Mat Kelly
@machawk1.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Drexel CCI
WS-DL & ODU CS alum
Creator of #webarchiving software: WARCreate WAIL Mink ipwb
WS-DL & ODU CS alum
Creator of #webarchiving software: WARCreate WAIL Mink ipwb
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Mat Kelly
@machawk1.bsky.social
· Sep 15
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
Did you miss it? See the papers and soon slides and recorded video:
🔗 wadlworkshop.github.io
Photo credit: Tarannum Zaki
Reposted by Mat Kelly
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...
@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...
2025-11-12: 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT 2025) Trip Report
The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.
ws-dl.blogspot.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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...
@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...
Reposted by Mat Kelly
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...
Tarannum Zaki of @webscidl.bsky.social explores and classifies the different UIs.
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...
2025-10-26: Exploring the Different Generations of Twitter/X's Tweet UI
The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.
ws-dl.blogspot.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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...
Tarannum Zaki of @webscidl.bsky.social explores and classifies the different UIs.
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...
Reposted by Mat Kelly
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]
[Short thread]
Data Visualizations as Propaganda: Tracing Lineages, Provenance, and Political Framings in Online Anti-Immigrant Discourse | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Along with other visual content, data visualizations are increasingly used within
online discourse, including political communication. Though often considered to be
''objective'', data visualizations ...
dl.acm.org
October 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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]
[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)
* Proceedings: ualberta.scholaris.ca/items/02da5c...
* Recordings: wadlworkshop.github.io/2025/content... (@ Internet Archive & YT)
Proceedings of the Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) Workshop 2025
ualberta.scholaris.ca
October 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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)
* Proceedings: ualberta.scholaris.ca/items/02da5c...
* Recordings: wadlworkshop.github.io/2025/content... (@ Internet Archive & YT)
Reposted by Mat Kelly
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
learn more about me here: yuxiwu.com
yuxi wu, phd
yuxiwu.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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
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
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
October 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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
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
Reposted by Mat Kelly
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.
digipres.club
Hometown is adapted from Mastodon, a decentralized social network with no ads, no corporate surveillance, and ethical design.
digipres.club
October 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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.
Reposted by Mat Kelly
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.
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.
digipres.club
Hometown is adapted from Mastodon, a decentralized social network with no ads, no corporate surveillance, and ethical design.
digipres.club
October 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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.
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.
September 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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.
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/...
📄 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
September 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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/...
📄 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/...
* 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/...
September 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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/...
* 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
September 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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.
When we account for venue, popularity of authors, etc., there still seems to be a net positive.
September 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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.
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.
September 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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
September 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
@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...
nht.ecs.soton.ac.uk/2025/program...
nht.ecs.soton.ac.uk
September 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
@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...
nht.ecs.soton.ac.uk/2025/program...
Reposted by Mat Kelly
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!
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!
ArchiveWeb.page
ArchiveWeb.page
September 17, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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!
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
September 16, 2025 at 9:45 PM
@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....
dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
September 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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....
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....
Paper 🔗 dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
September 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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....
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.
One tablet had very bad handwriting then tooth marks on the back side.
September 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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.
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.
September 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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."
September 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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
September 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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...
Check out, "The Missing Mechanic: Behavioral Affordances as the Limiting Factor in Generalizing HTML Controls":
doi.org/10.1145/3720...
September 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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...
Check out, "The Missing Mechanic: Behavioral Affordances as the Limiting Factor in Generalizing HTML Controls":
doi.org/10.1145/3720...