a daily log
    • easiest to put new stuff at the top
    • the wiki will automatically add a Table of Contents when you have more than a few headings

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  • Keep notes while you're working

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  • Read other students' updates

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Embrace the WS-DL Wiki - �For Your Aging Advisors

  • Post a summary of your work to discuss during meetings
    • if you want to show us something, put it on the wiki before the meeting -- "no magic laptops"
    • if you tell us that you got an odd result or something went wrong, we're going to ask to see an example – put it on the wiki before the meeting

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  • Post meeting notes
    • there will be lots of brilliant things said during your meetings with your advisors – we will not remember them

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Create New Wiki Pages Using Your User Namespace

For more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_pages#Creating_a_subpage

  • User namespaces help prevent collisions on page names
  • Easy access to all the pages under your user namespace (see below)

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Example: https://ws-dl.cs.odu.edu/wiki/index.php/Special:PrefixIndex/User:LesleyFrew/

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Set Annual Goals - and Update the Page as you Achieve Them

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https://ws-dl.cs.odu.edu/wiki/index.php/2024_Goals_for_WS-DL_Members

https://ws-dl.cs.odu.edu/wiki/index.php/Michele%27s_2023_Goals

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Post Your Code to the WS-DL GitHub

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https://github.com/oduwsdl

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Google Scholar Is Your Friend

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https://scholar.google.com

Search for papers

Find citations

Get recommendations

Keep track of your own publications

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Tracking Citations

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https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=MOLPTqcAAAAJ

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Tracking Publications – sort by year

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Create a Scholar Account

  • Make it public
  • Sign up for alerts

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  • While you're at it, sign up for an ORCID
    • https://orcid.org

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Tip: Sign up with your personal Google account, not your ODU one. Once you graduate, it may be difficult to migrate

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WS-DL Publication Points

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https://ws-dl.cs.odu.edu/wiki/index.php/Publication_Point_System

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Tracking Progress - Publishing

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https://ws-dl.cs.odu.edu/wiki/index.php/Are_You_On_Track%3F

Add your name and edit the page to keep track

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Tracking Progress – PhD Crush

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See all the pics at https://github.com/oduwsdl/crushProgress

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