You're invited 📣 The CAIS/ACSI Annual Conference will take place online from June 22-26. See the full program at cais2026.ca Note that no registration is required! The zoom links will be available on the program site.

Proud to report that my PhD student, Chris Rauch, has passed his PhD defense! 🥳🎓 His dissertation introduces ProEthica, which uses LLMs, ontologies, and case-based reasoning to turn ethics precedents into structured support for human judgment. Slides: matkelly.com/presentation...

Excited to share that I passed my PhD proposal defense on April 24, 2026 -- another step closer to finishing my PhD 🎓 Special thanks to my dissertation committee: @weiglemc.bsky.social, @phonedudemln.bsky.social, @acnwala.bsky.social, & Erika Frydenlund for their guidance & support.

I want to take a moment, here, to highlight the very short yet utterly to-the-point blog post by my long time hero, David Rosenthal, in which he explains to his old boss, Eric Schmidt, why he and his ilk are getting booed at college commencements, and why laws […] [Original post on w3c.social]

I've been trying to resolve the cognitive dissonance between "AI-generated summaries are useful" and the backlash that Dr. Fieisler (@cfiesler.bsky.social), myself, and many others felt at the ACM DL briefly making them default over authors' abstracts in December. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/05/2026...

The 2026 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries will take place on October 13–16 in Dallas, Texas, and the call for papers, posters, and more has also been released:

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Alberta, could we maybe unite on separating from winter for the year?

I don't think people fully understand yet just how fragile university-hosted digital resources are after external funding ends (especially if the lead academic retires or moves or is made redundant).

🧵 The web is disappearing 🕳️ From Pew: 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are ☠️ A new study in VANISHING CULTURE gives hope: 16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine. 56% are preserved before they disappear. 📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from Internet Archive: archive.org/details/vani... ⬇️

🚨 The authors found that, by mid-2025, 35% of newly published websites were AI-generated or AI-assisted (up from zero before ChatGPT’s launch). Interesting paper on the impact of AI-generated text on the internet, relying on data from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

Slides from my presentation at @netpreserve.bsky.social Web Archiving Conference (#wac2026) 2026. "A browser-based approach to measuring completeness in archived websites": ualberta.scholaris.ca/workflowitem... #github repo is here: github.com/reyesayala/w...

"Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web" Sawood Alam's (@ibnesayeed.bsky.social, @archive.org, @waybackmachine.bsky.social) #WAC2025 presentation. blog.archive.org/2026/04/23/g...

A longer form discussion about generational loss in web archives. Or, if you prefer, "making copies of copies of copies..." I will give a lightning talk, "The Disintegration Loops", at the Information Stewardship Forum, hosted at the Internet Archive @archive.org ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/03/2026...

Congratulations to my PhD student Gangani Ariyarathne for her #WebSci26 paper. Identifying the Geographic Foci of US Local News: our NLGF model labels US local news articles with salient geo-locations central to their subject matter * arxiv.org/abs/2603.00787 * github.com/wm-newslab/N...

Muchos piensan en la @bne.es y visualizan libros antiguos. Pero les hemos entrevistado para ver otra historia: la nuestra, la de los videojuegos. 🏛️👾 📍 Hoy a las 21:00 estreno de la entrevista para conocer su colección de videojuegos Dónde? Aquí 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D0g...

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

It's been a long time in the making, but here's the new Library Data Lab at Southampton, giving dataset and API access to digitised collections. Currently in beta: all comments welcome. Intro from my colleague Matt: southampton.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page... Service datalab.library.soton.ac.uk

The State of Social Media #Archiving (A New Research Report From the @flickrfdn.bsky.social) www.flickr.org/a-new-resear... #socialmedia #archives #libraries

Hussam Hallak @hussamhallak.bsky.social of @webscidl.bsky.social describes using Google Sheets to do a bulk upload of URLs to the "Save Page Now" service of the Wayback Machine @waybackmachine.bsky.social ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/02/2026...

For this blog post, I summarized @bitarchivist.net, @wilkinson.graphics, and @ilya.webrecorder.net's paper, “High Fidelity Web Archiving of News Sites and New Media with Browsertrix.” @webscidl.bsky.social ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/02/2026...

In "Detecting and reconstructing trustworthy edit histories using web archives", I talk about different markers of edit history on webpages and how web archives can be used to verify or refute them. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/02/2026... @webscidl.bsky.social

Content Development Working Group wins the Celebrating Digital Innovation in Sporting Heritage Award 2025. The IIPC has been archiving websites related to the Olympics since 2010 and the Paralympics since 2012. @netpreserve.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4mmdpm63

I'll be presenting "A Vision for Trustworthy Web Archiving" as part of the Va Tech Center for Digital Research & Scholarship Distinguished Lecture Series. Friday, Jan 30, 2026 10am EST @webscidl.bsky.social It will be on Zoom & registration is free: calendar.lib.vt.edu/event/16230235

🤖 @coar-repositories.bsky.social has announced the new Dealing with AI Bots website that provides a wealth of information on bots & #crawlers impacting the services and operations of open #repositories, including mitigation strategies. See: coar-repositories.org/news-updates...

Travis Reid @treid803.bsky.social @webscidl.bsky.social summarizes Brenda Reyes Ayala's @brendareyesayala.bsky.social 2025 paper: "Towards a better QA process: Automatic detection of quality problems in archived websites using visual comparisons" ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/01/2026...

This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.

My site monitor just reported that the ACM Hypertext 2026 (@acmht.bsky.social) conference web site is live! I enjoyed attending HT'25 in Chicago & hope to submit a paper (due Mar. 27). I've no affiliation as an organizer but someone you know might also want to target this venue. ht.acm.org/ht2026/

It can be tricky to preserve social media. Here is a @flickrfdn.bsky.social report "The State of Social Media Archiving Tools:" docs.google.com/document/d/1...

At Vivaldi we continue to make choices that are different from our competitors. We have chosen to not integrate AI or crypto, but instead we integrate a wealth of other features, based on the wishes of our users. We are a European company with most of the team based in Norway and Iceland, a few […]

El Archivo de la Web Española trabaja desde el año 2009 como una gran cápsula del tiempo que preserva la historia de la sociedad española en la red. Gracias a Olga Suárez por este artículo. www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/reto...

Thrilled to see @ktmac.bsky.social and my paper on robots.txt and infrastructural consent published here!!

#webarchiving at The Library of Congress after 25 years - a look back at some accomplishments! blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/20...

Applications now open for Web Archiving School fellows, instructors, and teaching assistants. Apply here: www.archivingtheblackweb.org/apply/

Gracias al Consejo de Cooperación Bibliotecaria por este artículo que celebra los diez años del Archivo de la Web Española. www.ccbiblio.es/el-archivo-d...

Now presenting our #jcdl2025 paper exploring IPARO, a decentralized web-archival system on IPFS/IPNS that embeds version links into archived content. We evaluate linking policies and storage/lookup/replay tradeoffs. @ipfs.tech Slides: matkelly.com/presentation... Paper: matkelly.com/papers/2025_...

📣 We invite submissions for the 54th annual CAIS/ACSI conference, Information in Repair, exploring maintenance and repair as information work. 🗓 Proposals due January 31, 2026 🌐 Online conference | June 22–26, 2026 🏛 Hosted by the UBC School of Information 🔗 Full CFP: cais2026.ca

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

The FBI is trying to unmask the owner of infamous archiving site Archive.is, according to a subpoena the site posted. No other information given, the site quietly posted the document a few days ago. FBI telling domain registrar to hand over all sorts of ID'ing info www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...

To study Twitter is to study archived Twitter. And if you're replaying archived pages, you need to be familiar with the different generations of UIs. Tarannum Zaki of @webscidl.bsky.social explores and classifies the different UIs. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...

The proceedings & recordings of the 5 presentations at the Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) 2025 Workshop from ACM Hypertext in September 2025 are now live! * Proceedings: ualberta.scholaris.ca/items/02da5c... * Recordings: wadlworkshop.github.io/2025/content... (@ Internet Archive & YT)

Our article "Liberation of LMS-siloed Instructional Data" was just released by the Code4Lib Journal! The work documents our efforts in extracting IMLS-funded bootcamp content from Blackboard for future reuse in library carpentries & for reference by students. 📝 journal.code4lib.org/articles/18462

please reach out with any tenure-track faculty opportunities in information, media, communication, or interdisciplinary computer science departments 🫡 learn more about me here: yuxiwu.com

‼️ ATTENTION ‼️ ⏰ Proposals for #iipcWAC26, "Sustainable #WebArchiving," in Brussels are due in 1 WEEK (15 OCT): netpreserve.org/ga2026/CfP First-time submitters encouraged! Need inspiration? www.youtube.com/@iipc8855/fe... #WebArchives #WebArchiveWednesday #DigitalPreservation #DigitalHumanities

In 1996, Brewster Kahle wrote "Preserving the Internet" for Scientific American. Nearly 30 years later, it’s striking how many of his predictions about digital preservation came true—and how many challenges remain. Let’s compare 1996 vs 2025 🧵

The Internet Archive @archive.org has an exciting slate of events lined up for their 29th anniversary, including hitting 1T archived pages! Check out: blog.archive.org/trillion/ #Wayback1T #WaybackMachine

📣This #WebArchiveWednesday, plan your proposal for #iipcWAC26, “Sustainable #WebArchiving,” at KBR, Royal Library of Belgium! netpreserve.org/ga2026/CfP 🗓️ Deadline for proposals: OCT 15 #webarchives #DigitalPreservation #DigitalHumanities

Los guardados de dominio en el Archivo de la Web Española forman parte fundamental de la estrategia de la #BNE para garantizar la conservación a largo plazo del patrimonio digital español y reflejar así la evolución de nuestra sociedad en el entorno web. www.bne.es/es/coleccion...

La Biblioteca Nacional de España lleva diez años guardando los dominios .es, que este año han superado los 2,8 millones, 700.000 más que en 2024 🌐 Lee la nota completa aquí ➡️ www.bne.es/es/noticias/...