The Web Sciences and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) group at Old Dominion University focuses on research areas that include web archiving, web science, social media, digital preservation, human-computer interaction, information visualization, and mining scholarly data.

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Submissions from 2024

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Building Datasets to Support Information Extraction and Structure Parsing from Electronic Theses and Dissertations, William A. Ingram, Jian Wu, Sampanna Yashwant Kahu, Javaid Akbar Manzoor, Bipasha Banerjee, Aman Ahuja, Muntabir Hasan Choudhury, Lamia Salsabil, Winston Shields, and Edward A. Fox

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Short: Can Citations Tell Us About a Paper's Reproducibility? A Case Study of Machine Learning Papers, Rochana R. Obadage, Sarah M. Rajtmajer, and Jian Wu

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Archiving Digital Marketing: Examining Preservation of Dynamic Content on the Web Through the Lens of Online Advertisements, Christopher Rauch, Alex H. Poole, Travis Reid, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson, Faryaneh Poursardar, and Mat Kelly

Submissions from 2023

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Hashes Are Not Suitable to Verify Fixity of the Public Archived Web, Mohamed Aturban, Martin Klein, Herbert Van de Sompel, Sawood Alam, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle

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Summarizing Web Archive Corpora Via Social Media Storytelling By Automatically Selecting and Visualizing Exemplars, Shawn M. Jones, Martin Klein, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson

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Kumushini Thennakoon (Computer Science PhD Student), Kumushini Thennakoon

Submissions from 2022

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InSupport: Proxy Interface for Enabling Efficient Non-Visual Interaction With Web Data Records, Javedul Ferdous, Hae-Na Lee, Sampath Jayarathna, and Vikas Ashok

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Segmenting Technical Drawing Figures in US Patents, Md Reshad Ul Hoque, Xin Wei, Muntabir Hasan Choudhury, Kehinde Ajayi, Martin Gryder, Jian Wu, and Diane Oyen

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ArithFusion: An Arithmetic Deep Model for Temporal Remote Sensing Image Fusion, Md Reshad Ul Hoque, Jian Wu, Chiman Kwan, Krzysztof Koperski, and Jiang Li

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StreamingHub: Interactive Stream Analysis Workflows, Yasith Jayawardana, Vikas G. Ashok, and Sampath Jayarathna

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The DSA Toolkit Shines Light Into Dark and Stormy Archives, Shawn Morgan Jones, Himarsha R. Jayanetti, Alex Osborne, Paul Koerbin, Klein Martin, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson

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Memento Validator: A Toolset for Memento Compliance Testing, Bhanuka Mahanama, Lyudmila Balakireva, Sampath Jayarathna, Michael Nelson, and Martin Klein

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Eye Movement and Pupil Measures: A Review, Bhanuka Mahanama, Yasith Jayawardana, Sundararaman Rengarajan, Gavindya Jayawardena, Leanne Chukoskie, Joseph Snider, and Sampath Jayarathna

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D-Lib Magazine Pioneered Web-Based Scholarly Communication, Michael L. Nelson and Herbert Van de Sompel

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Visual Descriptor Extraction From Patent Figure Captions: A Case Study of Data Efficiency Between BiLSTM and Transformer, Xin Wei, Jian Wu, Kehinde Ajayi, and Diane Oyen

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Scholarly Big Data Quality Assessment: A Case Study of Document Linking and Conflation with S2ORC, Jian Wu, Ryan Hiltabrand, Dominik Soós, and C. Lee Giles

Submissions from 2021

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fMRI Feature Extraction Model for ADHD Classification Using Convolutional Neural Network, Senuri De Silva, Sanuwani Udara Dayarathna, Gangani Ariyarathne, Dulani Meedeniya, and Sampath Jayarathna

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Automated Filtering of Eye Movements Using Dynamic AOI in Multiple Granularity Levels, Gavindya Jayawardena and Sampath Jayarathna

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Large Scale Subject Category Classification of Scholarly Papers With Deep Attentive Neural Networks, Bharath Kandimalla, Shaurya Rohatgi, Jian Wu, and C. Lee Giles

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Extraction and Evaluation of Statistical Information from Social and Behavioral Science Papers, Sree Sai Teja Lanka, Sarah Rajtmajer, Jian Wu, and C. Lee Giles

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Ranked List Fusion and Re-Ranking With Pre-Trained Transformers for ARQMath Lab, Shaurya Rohatgi, Jian Wu, and C. Lee Giles

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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MementoMap: A Web Archive Profiling Framework for Efficient Memento Routing, Sawood Alam

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A Framework for Verifying the Fixity of Archived Web Resources, Mohamed Aturban

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SaIL: Saliency-Driven Injection of ARIA Landmarks, Ali Selman Aydin, Shirin Feiz, Vikas Ashok, and IV Ramakrishnan

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Towards Making Videos Accessible for Low Vision Screen Magnifier Users, Ali Selman Aydin, Shirin Feiz, Vikas Ashok, and IV Ramakrishnan

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A Saliency-Driven Video Magnifier For People With Low Vision, Ali Selman Aydin, Shirin Feiz, IV Ramakrishnan, and Vikas Ashok

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A Heuristic Baseline Method for Metadata Extraction from Scanned Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Muntabir H. Choudhury, Jian Wu, William A. Ingam, and Edward A. Fox

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Streaming Analytics and Workflow Automation for DFS, Yasith Jayawardana and Sampath Jayarathna

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MementoEmbed and Raintale for Web Archive Storytelling, Shawn M. Jones, Martin Klein, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson

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SHARI- An Integration of Tools to Visualize the Story of the Day, Shawn M. Jones, Alexander C. Nwala, Martin Klein, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson

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Rotate-and-Press: A Non-Visual Alternative to Point-and-Click, Hae-Na Lee, Vikas Ashok, and I. V. Ramakrishnan

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Repurposing Visual Input Modalities for Blind Users: A Case Study of Word Processors, Hae-Na Lee, Vikas Ashok, and I.V. Ramakrishnan

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TMVis: Visualizing Webpage Changes Over Time, Abigail Mabe, Dhruv Patel, Maheedhar Gunnam, Surbhi Shankar, Mat Kelly, Sawood Alam, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle

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Bootstrapping Web Archive Collections From Micro-Collections in Social Media, Alexander C. Nwala

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Extreme Ultraviolet Quasar Colours from GALEX Observations of the SDSS DR14Q Catalogue, Daniel E. Vanden Berk, Sarah C. Wesolowski, Mary J. Yeckley, Joseph M. Marcinik, Jean M. Quashnock, Lawrence M. Machia, and Jian Wu

Submissions from 2019

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Impact of HTTP Cookie Violations in Web Archives, Sawood Alam, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson

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MementoMap: An Archive Profile Dissemination Framework, Sawood Alam, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson

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EEG-Based Processing and Classification Methodologies for Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Review, Gunavaran Brihadiswaran, Dilantha Haputhanthri, Sahan Gunathilaka, Dulani Meedeniya, and Sampath Jayarathna

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A Survey of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Identification Using Psychophysiological Data, S. De Silva, S. Dayarathna, G. Ariyarathne, D. Meedeniya, and Sampath Jayarathna

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Electroencephalogram (EEG) For Delineating Objective Measure of Autism Spectrum Disorder, Sampath Jayarathna, Yasith Jayawardana, Mark Jaime, and Sashi Thapaliya

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Aggregating Private and Public Web Archives Using the Mementity Framework, Matthew R. Kelly

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Predicting ADHD Using Eye Gaze Metrics Indexing Working Memory Capacity, Anne M.P. Michalek, Gavindya Jayawardena, and Sampath Jayarathna

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Web Archives at the Nexus of Good Fakes and Flawed Originals, Michael L. Nelson

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Sec-Lib: Protecting Scholarly Digital Libraries From Infected Papers Using Active Machine Learning Framework, Nir Nissim, Aviad Cohen, Jian Wu, Andrea Lanzi, Lior Rokach, Yuval Elovici, and Lee Giles

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A Link Relation to Convey a Preferred URI For Referencing, H. Van de Sompel, Michael Nelson, G. Bilder, J. Kunze, and S. Warner

Submissions from 2018

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A Survey of Archival Replay Banners, Sawood Alam, Mat Kelly, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson

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Unobtrusive and Extensible Archival Replay Banners Using Custom Elements, Sawood Alam, Mat Kelly, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson

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It is Hard to Compute Fixity on Archived Web Pages, Mohamed Aturban, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle

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Swimming in a Sea of JavaScript or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love High-Fidelity Replay, John A. Berlin, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle

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205.3 The Many Shapes of Archive-It, Shawn Jones, Michael L. Nelson, Alexander Nwala, and Michele C. Weigle

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Client-Assisted Memento Aggregation Using The Prefer Header, Mat Kelly, Sawood Alam, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle

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Dynamic Control of Particle Separation in Deterministic Lateral Displacement Separator with Viscoelastic Fluids, Yuke Li, Hongna Zhang, Yongyao Li, Xiaobin Li, Jian Wu, Shizhi Qian, and Fengchen Li

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Why We Need Multiple Web Archives: The Case of blog.reidreport.com, Michael L. Nelson

Submissions from 2017

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Avoiding Zombies in Archival Replay Using ServiceWorker, Sawood Alam, Mat Kelly, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson

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Impact of URI Canonicalization on Memento Count, Mat Kelly, Lulwah M. Alkwai, Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle, and Herbert Van De Sompel

Submissions from 2016

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Leveraging Heritrix and the Wayback Machine on a Corporate Intranet: A Case Study on Improving Corporate Archives, Justin F. Brunelle, Krista Ferrante, Eliot Wilczek, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson

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Mementos in the Raw, Shawn M. Jones, Herbert Van de Sompel, and Michael L. Nelson

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Mementos in the Raw, Take Two, Herbert Van de Sompel, Michael L. Nelson, Lyudmila Balakireva, Martin Klein, Shawn M. Jones, and Harihar Shankar

Submissions from 2015

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Characteristics of Social Media Stories, Yasmin AINoamany, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson

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Profiling Web Archives for Efficient Memento Query Routing, Sawood Alam, Michael L. Nelson, Herbert Van de Sompel, Lyudmila L. Balakireva, Harihar Shankar, and David S. H. Rosenthal

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Reminiscing About 15 Years of Interoperability Efforts, Herbert Van de Sompel and Michael L. Nelson

Submissions from 2014

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Moved But Not Gone: An Evaluation of Real-Time Methods for Discovering Replacement Web Pages, Martin Klein and Michael L. Nelson

Submissions from 2013

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A Method for Identifying Personalized Representations in Web Archives, Mat Kelly, Justin F. Brunelle, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson

WARCreate and WAIL: WARC, Wayback, and Heritrix Made Easy, Mat Kelly, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle

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A Technical Framework for Resource Synchronization, Martin Klein, Robert Sanderson, Herbert Van de Sompel, Simeon Warner, Bernhard Haslhofer, Carl Lagoze, and Michael L. Nelson

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Game Walkthroughs as a Metaphor for Web Preservation, Michael L. Nelson

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Thoughts on Referencing, Linking, Reference Rot, Herbert Van de Sompel, Martin Klein, Robert Sanderson, and Michael Nelson

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HTTP Framework for Time-Based Access to Resource States - Memento, Herbert Van de Sompel, Michael L. Nelson, and Robert Sanderson

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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An Extensible Framework for Creating Personal Archives of Web Resources Requiring Authentication, Matthew Ryan Kelly

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WARCreate: Create Wayback-Consumable WARC Files From Any Webpage, Mat Kelly and Michele C. Weigle

WARCreate - Create Wayback-Consumable WARC Files From Any Webpage, Mat Kelly, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson

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A Perspective on Resource Synchronization, Herbert Van de Sompel, Robert Sanderson, Martin Klein, Michael L. Nelson, Bernhard Haslhofer, Simeon Warner, and Carl Lagoze

Submissions from 2009

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Multicast Encryption Infrastructure for Security in Sensor Networks, Richard R. Brooks, Brijesh Pillai, Matthew Pirretti, and Michele C. Weigle

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Correlation of Music Charts and Search Engine Rankings, Martin Klein, Olena Hunsicker, and Michael Nelson

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Everyone is a Curator: Human-Assisted Preservation for ORE Aggregations, Frank McCown, Michael L. Nelson, and Herbert Van de Sompel

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Object Reuse and Exchange, Michael L. Nelson, Carl Lagoze, Herbert Van de Sompel, Pete Johnston, Robert Sanderson, Simeon Warner, Jürgen Sieck (Ed.), and Michael A. Herzog (Ed.)

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Dynamic Adaptation of Joint Transmission Power and Contention Window in VANET, Danda B. Rawat, Gongjun Yan, Dimitrie C. Popescu, Michele C. Weigle, and Stephan Olariu

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Adding eScience Assets to the Data Web, Herbert H. Van de Sompel, Carl Lagoze, Michael L. Nelson, Simeon Warner, Robert Sanderson, and Pete Johnston

Submissions from 2008

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Creating Preservation-Ready Web Resources, Joan A. Smith and Michael L. Nelson

Submissions from 2007

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Optimal Layout of Multicast Groups Using Network Embedded Multicast Security in Ad Hoc Sensor Networks, Richard R. Brooks, Brijesh Pillai, Michele C. Weigle, and Matthew Pirretti

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How Much Preservation Do I Get if I Do Absolutely Nothing? Using the Web Infrastructure for Digital Preservation, Martin Klein, Frank McCown, Joan A. Smith, and Michael Nelson

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Brass: A Queueing Manager for Warrick, Frank McCown, Amine Benjelloun, and Michael L. Nelson

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CRATE: A Simple Model for Self-Describing Web Resources, Joan A. Smith and Michael L. Nelson

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Providing VANET Security Through Active Position Detection, Gongjun Yan, Gyanesh Choudhary, Michele C. Weigle, and Stephan Olariu

Submissions from 2006

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FeDCOR: An Institutional CORDRA Registry, Giridhar Manepalli, Henry Jerez, and Michael L. Nelson

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Observed Web Robot Behavior on Decaying Web Subsites, Joan A. Smith, Frank McCown, and Michael L. Nelson

Submissions from 2005

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Lessons Learned with Arc, an OAI-PMH Service Provider, Xiaoming Liu, Kurt Maly, and Michael L. Nelson

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Final Report for the Development of the NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS), Michael L. Nelson

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Archive Ingest and Handling Test, Michael L. Nelson, Johan Bollen, Giridhar Manepalli, and Rabia Haq

Submissions from 2004

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Metadata and Buckets in the Smart Object, Dumb Archive (SODA) Model, Michael L. Nelson, Kurt Maly, Delwin R. Croom Jr., and Steven W. Robbins

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Resource Harvesting Within the OAI-PMH Framework, Herbert Van de Sompel, Michael L. Nelson, Carl Lagoze, and Simeon Warner

Submissions from 2003

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Report on the Third ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Michael L. Nelson

Submissions from 2002

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The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, Carl Lagoze, Herbert Van de Sompel, Michael Nelson, and Simeon Warner

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A Scalable Architecture for Harvest-Based Digital Libraries, Xiaoming Liu, Tim Brody, Stevan Harnard, Les Carr, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair, and Michael L. Nelson

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Federated Searching Interface Techniques for Heterogeneous OAI Repositories, Xiaoming Liu, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair, Qiaoling Hong, Michael L. Nelson, Frances Knudson, and Irma Holtkamp

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Object Persistence and Availability in Digital Libraries, Michael L. Nelson and B. Danette Allen

Submissions from 2001

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Arc - An OAI Service Provider for Digital Library Federation, Xiaoming Liu, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair, and Michael L. Nelson

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Buckets: Smart Objects for Digital Libraries, Michael L. Nelson

A Survey of Complex Object Technologies for Digital Libraries, Michael L. Nelson, Brad Argue, Miles Efron, Shelia Denn, and Maria Cristina Pattuelli

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Smart Objects and Open Archives, Michael L. Nelson and Kurt Maly