About Me
I am a Professor of Computer Science at Old Dominion University, where I’ve been on faculty since 2006. For an overview of my research direction for the past few years, see On the importance of web archiving, an article I wrote for SSRC Parameters in 2018. 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. (For more information, see my bio.)
Research Interests: web science, social media, web archiving, digital preservation, information visualization (see some student infovis projects in my infovis gallery)
Graduate Program Director
I am currently serving as the Graduate Program Director (GPD) for Administration in the Department of Computer Science. 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
I will be on research leave for the Fall 2022 semester, but will return to teaching courses in Spring 2023.
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
- Shawn M. Jones, Himarsha R. Jayanetti, Alex Osborne, Paul Koerbin, Martin Klein, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “The DSA Toolkit Shines Light Into Dark and Stormy Archives,” code{4}lib Journal, No. 53, May 2022.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Active Funding
- 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, Mar 2022 - Feb 2025, $324,000.
- 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, Jan 2022 - Dec 2024, Department of Defense Minerva Research Initiative, $1,618,699 - blog post
- Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle, Jian Wu, Web Science and Web Security, COVA CCI Curriculum Development, Jan 2022 - Aug 2022, $10,000 - blog post
- 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 - blog post
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)
- Steering Committee Member, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) (2020-present)
- 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
- Faculty Advisor, ACM-W @ ODU, 2013-2022
- Faculty Representative, NCWIT Academic Alliance
- ODU-CS Graduate Program Director, 2013-2019, 2022-present
Bio
Dr. Michele C. Weigle is a Professor of Computer Science at Old Dominion University. Her research interests include web science, social media, digital preservation, 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 almost $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.
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 University of Louisiana at Monroe)