ODU CS 791/891 for Fall 2017.

Office Hours: Mondays/Wednesdays 9-10am (Weigle, r. 3206), Thursdays 3-4 (Nelson), and by appointment

Time: Wednesdays 2:00pm - 4:30pm

Place: E&CS, r. 3102

Week 1 - August 30 - (no class)
Week 2 - September 6 - Administrivia, W3C Web Architecture, Memento
Week 3 - September 13 - Memento (continued)
Week 4 - September 20 - What’s PhD Research?, What’s It Like To Work in the WS-DL Lab? - in-class work
Week 5 - September 27 - Citation Analysis
Week 6 - October 4 - Creating Collections w/ WARCreate, WAIL, webrecorder.io, Archive-It - WARCreate, WAIL, webrecorder.io slides, Archive-It slides
Week 7 - October 11 - WS-DL Reflections, Web Archive Profiling, MemGator, Docker
Week 8 - October 18 - No class
Week 9 - October 25 - Student review of archiving services, “WhatDidItLookLike” and “icanhazmemento” Twitter Bots
Week 10 - November 1 - Local Memory Project, James Bond and the Land of Always Winter
Week 11 - November 8 - How to prepare and give an academic presentation, How to write an academic a paper
Week 12 - November 15 - CarbonDate, Raw Mementos: IIPC 2017 presentation, 2016-04-27 proposal, 2016-08-15 proposal, Counting Mementos
Week 13 - November 22 - (Thanksgiving holiday, no class)
Week 14 - November 29 - Dissertationpalooza, part 1 (Frank:Nauman, Joan:Miranda, Martin:Plinio, Chuck:Hussam)
Week 15 - December 6 - Dissertationpalooza, part 2 (Ahmed:Maheedar, Hany:Brian, Justin:Girish, Yasmin:Grant)
Week 16 - December 13 - Exam Week

Weekly assignment: Tweet something interesting with “#TIL @WebSciDL” and be prepared to give a 1 minute summary at the beginning of each class
Week 4 reading assignment (due before class)
- Ron Azuma, “So long and thanks for the PhD”
- One of the “wrap-up blog” posts from our PhD Alumni, links available at https://ws-dl.cs.odu.edu/Main/People
- S. Keshav, “How to Read a Paper”
Week 6 assignment - Creating your own web collections
- part 1 - due Oct 11
- part 2 - due Oct 25 - see assignment page for requirements
Weeks 14 and 15 – Dissertationpalooza!