Research profile / 2026

Preserving the web’s changing record.

I study how the web is archived, described, replayed, and understood across time.

Research themes: web archiving semantic change scholarly infrastructure

Illustrated portrait of Mat Kelly
[A] Mat Kelly Information scientist · educator · web archivist

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Teaching & advising

  • Teaching Web Systems & Architecture · Metadata & Resource Description
  • Graduate advising Web archives · Digital libraries · Semantic change
  • Students Meet current doctoral and graduate researchers.
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Section 02 / Research

Research organized around the web’s long memory.

Across projects, I examine what web archives contain, what they omit, and how their records can remain understandable as platforms, language, and audiences change.

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Web archives

Improving the capture and replay of dynamic, personalized, and distributed web experiences.

  • Memento & time-based access
  • Personalized advertisements
  • Replay fidelity & context

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Semantic change

Tracing how concepts and vocabularies evolve across domains, communities, documents, and time.

  • Provenance-aware methods
  • Metadata vocabularies
  • Knowledge organization

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Scholarly infrastructure

Building open, interoperable systems for researchers, librarians, archivists, and students.

  • Digital libraries
  • Persistent identifiers
  • Open research tools

Working file / Current projects

What is underway now.

Selected research, workshops, and scholarly milestones from the current work file.

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Section 03 / Publications

Selected papers & proceedings.

A short index of recent work. The full bibliography, PDFs, BibTeX records, and presentation materials remain available on the current site.

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Section 04 / Students

Research is a collective practice.

I advise graduate researchers working across web archives, digital libraries, knowledge organization, provenance, and scholarly infrastructure.

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Prospective graduate students

Students interested in web archiving, metadata, semantic change, or durable scholarly systems are encouraged to review current projects and get in touch.

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Section 05 / Teaching

Learning to read information systems carefully.

Teaching connects technical architecture with the social responsibilities of preserving, describing, and providing access to information.

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Research environment / MAT Lab

A lab for the web’s long memory.

The MAT Lab studies how people and systems collect, revisit, and understand web resources over time—across archives, metadata, and open-source infrastructure.

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Correspondence / Contact

Let’s discuss the remembered web.

Academic home

Department of Information Science
Drexel University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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