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Jul 18, 2025 • Paper Pre-print • IEEE TVCG

VizGenie: Toward Self-Refining, Domain-Aware Workflows for Next-Generation Scientific Visualization

By Ayan Biswas, Terece L. Turton, Nishath Rajiv Ranasinghe, Shawn Jones, Bradley Love, William Jones, Aric Hagberg, Han-Wei Shen, Nathan DeBardeleben, and Earl Lawrence

We present VizGenie, a self-improving, agentic framework that advances scientific visualization through large language model (LLM) by orchestrating of a...
May 8, 2025 • Conference Paper • DocEng 2025

Lost in OCR Translation? Vision-Based Approaches to Robust Document Retrieval

By Alexander Most, Joseph Winjum, Ayan Biswas, Shawn M. Jones, Nishath Rajiv Ranasinghe, Dan O'Malley, and Manish Bhattarai

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a popular technique for enhancing the reliability and utility of Large Language Models (LLMs) by groundi...
May 3, 2025 • Conference Paper • AISD 2025

LLM-Assisted Translation of Legacy FORTRAN Codes to C++: A Cross-Platform Study

By Nishath Rajiv Ranasinghe, Shawn M. Jones, Michal Kucer, Ayan Biswas, Daniel O’Malley, Alexander Most, Selma Liliane Wanna, and Ajay Sreekumar

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being leveraged for generating andtranslating scientific computer codes by both domain-experts and non-dom...
Feb 25, 2025 • Poster • CODA 2025

Metadata Tracking and Analysis of LLM-Based Source-to-Source Code Translation

By Benjamin Knobloch, Christine Sweeney, Ayan Biswas, and Shawn M. Jones

Modern software development education and tool chains favor current programming languages. Many important programs still exist in older languages, such ...
Sep 23, 2024 • Conference Paper • IEEE HPEC 2024

Enhancing Code Translation in Language Models with Few-Shot Learning via Retrieval-Augmented Generation

By Manish Bhattarai, Javier E. Santos, Shawn M. Jones, Ayan Biswas, Boian Alexandrov, and Daniel O'Malley

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has significantly advanced the field of code translation, enabling automated translation between programming ...
Nov 7, 2023 • Journal Article • Nature Scientific Data

DeepPatent2: A Large-Scale Benchmarking Corpus for Technical Drawing Understanding

By Kehinde Ajayi, Xin Wei, Martin Gryder, Winston Shields, Jian Wu, Shawn M. Jones, Michal Kucer, and Diane Oyen

Recent advances in computer vision (CV) and natural language processing have been driven by exploiting big data on practical applications. However, thes...
Sep 26, 2023 • Conference Paper • TPDL 2023

Synthesizing Web Archive Collections Into Big Data: Lessons From Mining Data From Web Archives

By Shawn M. Jones, Himarsha Jayanetti, Martin Klein, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson

Web archives are sources of big data. When presenting human visitors with archived web pages, or mementos, web archives often apply user interface augme...
Jul 3, 2023 • Journal Article • ACM TWEB

Summarizing Web Archive Corpora Via Social Media Storytelling By Automatically Selecting and Visualizing Exemplars

By Shawn M. Jones, Martin Klein, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson

People often create themed collections to make sense of an ever-increasing number of archived web pages. Some of these collections contain hundreds of t...
Jun 26, 2023 • Poster • ACM/IEEE JCDL 2023

Discovering Image Usage Online: A Case Study With "Flatten the Curve"

By Shawn M. Jones and Diane Oyen

Understanding the spread of images across the web helps us understand the reuse of scientific visualizations and their relationship with the public. The...

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Headline	Audience	Type	Date
VizGenie: Toward Self-Refining, Domain-Aware Workflows for Next-Generation Scientific Visualization	IEEE TVCG	Paper Pre-print	Jul 18, 2025
Lost in OCR Translation? Vision-Based Approaches to Robust Document Retrieval	DocEng 2025	Conference Paper	May 8, 2025
LLM-Assisted Translation of Legacy FORTRAN Codes to C++: A Cross-Platform Study	AISD 2025	Conference Paper	May 3, 2025
Metadata Tracking and Analysis of LLM-Based Source-to-Source Code Translation	CODA 2025	Poster	Feb 25, 2025
Enhancing Code Translation in Language Models with Few-Shot Learning via Retrieval-Augmented Generation	IEEE HPEC 2024	Conference Paper	Sep 23, 2024
DeepPatent2: A Large-Scale Benchmarking Corpus for Technical Drawing Understanding	Nature Scientific Data	Journal Article	Nov 7, 2023
Synthesizing Web Archive Collections Into Big Data: Lessons From Mining Data From Web Archives	TPDL 2023	Conference Paper	Sep 26, 2023
Summarizing Web Archive Corpora Via Social Media Storytelling By Automatically Selecting and Visualizing Exemplars	ACM TWEB	Journal Article	Jul 3, 2023
Discovering Image Usage Online: A Case Study With "Flatten the Curve"	ACM/IEEE JCDL 2023	Poster	Jun 26, 2023
Abstract Images Have Different Levels of Retrievability Per Reverse Image Search Engine	DIRA 2022	Presentation	Oct 24, 2022
Abstract Images Have Different Levels of Retrievability Per Reverse Image Search Engine	DIRA 2022	Conference Paper	Oct 23, 2022
Creating Structure in Web Archives With Collections: Different Concepts From Web Archivists	TPDL 2022	Conference Paper	Sep 20, 2022
Robustifying Links With Zotero	iPres 2022	Conference Paper	Sep 12, 2022
The DSA Toolkit Shines Light Into Dark and Stormy Archives	code{4}lib Journal	Journal Article	May 9, 2022
Dark and Stormy Archives & the National Library of Australia	IIPC TSS	Presentation	Dec 16, 2021
From Researcher to ISTI Postdoctoral Fellow	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Dec 16, 2021
HTML Meta Redirects Considered Harmful for Card Generation	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Nov 19, 2021
The Return of SHARI -- Bringing News and Web Archive Storytelling Together Again	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Nov 3, 2021
How the Internet Archive Helped Me Remember CIKM 2019	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Oct 21, 2021
Hypercane: Toolkit for Summarizing Large Collections of Archived Webpages	SIGWEB Newsletter	Newsletter	Oct 12, 2021
Hypercane: Intelligent Sampling for Web Archive Collections	ACM/IEEE JCDL 2021	Poster	Sep 29, 2021
It's All About The Cards: Sharing on Social Media Encouraged HTML Metadata Growth	ACM/IEEE JCDL 2021	Presentation	Sep 28, 2021
It's All About The Cards: Sharing on Social Media Probably Encouraged HTML Metadata Growth	ACM/IEEE JCDL 2021	Conference Paper	Sep 28, 2021
From Student To Researcher III	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Sep 1, 2021
Improving Collection Understanding For Web Archives With Storytelling	Old Dominion University	Presentation	Aug 26, 2021
Improving Collection Understanding for Web Archives with Storytelling: Shining Light Into Dark and Stormy Archives	Old Dominion University	Publication	Aug 26, 2021
Interoperability for Accessing Versions of Web Resources with the Memento Protocol	The Past Web: Exploring Web Archives	Book Chapter	Jul 1, 2021
Automatically Selecting Striking Images for Social Cards	ACM Web Science 2021	Presentation	Jun 23, 2021
Automatically Selecting Striking Images for Social Cards	ACM Web Science 2021	Conference Paper	Jun 21, 2021
MementoEmbed and Raintale for Web Archive Storytelling	IIPC Web Archiving Conference 2021	Presentation	Jun 16, 2021
Off-Topic Memento Toolkit to identify topical outliers in web archive collections	IIPC Web Archiving Conference 2021	Presentation	Jun 16, 2021
Robustifying Links To Combat Reference Rot	code{4}lib Journal	Journal Article	Feb 10, 2021
The Dark and Stormy Archives Project: Summarizing Web Archives Through Social Media Storytelling	IIPC Blog	Invited Blog Post	Feb 3, 2021
Embedded Tweets From @realDonaldTrump: They Won’t Break, But They Can Be Faked	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Jan 9, 2021
Summarizing Web Archives through Storytelling with the Dark and Stormy Archives Project	CNI Fall 2020	Presentation	Nov 12, 2020
MementoEmbed and Raintale for Web Archive Storytelling	Web Archiving and Digital Libraries 2020	Presentation	Aug 5, 2020
SHARI - An Integration of Tools to Visualize the Story of the Day	Web Archiving and Digital Libraries 2020	Publication	Aug 5, 2020
MementoEmbed and Raintale for Web Archive Storytelling	Web Archiving and Digital Libraries 2020	Presentation	Aug 4, 2020
SHARI -- An Integration of Tools to Visualize the Story of the Day	Web Archiving and Digital Libraries 2020	Presentation	Aug 4, 2020
ACM SIGIR 2020 Non-Trip Report	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Aug 3, 2020
Robustify your links! A working solution to create persistently robust links	IIPC Blog	Invited Blog Post	Jul 29, 2020
Hypercane Part 3: Building Your Own Algorithms	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Jun 17, 2020
Hypercane Part 2: Synthesizing Output For Other Tools	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Jun 10, 2020
Hypercane Part 1: Intelligent Sampling of Web Archive Collections	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Jun 3, 2020
SHARI: StoryGraph Hypercane ArchiveNow Raintale Integration -- Combining WS-DL Tools For Current Events Storytelling	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Apr 1, 2020
The 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Nov 18, 2019
Social Cards Probably Provide For Better Understanding Of Web Archive Collections	ACM CIKM 2019	Presentation	Nov 5, 2019
Social Cards Probably Provide For Better Understanding Of Web Archive Collections	ACM CIKM 2019	Conference Paper	Nov 3, 2019
Continuing Education to Advance Web Archiving (CEDWARC)	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Oct 31, 2019
Storytelling With Web Archives	CEDWARC 2019	Presentation	Oct 28, 2019
Building the Better Crowdsourced Study - Literature on Mechanical Turk	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Aug 14, 2019
Improving Understanding of Web Archive Collections Through Storytelling - PhD Candidacy Exam	Old Dominion University Computer Science Department	Presentation	Aug 7, 2019
Raintale -- A Storytelling Tool For Web Archives	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Jul 11, 2019
Wikis Are Archives: Integrating Memento and Mediawiki	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Jun 5, 2019
In The Battle of the Surrogates: Social Cards Probably Win	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	May 29, 2019
Google+ Is Being Shuttered, Have We Preserved Enough of It?	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Feb 8, 2019
Improving Collection Understanding in Web Archives	TCDL Bulletin	Bulletin	Jan 1, 2019
The Many Shapes of Archive-It	iPres 2018	Conference Paper	Sep 20, 2018
The Off-Topic Memento Toolkit	iPres 2018	Conference Paper	Sep 20, 2018
The Many Shapes of Archive-It	iPres 2018	Presentation	Sep 1, 2018
The Off-Topic Memento Toolkit	iPres 2018	Publication	Sep 1, 2018
A Preview of MementoEmbed: Embeddable Surrogates for Archived Web Pages	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Aug 1, 2018
How well are the National Guideline Clearinghouse and the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse Archived?	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Jul 15, 2018
Extracting Metadata from Archive-It Collections with Archive-It Utilities	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Jul 3, 2018
The Off-Topic Memento Toolkit	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Jul 2, 2018
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) Doctoral Consortium Trip Report	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Jun 8, 2018
Improving Collection Understanding in Web Archives	ACM/IEEE JCDL 2018 DC	Presentation	Jun 1, 2018
Let's Get Visual and Examine Web Page Surrogates	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Apr 24, 2018
Avoiding spoilers: wiki time travel with Sheldon Cooper	International Journal on Digital Libraries	Journal Article	Mar 1, 2018
Dodging the Memory Hole 2017 Trip Report	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Dec 14, 2017
Storify Will Be Gone Soon, So How Do We Preserve The Stories?	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Dec 12, 2017
Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting 2017	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Nov 11, 2017
Where Can We Post Stories Summarizing Web Archive Collections	Dodging the Memory Hole 2017	Presentation	Nov 1, 2017
Where Can We Post Stories Summarizing Web Archive Collections?	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Aug 11, 2017
Web Science 2017 Trip Report	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Jul 6, 2017
Reference Rot	Special Libraries Association New Mexico Chapter	Presentation	Jul 1, 2017
Uniform Access to Raw Mementos	IIPC Web Archiving Conference 2017	Poster	Jun 16, 2017
Discovering Scholars Everywhere They Tread	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Apr 26, 2017
Pushing Boundaries	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Apr 24, 2017
Trusted Timestamping of Mementos	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Apr 20, 2017
Scholarly Context Adrift: Three out of Four URI References Lead to Changed Content	PLOS One	Journal Article	Dec 2, 2016
Fun with Fictional Web Sites and the Internet Archive	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Oct 24, 2016
Memento at the W3C	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Aug 30, 2016
Mementos in the Raw, Take Two	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Aug 15, 2016
Symposium on Saving The Web at the Library of Congress	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Jun 27, 2016
Mementos in the Raw	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Apr 27, 2016
WWW 2016 Trip Report	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Apr 24, 2016
Persistent URIs Must Be Used To Be Persistent	WWW 2016	Poster	Apr 4, 2016
Acquisition of Mementos and Their Content Is More Challenging Than Expected	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Feb 24, 2016
Rules of Acquisition for Mementos and Their Content	arXiv	Technical Report	Feb 19, 2016
Releasing an Open Source Python Project, the Services That Brought py-memento-client to Life	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Sep 8, 2015
From Student To Researcher II	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Sep 1, 2015
Avoiding Spoilers in Fan Wikis of Episodic Fiction	arXiv	Preprint	Jun 20, 2015
Avoiding Spoilers on Mediawiki Fan Sites Using Memento	Old Dominion University	Masters Thesis	May 30, 2015
From Student To Researcher...	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Apr 5, 2015
Avoiding Spoilers On MediaWiki Fan Sites Using Memento	Old Dominion University Computer Science Department	Presentation	Mar 1, 2015
Potential MediaWiki Web Time Travel for Wayback Machine Visitors	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Jul 8, 2014
Bringing Web Time Travel to MediaWiki: An Assessment of the Memento MediaWiki Extension	arXiv	Technical Report	Jun 16, 2014
WikiConference USA 2014 Trip Report	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Jun 2, 2014
Reconstructing the past with MediaWiki	WikiConference USA 2014	Presentation	Jun 1, 2014
Using the Memento MediaWiki Extension to Avoid Spoilers	WikiConference USA 2014	Presentation	Jun 1, 2014
TimeGate Design Options For MediaWiki	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Apr 17, 2014
Yesterday's (Wiki) Page, Today's Image?	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Apr 1, 2014
Avoiding Spoilers with the Memento Mediawiki Extension	WS-DL Blog	Invited Blog Post	Dec 18, 2013
Avoiding Spoilers with Memento	YouTube Viewers	Presentation	Dec 1, 2013
Using the Memento Mediawiki Extension to avoid spoilers	YouTube Viewers	Presentation	Dec 1, 2013
Continuous Integration: Finding Problems Soonest	Defense Acquisition University	Presentation	Jun 1, 2013
A Brief Introduction to Test-Driven Development	Local ACM Chapter of Old Dominion University	Presentation	Apr 1, 2013

Portfolio

VizGenie: Toward Self-Refining, Domain-Aware Workflows for Next-Generation Scientific Visualization

Lost in OCR Translation? Vision-Based Approaches to Robust Document Retrieval

LLM-Assisted Translation of Legacy FORTRAN Codes to C++: A Cross-Platform Study

Metadata Tracking and Analysis of LLM-Based Source-to-Source Code Translation

Enhancing Code Translation in Language Models with Few-Shot Learning via Retrieval-Augmented Generation

DeepPatent2: A Large-Scale Benchmarking Corpus for Technical Drawing Understanding

Synthesizing Web Archive Collections Into Big Data: Lessons From Mining Data From Web Archives

Summarizing Web Archive Corpora Via Social Media Storytelling By Automatically Selecting and Visualizing Exemplars

Discovering Image Usage Online: A Case Study With "Flatten the Curve"