If you're attending the CSCW conference this Fall in Salt Lake City: I am co-organizing a workshop on public scholarship! The application process is very lightweight (just a form, no papers required). Please share with folks interested in this topic! Deadline 8/15. sites.google.com/cornell.edu/...

CSCW Public Scholarship 2026

🎶 Wake up in the morning gotta check that feed Like that study, share that blog, we gotta get up to speed Before we leave, post a vid critiquing the AI stack ‘Cause CSCW researchers, we aint holding ...

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Since it’s #recsys2026 camera-ready season (congrats to all with accepted papers!), re-sharing this thing I put together about making excellent final paper manuscripts: md.ekstrandom.net/blog/2023/08...

Final Paper Checklist

A list of things to check when preparing a paper for publication.

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2026 WS-DL Research Expo Tuesday, June 23, 2pm EDT All are welcome: members, alumni, friends, etc. github.com/oduwsdl/2026... 5 students, 1 from each @webscidl.bsky.social prof, will give a ~15 min summary of their current research. Status updates from profs & alumni too! (zoom link in repo)

We also shot a smol video. As a treat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Gt...

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We just released the first stable version of iroh, v1.0! Read about it: www.iroh.computer/blog/v1 We're super proud of where we landed with iroh's 1.0. Since version 0.35 it feels like we've entirely replaced the "engine underneath". Are you a fellow key-dialer? Come tell us how you use iroh!

Iroh 1.0 - Dial Keys, not IPs

Iroh 1.0 is out. Now is the time to build.

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Hooded my first two PhD students at the final Drexel CCI Commencement. Congratulations to (the very soon to be) Drs. Choi and Rauch!

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...

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...

2026-05-28: If LLMs can write abstracts, what's our job? The Uncanny Valley and Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect in the ACM Digital Library

The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.

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Recently, Sawood (ibnesayeed.bsky.social) & I uncovered a tricky web archiving replay problem. An API call several layers of JS deep had superfluous browser size args that would intermittently load the wrong JSON for the archived HTML ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/05/2026... (all images/links are SFW)

2026-05-26: URL Arguments in API Calls Can Cause Intermittent Temporal Violations While Replaying Archived Web Pages

The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.

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ABC killed fivethirtyeight.com, pulling down thousands of stories and dashboards. I can bring them back, but I can offer you https://fivethirtyeightindex.com, my new index of everything captured by archive.org.

Proud to report that my PhD student, Hyung Wook Choi, has passed her PhD defense! 🥳🎓 Her dissertation asks: when meanings drift, what do records preserve? It gives a framework for detecting fuzzy semantic change and making it traceable, cited, and reusable. Slides: matkelly.com/presentation...

ArXiv is going to ban researchers for a year if they are caught submitting AI slop. ArXiv told us it's a one strike rule: do it once, you're out. www.404media.co/new-arxiv-ru...

ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop

The change comes as arXiv and others struggle to manage an influx of AI-generated materials masquerading as rigorous science.

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The Internet is disappearing before our very eyes and it’s why we should all support that absolutely critical work of @archive.org

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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ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2026 Click to switch › About the Event The ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) is a premier international forum focused…

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Today is my 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑟𝑦 — seven years ago today I defended my PhD dissertation!

Just shared a recap of teaching INFO624 at Drexel this winter. A fast-moving quarter exploring how AI is changing search plus some great student projects and takeaways. log.lab.matkelly.com/info624-2026

Append the LM to the IR

Report on INFO624 Intelligent Search and Language Models at Drexel CCI in Winter 2026 with course topics, student projects, and lessons learned.

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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...

2026-02-12: How to archive web pages in bulk using the Internet Archive Google Sheets service

The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.

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If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …

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

Center for Digital Research & Scholarship Distinguished Lecture Series

A Vision for Trustworthy Web Archiving A PRESENTATION BY Dr. Michael L. Nelson Online Event via Zoom Abstract: Link rot and content drift have always been a part of the web...

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New blog post: Re-launching COPTR!

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...

2026-01-22: Paper Summary: "Towards a better QA process: Automatic detection of quality problems in archived websites using visual comparisons"

The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.

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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/

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

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#OutNow in #iCS “Infrastructural consent” is when consent becomes a protocol. This article shows how robots.txt flattens ethical debate into technical parameters, and why the AI scraping “consent crisis” exposes problems in web architecture. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Apply for @atbw.bsky.social's Web Archiving School www.archivingtheblackweb.org/apply/

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

Web Archiving at the Library After 25 Years | The Signal

This post is co-written by Abbie Grotke, Amanda Lehman, and Melissa Wertheimer of the Web Archiving Section to close our 25th-anniversary celebration year with some highlights of the program.

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Maybe just a matter of being one of XKCD's Lucky 10,000, but TIL about the (Java-based) TimeStitch Memento Aggregator from LANL: github.com/lanl/TimeSti... #webarchiving #memento @mementoweb.bsky.social #mementoweb

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.