Dr. Michele C. Weigle

Dr. Michele C. Weigle

Professor of Computer Science

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About Me

I am a Professor of Computer Science at Old Dominion University, where I’ve been on the faculty since 2006.

For an overview of my research over the past few years, see On the importance of web archiving, an article I wrote for SSRC Parameters in 2018. I recently gave an interview covering my background, our research group, and challenges facing web archive collections for the National Library of Medicine’s Circulating Now blog. I’m currently featured on the ODU Faculty Women in STEM page, where you can read a bit more about my background and experiences as a woman in computer science. For more information on my education and work experience, see my bio.

Research Interests: web science, social media, web archiving, information visualization (see some student infovis projects in my infovis gallery)

Graduate Program Director

I serve as the Graduate Program Director (GPD) for Administration in the Department of Computer Science. (We also have a GPD for Admissions and a GPD for Advising.) See our website for information on our graduate programs (Master’s Program, PhD Program). If you need to contact a CS GPD, please use csgpd@odu.edu.

Teaching (Fall 2023)

CS 625 - Data Visualization / TR 11am-12:15pm, BAL 2063

Research

I’m a member of the ODU Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) Research Group.

WS-DL Webpage WS-DL Twitter WS-DL Blog WS-DL GitHub

Recent Publications

  1. Emily Escamilla, Lamia Salsabil, Martin Klein, Jian Wu, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “It’s Not Just GitHub: Identifying Data and Software Sources Included in Publications,” In Proceedings of the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries Conference (TPDL). September 2023.    
  2. Himarsha R. Jayanetti, Erika Frydenlund, and Michele C. Weigle, “Xenophobic Events vs. Refugee Population – Using GDELT to Identify Countries with Disproportionate Coverage,” Poster presented at the 16th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRIMS), September 2023.    
  3. Kritika Garg, Himarsha R. Jayanetti, Sawood Alam, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “Challenges in replaying archived Twitter pages,” International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL), August 2023.  
  4. Shawn M. Jones, Martin Klein, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “Summarizing Web Archive Corpora Via Social Media Storytelling By Automatically Selecting and Visualizing Exemplars,” ACM Transactions on the Web, 2023.  
  5. John Berlin, Mat Kelly, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “To Re-experience the Web: A Framework for the Transformation and Replay of Archived Web Pages,” ACM Transactions on the Web, Vol. 17, No. 3, July 2023, pp. 1-49.  
  6. Mohamed Aturban, Martin Klein, Herbert Van de Sompel, Sawood Alam, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “Hashes are not suitable to verify fixity of the public archived web,” PLOS ONE, Vol. 18, No. 6, June 2023, pp. 1-49.  
  7. Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson, Sawood Alam, and Mark Graham, “Right HTML, Wrong JSON: Challenges in Replaying Archived Webpages Built with Client-Side Rendering,” In Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). June 2023.    
  8. Lesley Frew, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “Making Changes in Webpages Discoverable: A Change-Text Search Interface for Web Archives,” In Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). June 2023. Best Student Paper Award.    
  9. Haley Bragg, Himarsha Jayanetti, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “Less than 4% of Archived Instagram Account Pages for the Disinformation Dozen are Replayable,” In Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). June 2023, short paper.  
  10. Sawood Alam, Kritika Garg, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson, Mark Graham, and Dietrich Ayala, “TrendMachine: A Temporal Webpage Resilience Portal,” In Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). June 2023, late-breaking results.  

Active Funding

  • Michele C. Weigle (PI), Erika Frydenlund, Data Science for Social Good: Mining and Visualizing Worldwide News to Monitor Xenophobic Violence Towards Migrants and Refugees, ODU Data Science Seed Funding, Jul 2022 - Jun 2024, $38,000.
  • Erika Frydenlund (PI), Jose Padilla (VMASC), Michele C. Weigle, Jennifer Fish, Michael L. Nelson, Michaela Hynie (York University, Canada), Hanne Haaland (Univ of Agder, Norway), Hege Wallevik (Univ of Agder, Norway), Katherine Palacio-Salgar (Universidad del Norte, Columbia), What’s Missing? Innovating Interdisciplinary Methods for Hard-to-Reach Environments, Jul 2022 - Jul 2025, Department of Defense Minerva Research Initiative, $1,700,245 - blog post
  • Sampath Jayarathna (PI), Jian Wu, Senior Personnel: Michele C. Weigle, Michael Nelson, Vikas Ashok, Faryaneh Poursardar, Anne Perrotti (Education), Erika Frydenlund (VMASC), REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Disinformation Detection and Analytics, NSF REU Site (CNS 2149607), Mar 2022 - Feb 2025, $324,000.
  • Vicky Rampin (NYU), Martin Klein (LANL), wilkie (Univ. of Pittsburgh), Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle, CoSAI - Collaborative Software Archiving for Institutions, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Sep 2021 - Feb 2024, $520,503.
  • Michael L. Nelson (PI), Michele C. Weigle, Sue Kimmel, Jessica Ritchie, and Hongyi Wu, A Graduate Certificate in Web Archiving, IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program, RE-250048-OLS-21, Aug 2021 - Jul 2023, $98,361 - blog post

My full funding list is available in my CV.

Service

Bio

Dr. Michele C. Weigle is a Professor of Computer Science at Old Dominion University. Her research interests include web science, social media, web archiving, and information visualization. She has published over 115 articles in peer-reviewed conferences and journals and has served as PI or Co-PI on external research grants totaling $6M from a wide range of funders, including the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) and the International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL). Dr. Weigle received her PhD in computer science from the University of North Carolina in 2003.

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