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_...

More good news for the new year! We'll be hosting an official re-launch event for the COPTR tool discovery wiki! Please come along if you can... https://www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetail/579/-/dpclinic-january-relaunching-coptr

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

TIL about github.com/midwork-find..., a DuckDB ext. to query web archive CDX APIs directly from SQL. i.e., query Wayback Machine & Common Crawl CDX APIs like they were database tables! #webarchiving @archive.org @waybackmachine.bsky.social h/t @atomotic.com via @inkdroid.org(merveilles.town/@ink)

My PhD student Chris Rauch presented OntExtract @ #JCDL2025! Web-based NLP w/ PROV-O provenance—comparing manual vs LLM pipelines & track semantic change. Demo: ontextract.ontorealm.net Slides: matkelly.com/presentations/2025_jcdl_ontextract.pdf Paper: matkelly.com/papers/2025_jcdl_ontextract.pdf

The work described in this article was supported by IMLS 🫶 #webarchiving

We also published a blog post on Information Matters, which provides a summary of our process for creating a dataset of 279 archived web ads and the problems we identified while archiving and replaying these ads. (2/9) #WebArchiveWednesday @webscidl.bsky.social informationmatters.org/2025/12/prob...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services, the federal agency that provides funding for America's libraries, has announced it is reinstating all grants it had previously terminated, including those to libraries and library organizations across the U.S. Read more: https://bit.ly/4496W4V

Trip report for the 2025 ACM Hypertext Conference #HT2025 @acmht.bsky.social @webscidl.bsky.social PhD students Tarannum Zaki, Rochana Obadage, & Dominik Soos and alumni @machawk1.bsky.social & @ibnesayeed.bsky.social attended in September, 2025. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/11/2025...

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...

Really excited to share this new paper on "Data Visualizations as Propaganda", co-led by PhD students Priya Dhawka and Nina Lutz, which just won a Best Paper award at the CSCW conference: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... [Short thread]

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)

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

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

Folks in digital preservation looking for a chill place to hang out off here - I run a digipres mastodon instance, digipres.club. I try to keep it running well and low stress. All are welcome.

Highly recommend joining digipres.club! Misty and the moderators that help her do a great job of running a chill and interesting place free from all the annoying ads and algorithms of the commercial social media options.

That's a wrap on ACM Hypertext 2025! #ACMHT2025 #HT2025 #HT25 Next year's Hypertext 2026 will be in London at School of Advanced Study at University of London and the British Library. #HT2026 September 8-11, 2026 The theme will be Hypertext as Method.

At #ACMHT2025 day 4, Yavuz Selim Kartal (from @gesis.org) discusses supplementing social media posts with AI-generated summaries, which are perceived as most understandable form of enrichment as compared to metadata enrichment or pull quotes. @acmht.bsky.social #HT2025 📄 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

At Day 4 of #ACMHT2025, Karlijn Dinnissen describes the role of fairness & diversity in user choices and perception of music playlists. * What do end users think makes a fair MusicRec sys? * How does that impact their choices? * How should they be informed? #HT2025 📄 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Ágnes Horvát highlights in her @acmht.bsky.social keynote that the frequency of certain words in PubMed abstracts has drastically increased due to authors massaging their texts with LLMs. #HT2025 #ACMHT2025

At the #HT2025 Day 3 keynote, Ágnes Horvát asks, "How is science effectively promoted in online social spaces? Does self-publicity online lead to a tangible increase in citations?" When we account for venue, popularity of authors, etc., there still seems to be a net positive.

In his #nht25 prez @ #HT25, David Millard (@hoosfoos.bsky.social) ids the parallels between hypertext & those that will come as a result of gen AI. Who controls meaning? What are the boundaries of text? We typically think of AI as an assistant, the human being's still the wordsmith.

@eastgate.bsky.social describes resurrecting Information Cities at #NHT25 as a narrative, a journey toward understanding, a central theme in open world games like Elder Scrolls or Cyberpunk 2077 #ACMHT2025 #HT2025 @acmht.bsky.social

@drchargood.bsky.social kicks off Hypertext '25 (@acmht.bsky.social) Day 3 w/ the Narrative & Hypertext Workshop #NHT25, a venue for both those new to HT and established projects. Scheduled are 3 paper presentations, a panel, and a debate. #ACMHT2025 nht.ecs.soton.ac.uk/2025/program...

Our browser extension, ArchiveWeb.page has recently surpassed 20,000 users on the Chrome Web store: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/webre... That's 20k+ users creating their own high-fidelity, interactive web archives, right in their own browsers! If you use ArchiveWeb.page, leave us a review!

@tarannum44.bsky.social from @webscidl.bsky.social is up next at #ACMHT2025 describing web archives usage for verifying attribution of Twitter screenshots with a compelling use case of one's love for pineapple pizza. 🍍🍕 @phonedudemln.bsky.social

Dominik Soós from @webscidl.bsky.social asks "Can LLMs Beat Humans on Discerning Human-written and LLM-generated Science News?" Their contribs inc. benchmarks & findings, new dataset w/ 362 article triplets, & a novel method to improve perf on open-weight LLMs #ACMHT2025 dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

In his #ACMHT2025 talk, Mariusz Pisarski asks the questions about Google's AI integration into their search UI stating that research shows that users largely don't click on results at all, but instead rely on the provided summaries. Paper 🔗 dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

At @human-ht.bsky.social at #ACMHT2025: @eastgate.bsky.social describes historical compression: We want to compress messages, because every bit is expensive. When your bits are inscribed in stone, they are really expensive. One tablet had very bad handwriting then tooth marks on the back side.

Words per pope: Andrezej Adamski discusses the inter-pope sentiment of popes in time at the HUMAN workshop (@human-ht.bsky.social ) at #ACMHT2025. Takeaway: phrases track the media environment of each era.

How would hypertext help for census date resolution? Cathy Marshall discusses in her @human-ht.bsky.social keynote at #ACMHT2025, "It's important to be able to back out records when Ruth isn't Paul's bio mother & that all her records should be deprecated. The cost for link-making is high and noisy."

At the HUMAN workshop ( @human-ht.bsky.social ) at Day 2 of ACM Hypertext, Cathy Marshall gives the keynote with a story about John Tukey looking data at large while she was close reading the data (i.e., observing microwaved Ivory soap) #ACMHT2025

Enjoyed Alexander Petros proposing to bake in some features of HTMX into the HTML spec, namely to extend it to support more hypermedia controls. #ACMHT2025 Check out, "The Missing Mechanic: Behavioral Affordances as the Limiting Factor in Generalizing HTML Controls": doi.org/10.1145/3720...

Another Web Archiving & Digital Libraries (WADL) workshop is in the books as we completed the 2025 iteration at ACM Hypertext 2025! #ACMHT2025 Did you miss it? See the papers and soon slides and recorded video: 🔗 wadlworkshop.github.io Photo credit: Tarannum Zaki

At ACM Hypertext 2025, Sarah Abowitz (@lepidopterane.bsky.social) describes her observation & user studies for translation & aids for students learning Greek. Cognitive load of opening aids less preferred to opening in same window: hoverables do not overwhelm or disrupt the reading plan #ACMHT2025

PHL ⮕ ORD ✈️ for ACM Hypertext and the Web Archiving & Digital Libraries (WADL 2025) workshop. #webarchiving wadlworkshop.github.io/2025

I've had a monitor on the NEH R&D grant CfP web page at www.neh.gov/grants/prese... , which was canceled then updated but never accepted new submissions amidst the recent turmoil. This included an update from "preservation and access" to "collection and infrastructure" and now an HTTP 403.

This blog post came up recently in a student meeting while discussing real web sites about fake entities. In 2016, Shawn Jones @shawnmjones.org‬ @webscidl.bsky.social looked at link rot & content drift in real web sites mentioned in fictional TV shows & movies. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2016/10/2016...

Hi Seattle! Come see my talk on the history of human-computer interaction. I'll explain U.S. gov funding of science has led to many of the innovations that power our economy & shape our lives — and call out the short-sightedness & hypocrisy of efforts to defund science in this field & so many others

📢🚨🔔 JCDL 2025 has extended the deadlines CFPs: All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time: - Full/Short Paper Submission Deadline: September 12, 2025 - Author Notification: October 31, 2025 - Camera-Ready Deadline: November 14, 2025 2025.jcdl.org/registration/.

JCDL 2025 – we extended the Full/Short Paper Submission Deadline to September 12, 2025. 👉 2025.jcdl.org #JCDL2025 #DigitalLibraries

@webscidl.bsky.social's own Lesley Frew! big congrats to @weiglemc.bsky.social for recruiting her. www.odu.edu/article/odu-...

A nice comprehensive review of _Averting the Digital Dark Age_ in the _Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies_. elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol12/i...

We’re hiring! Join AIP’s research team as an Archives Fellow or Intern to help highlight women’s contributions to the physical sciences. Great part time opportunities for grad students. Apply here: - Fellow: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau... - Intern: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

Reminder: this presentation is tomorrow (Wednesday), July 16 @ 11am EDT. @webscidl.bsky.social

Final call for the Web Archiving & Digital Libraries (WADL) Workshop @ ACM Hypertext, submissions due July 14. Hybrid event! Extended workshops submissions invited for special issue International Journal on Digital Libraries. Please consider submitting! wadlworkshop.github.io/2025/?extended

CfP #BEYOND2025 WS@ #RecSys2025 Sep26|Prague beyondrecsys.github.io Beyond algorithms: Reclaiming interdisciplinary roots of #RecSys CfP: Papers+case studies, challenging paradigms+ opening new pathways. 🗣️Special: #ProvocativePerspectives: Bold ideas + critiques to spark discussion! Deadline:Aug7

It's an open source web search engine written in Rust... stract.com - development seems like it has stalled or gone stealth, but I seem to be able to get it to read my WARC files by hacking on the parser

Today I gave an invited talk at the Archive-It Partner Meeting in Philly titled, "What You See No One Saw" describing an ongoing investigation for archiving personalized representations on the web. The presentation is based on our IMLS project w/ @webscidl.bsky.social Slides: matkelly.com/ait2025

I work in the best university in the world, less than 3 hours from my rural hometown, yet superstar students travel here from all over the world… if we keep treating them badly, will centers of excellence move elsewhere? "If my kids excel, will they move away?" jeffreybigham.com/blog/2025/wh...