About Me

I am a Professor of Computer Science at Old Dominion University, where I’ve been on faculty since 2006. I’m a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill (PhD 2003, MS 1998) and Northeast Louisiana University (BS 1996). I’m currently featured on the ODU Faculty Women in STEM page, where you can read a bit about my background and experiences as a woman in computer science.

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

For an overview of what I’ve been working on the past few years, see On the importance of web archiving, an article I wrote for SSRC Parameters in 2018.

Teaching (Spring 2022)

CS 725/825 - Information Visualization & Data Analytics / Tu 4:20-7pm, MGB 0127 and online via Zoom
CS 800 - Research Methods / TR 11am-12:15pm, GORNT 0205 and online via Zoom

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 and Talks

Jones, Shawn M., Weigle, Michele C., and Nelson, Michael L., “Hypercane: Toolkit for Summarizing Large Collections of Archived Webpages,” ACM SIGWEB Newsletter, No. Summer, October 2021.
Shawn Jones, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “Hypercane: Intelligent Sampling for Web Archive Collections,” In Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). September 2021, pp. 316-317, poster.
Abigail Mabe, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “Extending Chromium: Memento-aware Browser,” In Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). September 2021, pp. 310-311, poster.
Sawood Alam, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “Profiling Web Archival Voids for Memento Routing,” In Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). September 2021, pp. 150-159.
Alexander C. Nwala, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “Garbage, Glitter, or Gold: Assigning Multi-dimensional Quality Scores to Social Media Seeds for Web Archive Collections,” In Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). September 2021, pp. 80-89.
Shawn M. Jones, Valentina Neblitt-Jones, Michele C. Weigle, Martin Klein, and Michael L. Nelson, “It’s All About The Cards: Sharing on Social Media Probably Encouraged HTML Metadata Growth,” In Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). September 2021, pp. 110-119.
Kritika Garg, Himarsha R. Jayanetti, Sawood Alam, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “Replaying Archived Twitter: When your bird is broken, will it bring you down?,” In Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). September 2021, pp. 160-169.
Dhruv Patel, Alexander C. Nwala, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “What Did It Look Like: A service for creating website timelapses using the Memento framework,” In Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). September 2021, pp. 340-341, poster.
Mohamed Aturban, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “Where Did the Web Archive Go?,” In Proceedings of the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries Conference (TPDL). September 2021. Best Research Paper Award.
Shawn M. Jones, Martin Klein, Herbert Van de Sompel, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “Interoperability for Accessing Versions of Web Resources with the Memento Protocol,” In The Past Web: Exploring Web Archives. (Daniel Gomes and Elena Demidova and Jane Winters and Thomas Risse, Eds.), Springer, 2021.

Recent Funding

Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle, Jian Wu, “Web Science and Web Security”, COVA CCI Curriculum Development, Jan 2022 - Aug 2022, $10,000
Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle, “Game Walkthroughs and Web Archiving”, IIPC Discretionary Funding Program, Jan 2022 - Dec 2022, $10,000.
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 - Sep 2023, $520,503.
Michael L. Nelson, 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 2022, $98,361.
Michael L. Nelson (PI), Improving the Dark and Stormy Archives Framework by Summarizing the Collections of the National Library of Australia, IIPC Discretionary Funding Program, Jan 2021 - Jan 2022, $50,000
Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson, Deborah Kempe (Frick Art Reference Library and New York Art Resources Consortium), Pamela Graham (Columbia University Libraries), and Alex Thurman (Columbia University Libraries), Visualizing Webpage Changes Over Time, NEH/IMLS Digital Humanities Advancement Grant HAA-256368-17, Oct 2017 – Mar 2020, $75,000 - blog post
Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle, and Herbert Van de Sompel (LANL), Preservation of Scholarly Record on the Web, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 11600663, Apr 2016 - Mar 2020, $830,000.

My full funding list is available in my CV.

Service

Editorial Board
- Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) (2016-present)
- International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL) (2018-present)
Faculty Advisor, ACM-W @ ODU
Faculty Representative, NCWIT Academic Alliance
ODU-CS Graduate Program Director, 2013-2019
Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), 2022
Program Co-Chair, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), 2016

Bio

Dr. Michele C. Weigle is a Professor of Computer Science at Old Dominion University. Her research interests include web science, digital preservation, and information visualization. Her research in web archiving includes developing tools for personal web archiving, improving access to web archives for general users and researchers, and applying information visualization to web archives. 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 over $3.7M from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She is currently serving 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. From 2004-2006, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Clemson University. She joined ODU in 2006.

Academic Timeline

July 2018 - present, Professor, Computer Science, Old Dominion University
July 2012 - July 2018, Associate Professor, Computer Science, Old Dominion University
July 2006 - July 2012, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Old Dominion University
July 2004 - July 2006, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Clemson University
August 2003 - June 2004, Visiting Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of North Carolina
August 2003, Ph.D., Computer Science, University of North Carolina
May 1998, M.S., Computer Science, University of North Carolina
May 1996, B.S., Computer Science (Honors Program), Northeast Louisiana University (now UL-Monroe)