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Mat Kelly

@machawk1.bsky.social
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Asst Prof - Information Science Drexel Univiversity WS-DL & ODU CS alum web archiving • personalization • privacy • semantics • resilience • identification

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Ingo Frommholz @frommholz.org · 25/09/2026
Information Retrieval folk, the #ECIR2027 short paper abstract submission deadline is approaching – 5 October 2026. Full papers a week later. www.ecir2027.co.uk/call-for-sho... @ecir2027.bsky.social
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Call for Short Papers
Short papers differ from full papers in that they present innovative new works, but may be narrower in scope or applications. Submissions may include preliminary ideas, but still should provide empirical or theoretical validation. Papers that stimulate discussion are particularly encouraged.
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Emily Maemura @emae.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
First, super excited for this article which is part of the “roundtable” section on provenance in the special issue on AI & Archives. doi.org/10.1017/cfc....
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Lessons from archival provenance: Reframing data creator relationships in AI | Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society | Cambridge Core
Lessons from archival provenance: Reframing data creator relationships in AI - Volume 2
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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We are hiring for several positions in the UW Information School, including a tenure-track position in Library and Information Science. Please share with anyone interested in these areas! Deadline October 30. Job: apply.interfolio.com/192127
Screenshot of job ad that reads: "The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to our Library and Information Science (LIS) research, with areas of relevance including, but not limited to:

Libraries - Academic, Digital, or Public 

Librarianship - Leadership, Innovation, or Education  

Information Technology - Ethics, Public Interest, and Justice-Oriented Approaches  

Data - Archives, Public / Open, and Humanistic or Scientific Applications

Artificial Intelligence - Public Interest, Library or Cultural Heritage-Centered, Open-Source Applications in Information Institutions  "
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infoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
IMLS Grant Awarded on Identifying and Preserving Web Resources Referenced in Archived U.S. Local and National Television News (via @webscidl.bsky.social) ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/08/2026... #funding #mediapreservation #digipres #media #tvnews #video @archive.org
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Mat Kelly @machawk1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The WADL deadline has been extended to September 23. Please share with those potentially interested. wadlworkshop.github.io
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
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/...
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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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Michael Ekstrand @md.ekstrandom.net · 15/07/2026
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...
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Final Paper Checklist
A list of things to check when preparing a paper for publication.
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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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)
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GitHub - oduwsdl/2026-research-expo: 2026 ODU Web Science and Digital Libraries (WSDL) Research Expo
2026 ODU Web Science and Digital Libraries (WSDL) Research Expo - oduwsdl/2026-research-expo
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Iroh @iroh.computer · 15/06/2026
We also shot a smol video. As a treat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Gt...
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iroh 1.0
YouTube video by number 0
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Iroh @iroh.computer · 15/06/2026
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!
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Iroh 1.0 - Dial Keys, not IPs
Iroh 1.0 is out. Now is the time to build.
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Mat Kelly @machawk1.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Hooded my first two PhD students at the final Drexel CCI Commencement. Congratulations to (the very soon to be) Drs. Choi and Rauch!
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Mat Kelly @machawk1.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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...
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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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...
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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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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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)
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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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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 16/05/2026
ABC killed fivethirtyeight.com, pulling down thousands of stories and dashboards. I can bring them back, but I can offer you fivethirtyeightindex.com, my new index of everything captured by archive.org.
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Mat Kelly @machawk1.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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...
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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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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The Internet is disappearing before our very eyes and it’s why we should all support that absolutely critical work of @archive.org
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Coalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
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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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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Mat Kelly @machawk1.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Today is my 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑟𝑦 — seven years ago today I defended my PhD dissertation!
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Mat Kelly @machawk1.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
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
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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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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
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...
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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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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/01/2026
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 …
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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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
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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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Andy Jackson @anjacks0n.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
New blog post: Re-launching COPTR!
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Re-launching COPTR!
Text version of the slides for the COPTR Re-launch #DPClinic event.
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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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...
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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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Mat Kelly @machawk1.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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/
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Emily Maemura @emae.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Thrilled to see @ktmac.bsky.social and my paper on robots.txt and infrastructural consent published here!!
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Bergis Jules 🇱🇨 @bergisjules.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Apply for @atbw.bsky.social's Web Archiving School www.archivingtheblackweb.org/apply/
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Apply – ATBW
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Ab Ee Gee @agrotke.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
#webarchiving at The Library of Congress after 25 years - a look back at some accomplishments! blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/20...
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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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Mat Kelly @machawk1.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
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
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Mat Kelly @machawk1.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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_...
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Andy Jackson @anj.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 18/12/2025
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... www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetai…
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#DPClinic January - Relaunching COPTR! - Digital Preservation Coalition
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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.
Screenshot of a paper entry:
Fictional Failures and Real-World Lessons: Ethical Speculation Through Design Fiction on Emotional Support Conversational AI
Authors: Faye Kollig, Jessica Pater, Fayika Farhat Nova, Casey Fiesler
(There are tabs with "abstract" and "summary" and "summary" is selected.)
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Mat Kelly @machawk1.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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)
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Mat Kelly @machawk1.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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
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Mat Kelly @machawk1.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The work described in this article was supported by IMLS 🫶 #webarchiving
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Travis Reid @treid803.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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...
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Problems With Archiving and Replaying Web Advertisements - Information Matters
Advertisements are an integral part of our cultural heritage, and this extends to online web advertisements. Unlike print ads, web ads are dynamic and interactive, which makes them difficult to archiv...
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ilovelibraries.bsky.social @ilovelibraries.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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: bit.ly/4496W4V
Photo of a banner featuring the logo for the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Photo credit: Shannon Finney / Institute of Museum and Library Services. Text below reads: "ALL PREVIOUSLY CANCELED FEDERAL LIBRARY GRANTS HAVE BEEN RESTORED: Following a court decision, the Institute of Museum and Library Services—the federal agency that provides funding for America’s libraries—announced it had reinstated all grants that it had previously terminated." Logos for I Love Libraries and the American Library Association.
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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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...
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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.
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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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...
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2025-10-26: Exploring the Different Generations of Twitter/X's Tweet UI
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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]
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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 ...
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Mat Kelly @machawk1.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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)
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Proceedings of the Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) Workshop 2025
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yuxi 👩🏻‍🏫 @yuxiwu.com · 17/10/2025
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
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yuxi wu, phd
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Mat Kelly @machawk1.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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
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Misty De Méo @cdrom.ca · 03/10/2025
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.
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digipres.club
Hometown is adapted from Mastodon, a decentralized social network with no ads, no corporate surveillance, and ethical design.
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Sharon McMeekin @sharonmcmeekin.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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.
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Mat Kelly @machawk1.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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.
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Mat Kelly @machawk1.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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/...
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