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☑️ 🎓 Graduation from @ODU
☑️ 🏆 Innovation Award from @NDSA2
☑️ 💼 Job at @internetarchive
Accomplished in the reverse order!
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A Longitudinal Panel of Open Access Data and Software URLs from PLOS Publications
Resource paper
William Ingram, Bipasha Banerjee, Edward Fox (all VT); and Spencer Peloquin, Chameli Dommanige, @liya_lamia, Rochana R. Obadage; @ibnesayeed; @fanchyna
doi.org/10.1145/3805696.3848…
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End-to-End Contextualized URL Extraction from Scholarly Papers
Main proceedings, long paper
@liya_lamia, Rochana R. Obadage, @ibnesayeed, @fanchyna; and Bipasha Banerjee, William Ingram, Edward Fox (all 3 VT)
Paper: doi.org/10.1145/3805696.3846…
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URL Extraction from Scholarly Documents: A Cross-Format Comparative Analysis
Main proceedings, long paper
Rochana Obadage, @liya_lamia, @ibnesayeed, @fanchyna; and William Ingram, Bipasha Banerjee, Edward Fox (all VT)
Paper: doi.org/10.1145/3805696.3846…
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Excited to share that our team has received a $750,000 award from IMLS for CiteCast, a project that will help identify and preserve web resources referenced in U.S. TV news!
@WebSciDL blog✍️: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/08/2…
Drs. @acnwala, @ibnesayeed, @phonedude_mln, & @weiglemc
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I'm honored to lead this project at @williamandmary, & sincerely grateful to work with an exception team of @ODU & @internetarchive collaborators: @phonedude_mln @weiglemc @ibnesayeed
We'll identify/preserve web resources that are ref. in archived US local & national TV news
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I'm humbled to share that our project, "CiteCast: Linking US local & national television news to cited web resources," has been selected to receive an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants - Libraries award.
imls.gov/grants/awarded/lg-2…
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RIP Ask Jeeves. The natural-language search engine founded in 1996 was rebranded as Ask in 2006, and officially shut down on May 1.
Here are the Wayback Machine’s first and last captures of the site.
When websites disappear, the historical record can disappear with them. The @WaybackMachine preserves that history – capturing the web so its past remains accessible.
Explore 30 years of web history: web.archive.org
#90s #90sNostalgia #WebHistory #WebDesign
ALT Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Gone" then "askjeeves.com / ask.com". Below are Wayback Machine captures of the websites from December 19, 1996 and May 3, 2026; the latter signaling the end of the service.
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🚨 The authors found that, by mid-2025, 35% of newly published websites were AI-generated or AI-assisted (up from zero before ChatGPT’s launch).
Interesting paper on the impact of AI-generated text on the internet, relying on data from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
Congratulations to the paper authors Jonáš Doležal, @ibnesayeed, @MarkGraham, and @matybohacek.
Most people don't think about it, but soon, the vast majority of the internet will be AI-generated or AI-assisted (and it will be used to train LLMs that will output more AI text).
We still don't know the individual and collective practical implications of this.
👉 Download the full paper below.
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This study is an important part of Vanishing Culture, the new book OUT TODAY from @internetarchive. 🕳️
Read for free or purchase in print ➡️ archive.org/details/vanishin…
A @pewresearch study found that 38% of webpages from a decade ago and 25% of pages sampled across the decade are now inaccessible; @internetarchive's analysis shows that the @waybackmachine has rescued roughly 15% of those otherwise dead pages.
blog.archive.org/2026/04/23/…
#linkrot
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Read the full study from Sawood Alam @ibnesayeed here: blog.archive.org/2026/04/23/…
The web is disappearing 🕳️
According to a Pew Research Center report, 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are no longer accessible.
But that’s not the whole story.
In a new study published in Internet Archive's book, VANISHING CULTURE, data scientists working with the Wayback Machine have found:
16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine.
56% are preserved before they disappear.
Preservation is the remedy for cultural loss.
📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from the Internet Archive
📖 Download & read: archive.org/details/vanishin…
🛒 Purchase in print: betterworldbooks.com/product…
#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #BookTwitter
ALT Infographic titled “URLs Preserved in the Wayback Machine” based on a dataset of 5.4 million URLs. It shows 26% of web pages are dead and 74% are still alive. Of the total, 10% have vanished completely, 18% are endangered (not yet preserved), 16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine, and 56% are preserved. The visual uses a flow-style diagram to show how preservation reduces permanent loss.
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A @pewresearch study found that 38% of webpages from a decade ago and 25% of pages sampled across the decade are now inaccessible; @internetarchive's analysis shows that the @waybackmachine has rescued roughly 15% of those otherwise dead pages.
blog.archive.org/2026/04/23/…
#linkrot
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Trip report for the 2025 ACM Hypertext Conference #HT2025 @ACMHT
@WebSciDL PhD students @tarannum_zaki, @rochanaro, & @DomSoos and alumni @machawk1 & @ibnesayeed attended in September, 2025.
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/11/2…
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The web has a memory — and we’ve saved 1 trillion pages of it! 🌐
Join the @InternetArchive for The Web We’ve Built, a celebration of the people, stories & technology that preserve our digital world.
📅 Oct 22
🎟️ In Person ➡️ eventbrite.com/e/the-web-wev…
🖥️ Virtual ➡️ eventbrite.com/e/the-web-wev…
#Wayback1T #Livestream
ALT Poster with a gradient blue background. Large text reads “the web we’ve built.” Smaller text says “Celebrating 1 trillion web pages archived.” Pixelated 3D icons of a floppy disk, magnifying glass, cursor arrow, computer window, and others radiate outward from a bright starburst in the center. On the right, text lists event details: “Wednesday, October 22, 5–10PM PT. Live stream: 7–8PM PT. 300 Funston Avenue, San Francisco.” The Internet Archive logo appears in the bottom right corner.
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Goodbye, goo.gl/0R8XX6.
1. I confirmed that goo.gl no longer redirects unlucky short URLs
2. hooray for @waybackmachine & archived redirects!
3. twist: different HTML 404 pages for deprecated vs. never valid short URLs!
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Excited to share my internship experience with the @internetarchive as a @Google Summer of Code 2025 contributor!
✍️@WebSciDL blog post: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2…
🙏 @ibnesayeed, @MarkGraham, @r_macdonald, @TVNewsArchive, @weiglemc, @phonedude_mln, @acnwala, @oducs, and @ODUSCI.
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Had the opportunity to present our work, 'Toward Robust URL Extraction for Open Science: A Study of arXiv File Formats and Temporal Trends' at #WADL2025 #HT2025
Grateful for the support from @fanchyna @liya_lamia @WebSciDL @ibnesayeed @sudobear @bipasha_bb @edwardafox
.@rochanaro from @WebSciDL and @oducs is presenting "Toward Robust URL Extraction for Open Science: A Study of arXiv File Formats and Temporal Trends" at #WADL2025 #HT2025
📄 wadlworkshop.github.io/2025/…
@ibnesayeed @sudobear @bipasha_bb @edwardafox @fanchyna #LAMPS_LAB
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.@ibnesayeed from @internetarchive is presenting "Lost, but Preserved - A Web Archiving Perspective on the Ephemeral Web" at #WADL2025 #HT2025
📄 wadlworkshop.github.io/2025/…
@MarkGraham
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.@rochanaro from @WebSciDL and @oducs is presenting "Toward Robust URL Extraction for Open Science: A Study of arXiv File Formats and Temporal Trends" at #WADL2025 #HT2025
📄 wadlworkshop.github.io/2025/…
@ibnesayeed @sudobear @bipasha_bb @edwardafox @fanchyna #LAMPS_LAB
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📢 Big news from Internet Archive Europe!
🌍 @IFLA has signed the Four Digital Rights for Memory Institutions, asserting that in the digital age, libraries, archives & museums must be able to:
📥 Collect
🛡️ Preserve
📖 Provide Access
🤝 Cooperate
🔗⤵️
internetarchive.eu/2025/07/3…
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What does the web mean to you?
As we celebrate 1 trillion webpages archived in the Wayback Machine, we want to hear your story. Why does preserving the web matter to you?
📝 Share your story now: forms.gle/c3XqotHUToKe2pZw5
#Wayback1T #WaybackMachine
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