Mat Kelly

Current Projects & News

• Preparing for Summer research projects: Web Ads, YAMZ versioning, ipwb privacy, client-side Mink.
• Our proposal for the Web Archiving and Digital Libraries Workshop (WADL) 2025 has been accepted to the ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media!
• Our Technical Report, "Archiving and Replaying Current Web Advertisements: Challenges and Opportunities" is now available on arXiv!
• Continued development of free and open-source web archiving software like InterPlanetary Wayback (ipwb), WARCreate, Web Archiving Integration Layer (WAIL), and Mink.

Papers, Posters & Presentations

• All
• Only Peer-Reviewed
• Only Papers
• Only Journals
• Only Awarded

• Mat Kelly and Brenda Reyes Ayala, “Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) Workshop 2025,” Accepted to be presented at the 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT 2025), Chicago, Illinois, September 15-19, 2025. (Workshop Website, Info)
• Mat Kelly, "Identifying Personalized and False Citations in Academic Web Pages Using Web Archives," In Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Information Retrieval, and Scrapers, Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2026.
• Mat Kelly, “What You See No One Saw,” Presented at the Archive-It Partner Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, June 26, 2025. (Slides)
• Travis Reid, Alex H. Poole, Hyung Wook Choi, Christopher Rauch, Mat Kelly, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “Archiving and Replaying Current Web Advertisements: Challenges and Opportunities,” Technical Report arXiv:2502.01525, 2025. (PDF, BibTeX)
• Mat Kelly, Alexander H. Poole, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson, Travis Reid, Christopher Rauch, and Hyung Wook Choi, “What You See No One Saw,” Presented at the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) Web Archiving Conference (WAC) 2025, Oslo, Norway, April 8-10, 2025. (Info, Slides, BibTeX)
• Erjia Yan, Robert T. Palmer, Jiangen He, Chaoqun Ni, and Mat Kelly, “Diversity of HBCUs' Institutional Human Capital: A Cross-Discipline, Longitudinal Analysis of Faculty Hiring and Placement at HBCUs,” Innovative Higher Education, December 2024. (PDF, BibTeX, DOI)
• Christopher B. Rauch, Hyung Wook Choi, and Mat Kelly, “Beyond the 'Idols of the Marketplace': Managing Semantic Change in Research,” In Proceedings from the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Document Academy, Vol. 11, Issue 2, Article 3. (PDF, BibTeX, DOI)
• John Berlin, Mat Kelly, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “To Re-experience the Web: A Framework for the Transformation and Replay of Archived Web Pages,” Presented at the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Boise, Idaho, October 22, 2024. (Slides, Info)
• Hyung Wook Choi and Mat Kelly, “Documenting Semantic Shifts Across Domains with Version Control,” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Document Academy (DOCAM '24), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 19-21, 2024. (Info)
• Deanna Zarrillo, Erjia Yan, Mat Kelly, Jiangen He, Chaoqun Ni, and Robert Palmer, “Longitudinal Academic Mobility Patterns at Howard University,” Preprint, September 2, 2024. (Online, DOI)
• Deanna Zarrillo, Mat Kelly, Erjia Yan, and Chaoqun Ni, “Web Archives for Data Collection: An Ethics Case Study,” Accountability in Research: Ethics, Integrity and Policy, pp. 1-18, September 2024. (Info, BibTeX, DOI)
• Christopher Rauch, Alex H. Poole, Travis Reid, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson, Faryaneh Poursardar, and Mat Kelly, “Archiving Digital Marketing: Examining Preservation of Dynamic Content on the Web Through the Lens of Online Advertisements,” Accepted to be In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES) 2024, Ghent, Belgium, September 16–20, 2024. (Info, PDF, Slides, DOI)
• Christopher Rauch, Mat Kelly, Alex H. Poole, Travis Reid, Faryaneh Poursardar, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “Contextual Archiving of Web Page Advertisements Using Persona-Based Tools,” Presented at the Society of American Archivists (SAA) Research Forum, Online, July 17, 2024. (Slides, Info)
• Christopher Rauch, Mat Kelly, Alexander H. Poole, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson, and Travis Reid, “Saving Ads: Assessing and Improving Web Archives’ Holdings of Online Advertisements,” Presented at the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) Web Archiving Conference (WAC) 2024, Paris, France, April 24–26, 2024. (Slides, Presentation Recording, BibTeX)
• Mat Kelly, “Exploiting the Untapped Functional Potential of Memento Aggregators Beyond Aggregation,” International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL), 25(1), pp. 93–104, March 2024. (PDF, BibTeX, DOI)
• John Berlin, Mat Kelly, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “To Re-experience the Web: A Framework for the Transformation and Replay of Archived Web Pages,” ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), 17(4), pp. 1–49, November 2023. (PDF, Preprint, BibTeX, DOI)
• Hyung Wook Choi and Mat Kelly, “On Identifying Points of Semantic Shift Across Domains,” Presented at the 17th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR), Milan, Italy, October 25–27, 2023. (Info, arXiv, BibTeX)
• Erjia Yan, Mat Kelly, Deanna Zarrillo, Jiangen He, Chaoqun Ni, and Robert Palmer, “Examining the academic mobility at Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the U.S.,” In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI), pp. 507-513, Bloomington, Indiana, July 2–⁠5, 2023. (PDF, Info, BibTeX, DOI)
• Mat Kelly, Brenda Reyes Ayala, Zhiwu Xie, and Edward A. Fox, “Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) 2023,” In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), pp. 314–⁠315, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 2023. (PDF, Info, Schedule, BibTeX, DOI)
• Mat Kelly, Deanna Zarrillo, and Erjia Yan, “Using Web Archives to Model Academic Migration and Identify Brain Drain,” Presented at the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) Web Archiving Conference (WAC) 2023, Online, May 3, 2023. (Slides, Schedule, BibTeX)
• Jane Greenberg, Scott McClellan, Christopher Rauch, Xintong Zhao, Mat Kelly, Yuan An, John Kunze, Rachel Orenstein, Claire Porter, Vanessa Meschke, and Eric Toberer, “Building Community Consensus for Scientific Metadata with YAMZ,” Data Intelligence, 5(1), pp. 242–⁠260, February 2023. (PDF, BibTeX, DOI)
• Mat Kelly, “Aggregator Reuse and Extension for Richer Web Archive Interaction,” In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2022), pp. 313–328, Hanoi, Vietnam, November 30–December 2, 2022. (PDF, arXiv, BibTeX, Slides, DOI)
• Deanna Zarrillo, Mat Kelly, Christopher Jackson, and Erjia Yan, “Collecting Diachronic Affiliation Data for Faculty at HBCUs Using Memento,” In Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, pp. 528–532, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 29–November 1, 2022. (PDF, Info, BibTeX, Slides, DOI)
• Hyung Wook Choi and Mat Kelly, “Examining Existing Approaches Toward Semantic Disambiguation,” In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) Conference 2022, Aalborg, Denmark, pp. 349–352, July 6–8, 2022. (PDF, Info, BibTeX, DOI)
• Mat Kelly, Deanna Zarrillo, Christopher Jackson, and Erjia Yan, “First steps in Identifying Academic Migration using Memento and Quasi-Canonicalization,” Presented at the ACM/IEEE JCDL 2022 Workshop on Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL 2022), Cologne, Germany, June 20–24, 2022. (PDF, BibTeX, Slides)
• Martin Klein, Mat Kelly, Zhiwu Xie, and Edward A. Fox, “Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) 2022,” In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), pp. 1–2, Cologne, Germany, June 2022. (PDF, BibTeX, DOI)
• Christopher B. Rauch, Mat Kelly, John Kunze, and Jane Greenberg, “FAIR Metadata: A Community-driven Vocabulary Application,” In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR), Online, pp. 187–198, November 29–December 3, 2021. (arXiv, BibTeX, DOI)
• Jane Greenberg, Christopher B. Rauch, and Mat Kelly, “Project Pipeline: Preservation, Persistence, and Performance,” In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES) 2021, Beijing, China, October 19–22, 2021. (arXiv, BibTeX, Slides, DOI)
• Scott McClellan, Mat Kelly, and Jane Greenberg, “Modeling Ephraim Chambers' Knowledge Structure From a Naïve Standpoint,” Presented at The 8th North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO 2021), Online, July 9–11, 2021. (PDF, arXiv, program, Slides, BibTeX)
• Mat Kelly, Christopher B. Rauch, John Kunze, Sam Grabus, Joan Boone, Peter M. Logan, and Jane Greenberg, “Archival Resource Keys for Collaborative Historical Ontology Publication,” In Proceedings of the International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities (ICTeSSH 2021), June 28–30, 2021. (PDF, DOI, BibTeX)
• Mat Kelly, “WASAPIfying private web archiving tools for persistence and collaboration,” Presented at the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) Web Archiving Conference (WAC) 2021, Online, June 15–16, 2021. (Slides, schedule, BibTeX)
• Mat Kelly, Christopher B. Rauch, Jane Greenberg, Sam Grabus, Joan Boone, John Kunze, and Peter M. Logan, “Advancing ARKs in the Historical Ontology Space,” Code4Lib Journal, Issue 50, Feb 2021. (article, BibTeX)
• Mat Kelly, Jane Greenberg, Christopher B. Rauch, Joan P. Boone, John Kunze, and Peter Logan, “Of ARKs and Ontologies,” Presented at PIDapalooza 2021, Online Meeting, 27–28 January 2021. (Info, BibTeX)
• Mat Kelly, Jane Greenberg, Christopher B. Rauch, Sam Grabus, Joan P. Boone, John A. Kunze, and Peter Melville Logan, “A Computational Approach to Historical Ontologies,” In Proceedings of the 5th Computational Archival Science Workshop at the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2020), Atlanta, Georgia, pp. 1878–1883, December 2020. (arXiv, BibTeX, DOI, Slides)
• Hyung Wook Choi, Rose Ann DiMaria-Ghalili, Mat Kelly, Alexander Poole, Erjia Yan, and Jina Huh-Yoo, (2020) “Older Adults and Technology Use: A Systematic Literature Review,” Symposium presentation at the Gerontological Society of America 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting, Vol 4 (Suppl 1), pp. 823, Online Meeting, 4–7 November 2020. (PDF, DOI)
• Michal Monselise, Jane Greenberg, Ou Stella Liang, Sonia Pascua, Heejun Kim, Mat Kelly, Joan P. Boone, and Christopher C. Yang, “An Automatic Approach to Extending the Consumer Health Vocabulary,” Journal of Data and Information Science (JDIS), 6(1), pp. 35–49. 2021. (Published Online Ahead of Print in 2020). (PDF, BibTeX, DOI)
• Abigail Mabe, Dhruv Patel, Maheedhar Gunnam, Surbhi Shankar, Mat Kelly, Sawood Alam, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “TMVis: Visualizing Webpage Changes Over Time,” Presented at the ACM/IEEE JCDL 2020 Workshop on Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL 2020), Wuhan, China, August 2020. (PDF, BibTeX)
• Abigail Mabe, Dhruv Patel, Maheedhar Gunnam, Surbhi Shankar, Mat Kelly, Sawood Alam, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “Visualizing Webpage Changes Over Time,” Technical Report arXiv:2006.02487, 2020. (PDF, BibTeX)
• Mat Kelly, “Weaving in the Loose Ends of Novel Web Archiving Approaches,” Presented at Save All the Internet: Web Archiving Tools and Tips, Newark, Delaware, 30 March 2020. (Slides)
• Sawood Alam, Mat Kelly, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “InterPlanetary Wayback: The Next Step Towards Decentralized Web Archiving,” Presented at the Decentralized Web Summit, San Francisco, California, August 2018. (Slides)
• Mat Kelly, Sawood Alam, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “Client-Assisted Memento Aggregation Using the Prefer Header,” Presented at the Web Archiving and Digital Libraries Workshop (WADL 2018), Fort Worth, Texas, June 2018. (PDF, BibTeX)
• Sawood Alam, Mat Kelly, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “A Survey of Archival Replay Banners,” Presented at the Web Archiving and Digital Libraries Workshop (WADL 2018), Fort Worth, Texas, June 2018. (PDF, BibTeX)
• Mat Kelly, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “A Framework for Aggregating Private and Public Web Archives,” In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Fort Worth, Texas, June 2018, pp. 273–282. Best Paper Award Nominee. (PDF, BibTeX, DOI)
• Mohamed Aturban, Mat Kelly, Sawood Alam, John A. Berlin, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “ArchiveNow: Simplified, Extensible, Multi-Archive Preservation,” In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Fort Worth, Texas, June 2018, pp. 321–322. Best Poster Award. (PDF, BibTeX, DOI)
• Sawood Alam, Mat Kelly, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “Unobtrusive and Extensible Archival Replay Banners Using Custom Elements,” In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Fort Worth, Texas, June 2018, pp. 319–320. (PDF, BibTeX, DOI)
• Mat Kelly, Lulwah M. Alkwai, Sawood Alam, Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle, and Herbert Van de Sompel, “Impact of URI Canonicalization on Memento Count,” Presented at the Web Archiving and Digital Libraries Workshop (WADL 2017). Toronto, Canada, June 2017. (BibTeX, PDF)
• Sawood Alam, Mat Kelly, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “Avoiding Zombies in Archival Replay Using ServiceWorker,” Presented at the Web Archiving and Digital Libraries Workshop (WADL 2017). Toronto, Canada, June 2017. (BibTeX, PDF)
• Mat Kelly, Lulwah M. Alkwai, Sawood Alam, Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle, and Herbert Van de Sompel, “Impact of URI Canonicalization on Memento Count,” In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). Toronto, Canada, June 2017, pp. 303–304. Best Poster Award. (PDF, BibTeX, DOI)
• Sawood Alam, Mat Kelly, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “Client-side Reconstruction of Composite Mementos Using ServiceWorker,” In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). Toronto, Canada, June 2017, pp. 237–240. (PDF, Slides, BibTeX, DOI)
• John A. Berlin, Mat Kelly, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “WAIL: Collection-Based Personal Web Archiving,” In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). Toronto, Canada, June 2017, pp. 340–341. (PDF, BibTeX, DOI)
• Mat Kelly and David Dias, “A Collaborative, Secure, and Private InterPlanetary Wayback Archiving System using IPFS,” Presented at the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) Web Archiving Conference (WAC) 2017, London, England, 15 June 2017. (Slides)
• Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson, Mat Kelly, and John Berlin, “Archive What I See Now - Personal Web Archiving with WARCS,” Presented at the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) Web Archiving Conference (WAC), London, England, 15 June 2017. (Slides)
• Mat Kelly, “Tools for the Personal Web Archivist: WARCreate, WAIL, Mink, InterPlanetary Wayback,” Presented At Archives Unleashed 4.0: Web Archive Datathon, 12 June 2017. (Slides)
• Sawood Alam, Mat Kelly, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “InterPlanetary Wayback: The Permanent Web Archive,” Bulletin of IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (IEEE-TCDL), Vol. 13, No. 1, April 2017. (BibTeX, PDF)
• Mat Kelly, Lulwah M. Alkwai, Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle, and Herbert Van de Sompel, “Impact of URI Canonicalization on Memento Count,” Technical Report arXiv:1703.03302, 2017. (PDF, BibTeX)
• Mat Kelly, Sawood Alam, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “InterPlanetary Wayback: Peer-To-Peer Permanence of Web Archives,” In Proceedings of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL). Hannover, Germany, September 2016, pp. 411–416. (PDF, Slides, BibTeX, DOI)
• Mat Kelly, Sawood Alam, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “InterPlanetary Wayback: The Permanent Web Archive,” At the Web Archiving and Digital Libraries Workshop (WADL 2016). Newark, NJ, June 2016.
• Sawood Alam, Mat Kelly, and Michael L. Nelson, “InterPlanetary Wayback: The Permanent Web Archive,” In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). Newark, NJ, June 2016, pp. 273–274. (PDF, BibTeX, DOI)
• Mat Kelly, “Exploring Aggregation of Personal, Private, and Institutional Web Archives,” Presented At Archives Unleashed 2.0: Web Archive Datathon, 2016 June 15. (PPTX)
• Justin F. Brunelle, Mat Kelly, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “The Impact of JavaScript on Archivability,” International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL), 17(2), pp. 95–117. January 2016. (article, BibTeX, DOI)
• Mat Kelly, “A Framework for Aggregating Private and Public Web Archives,” Bulletin of IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (IEEE-TCDL), Vol. 11, No. 3, December 2015. (BibTeX, PDF)
• Mat Kelly, “A Framework for Aggregating Private and Public Web Archives,” at the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). Doctoral Consortium. Knoxville, TN, June 2015.
• Wesley Jordan, Mat Kelly, Justin F. Brunelle, Laura Vobrak, Michele C. Weigle and Michael L. Nelson, “Mobile Mink: Merging Mobile and Desktop Archived Webs,” In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). Knoxville, TN, June 2015, pp. 243–244, Best Poster Award. (PDF, BibTeX, DOI)
• Mat Kelly, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “Visualizing Digital Collections of Web Archives,” Web Archiving Collaboration: New Tools and Models; 2015 June 4; New York City, NY. (PPTX)
• Justin F. Brunelle, Mat Kelly, Hany SalahEldeen, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “Not All Mementos Are Created Equal: Measuring the Impact of Missing Resources,” International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL), 16(3), pp. 283–301. May 2015. (article, BibTeX, DOI)
• Mat Kelly, “Facilitation of the A Posteriori Replication of Web Published Satellite Imagery,” Virginia Space Grant Consortium 2015 Student Research Conference. 2015 April 17; Hampton, VA. (PDF, PPTX, BibTeX)
• Michael Ruffing, Yangyang He, Mat Kelly, Jason O. Hallstrom, Stephan Olariu, and Michele C. Weigle, “A Retasking Framework For Wireless Sensor Networks,” In Proceedings of the IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM). Baltimore, MD, 2014 October 6–8, pp. 1066–1071 (PDF, BibTeX, DOI)
• Justin F. Brunelle, Mat Kelly, Hany SalahEldeen, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “Not All Mementos Are Created Equal: Measuring The Impact Of Missing Resources,” In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). London, England, September 2014, pp. 321–330, Best Student Paper Award. (PDF, BibTeX)
• Mat Kelly, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “The Archival Acid Test: Evaluating Archive Performance on Advanced HTML and JavaScript,” In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). London, England, September 2014, pp. 25–28. (PDF, BibTeX, DOI)
• Mat Kelly, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “Mink: Integrating the Live and Archived Web Viewing Experience Using Web Browsers and Memento,” In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). London, England, September 2014, pp. 469–470. (PDF, BibTeX, DOI)
• Michael L. Nelson, Scott G. Ainsworth, Justin F. Brunelle, Mat Kelly, Hany SalahEldeen, and Michele C. Weigle, “Assessing the Quality of Web Archives,” Digital Preservation 2014, Future of Web Archiving Panel; 2014 July 23; Washington, DC. (PPT)
• Mat Kelly, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “Efficient Thumbnail Summarization for Web Archives,” Digital Preservation 2014, Poster Session; 2014 July 22; Washington, DC. (PDF)
• Mat Kelly, Justin F. Brunelle, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “A Method for Identifying Personalized Representations in the Archives,” D-Lib Magazine, 19(11/12), 2013. (article, BibTeX, DOI)
• Mat Kelly, “Archive What I See Now,” Archive-It Partner Meeting. Salt Lake City, UT, 2013 November 12. (PPTX)
• Mat Kelly, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “Graph-Based Navigation of a Box Office Prediction System,” In Proceedings of the IEEE VIS 2013. Atlanta, GA, 2013 October 13–18. (PDF, Poster, BibTeX)
• Michael L. Nelson, Scott G. Ainsworth, Justin F. Brunelle, Mat Kelly, Hany SalahEldeen, and Michele C. Weigle, “Who Will Archive the Archives? Thoughts About the Future of Web Archiving,” Wolfram Data Summit 2013. Washington, DC, 2013 September 5–6. (PPT)
• Mat Kelly, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “WARCreate and WAIL: WARC, Wayback and Heritrix Made Easy,” Digital Preservation 2013, Workshops and Sessions: Web Archiving; 2013 July 24; Alexandria, VA. (PPTX)
• Mat Kelly, Justin F. Brunelle, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “On the Change in Archivability of Websites Over Time,” In Proceedings of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL). Valletta, Malta, September 2013, pp. 35–47. (PDF, BibTeX, DOI)
• Mat Kelly, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “Making Enterprise-Level Archive Tools Accessible for Personal Web Archiving,” Personal Digital Archiving 2013; 2013 February 21; College Park, MD. (PDF, BibTeX)
• Mat Kelly, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “WARCreate - Create Wayback-Consumable WARC Files from Any Webpage,” Digital Preservation 2012, Tools Demo Session: Web Archiving; 2012 July 25; Washington, DC. (PPTX, PPTX w/ videos)
• Mat Kelly and Michele C. Weigle, “WARCreate - Create Wayback-Consumable WARC Files from Any Webpage,” In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). Washington, DC, June 2012, pp. 437–438. (PDF, Poster, BibTeX, DOI)
• Thad Chee (Science Systems & Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA), Matthew Kelly (Science Systems & Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA), Louis Nguyen (NASA-Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA), Patrick Minnis (NASA-Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA), Rabindra Palikonda, Douglas A. Spangenberg (Science Systems & Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA), J. Kirk Ayers (Science Systems & Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA). Access to Real-time and Historic Satellite Products from a Mobile Application. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting; 2011 December 5–9; San Francisco, CA. (PPT, BibTeX)
• Mat Kelly, Syed R. Rizvi, Liang Chen, Chinmay Lokesh, Stephan Olariu, and Michele C. Weigle, “ALERT: A Next-generation Emergency Response System for First Responders using Retasking of Wireless Sensor Networks,” 13th Annual Tidewater Student Research Poster Session; 2011 November 18; Newport News, VA. (PDF)
• Mat Kelly, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “Archiving Your Facebook Pages Using Archive Facebook,” NDIIPP/NDSA Partners Meeting Special Interest Session: Web Archiving; 2011 July 20; Washington, DC. (PPTX)
• David Helman (BMW Group, Greenville, SC), Matthew Kelly (BMW Group, Greenville, SC), Martin Guttmann (Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA), Bill Carter (Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA), Enrique Castro-Leon (Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA), Thomas Kellerer (Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA), Dror Shenkar (Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA), “Preserving Performance While Saving Power Using Intel Intelligent Power Node Manager and Intel Data Center Manger,” December 2009. (article (archived), PDF)

Funding

I am thankful for the financial support that has helped to continue research projects. This is a not-yet-complete listing of the support I have received post-PhD.

• Preserving Personalized Advertisements for More Accurate Web Archives
  • Sponsor/Program: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) FY2024 National Leadership Grants
  • Role: PI
  • Amount: $398,927.00
  • Term: 2024–2026
• Saving Ads: Assessing and Improving Web Archives' Holdings of Online Advertisements
  • Sponsor/Program: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) FY2022 National Leadership Grants
  • Role: PI
  • Amount: $149,479.00
  • Term: 2022–2024
• Venom: Archiving the Dark Web
  • Sponsor/Program: MITRE Corp.
  • Amount: $10,000.00
  • Term: 2022
• Examining the effects of academic mobility on individual professors’ research activity and institutional human capital at HBCUs
  • Sponsor/Program: National Science Foundation (NSF), Science of Science: Discovery, Communication, and Impact
  • Role: Co-PI
  • Amount: $396,691.00
  • Term: 2021–2024
• Advancing Access Regulation to Private Content Preserved from the Web
  • Sponsor/Program: Drexel University Office of Research, 2021 Faculty Summer Research Awards for Tenure/Tenure-Track Faculty
  • Role: PI
  • Amount: $7,000.00
  • Term: 2021–2022
• LIS Education And Data Science-Integrated Network Group (LEADING)
  • Sponsor/Program: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (LB21)
  • Role: Senior Personnel
  • Amount: $887,154.00
  • Term: 2021–2023

Students

PhD Advisees

• Christopher Rauch, 2020—present
• Hyung Wook Choi, 2022—present

PhD Committee Member

• Danielle Boccelli (advisor: Jake Ryland Williams)
• Sonia Pascua (advisor: Weimao Ke)
• Deanna Zarrillo (@zarrillogical, advisor: Erjia Yan)
• Hanieh Razzaghi (advisor: Jane Greenberg)
• Sam Grabus (advisor: Jane Greenberg)

Recognition & Participation

• Organizing Committee, Web Chair, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2025, May 2025-present.
• Program Committee (Reviewer), International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) 2025, May 2025-present.
• Reviewer, Big Data & Society, January 2025.
• Faculty Panelist, Aleksandra Sarcevic's INFO871 - PhD Process and Practice, Drexel University, November 2024.
• Program Committee (Reviewer), ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci) 2025, November 2024.
• Program Committee (Reviewer), iConference 2025, October 2024.
• Program Committee (Reviewer), ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2024, August 2024.
• Organizing Committee, Web Presence, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2024, July-December 2024.
• Reviewer, ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2024, July 2024.
• Presenter, “To Request Is Human, To Retrieve Divine”, Drexel CCI's Doctoral Student Association's Research Showcase, Drexel University, May 2024.
• Invited Guest Presenter, “Facilitating a More Complete, Accessible Web History”, Jane Greenberg's INFO821 - Foundations of Information Science, Drexel University, April 2024.
• Organizing Committee, Publicity Chair, ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2023), October 2023.
• Program Committee (Reviewer), ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci) 2024, September 2023.
• Program Committee (Reviewer), iConference 2024, August 2023.
• Program Committee (Reviewer), International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2023), August 2023.
• Reviewer, SoftwareX, May 2023.
• Reviewer, Internet Histories, May 2023.
• Invited Guest Presenter, “Facilitating a More Complete, Accessible Web History”, Jane Greenberg's INFO821 - Foundations of Information Science, Drexel University, May 2023.
• Program Committee (Reviewer), International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES) 2023, April 2023.
• Funding Reviewer, the Dutch Research Council (NWO), January 2023.
• Program Committee (Reviewer), ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci) 2023, December 2022.
• Conference Program Chair, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2023, June 2023.
• Reviewer, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), November 2022.
• Invited Participant, iConference Early Career Colloquium (ECC), March 2022.
• Program Committee (Reviewer), ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci) 2022, February 2022.
• Senior Program Committee, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2022, February 2022.
• Program Committee (Reviewer), ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2021, May 2021.
• Invited Guest Presenter, “On Topic Evolution, Selection, and Future Work”, Aleksandra Sarcevic's INFO871 - PhD Process and Practice, Drexel University, November 2021.
• Reviewer, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), October 2021.
• Reviewer, Journal of Computer Security, May 2021.
• Managing Editor, International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL), April 2021-present.
• Organizing Committee, Virtual Meeting Support Committee Chair, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2021.
• Program Committee (Reviewer), ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2021, May 2021.
• Featured Interviewee, National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) blog, July 2020.
• Program Committee (Reviewer), ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2020, February 2020.
• Sole Presenter, “Save My Web Things For Me and Others but Not All” for the Drexel CCI Masters of Information Webinar Series, February 2020.
• Invited Guest Presenter, Michele C. Weigle's CS800 - Research Methods, Old Dominion University, January 2020.
• Program Committee (Reviewer), European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) 2020, November 2019.
• Invited Guest Presenter, “On Archival Negotiation Beyond Time”, Jane Greenberg's INFO821 - Foundations of Information Science, Drexel University, October 2019.
• Invited Guest Presenter, “A Framework for Aggregating Private and Public Web Archives”, James Z. Wang's Data Science course, Penn State University, February 2019.
• Invited Guest Presenter, “On Tool Building and Evaluation of the Archived Web”, IST441 - Information Retrieval and Search Engines, Penn State University, February 2019.
• Organizing Committee, Publicity Chair, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2019.
• Program Committee (Reviewer), ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2019, February 2019.
• Reviewer, International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL), 2018.
• Best Paper Finalist for “A Framework for Aggregating Private and Public Web Archives” at the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), June 2018.
• Best Poster for “ArchiveNow: Simplified, Extensible, Multi-Archive Preservation” at the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), June 2018.
• Program Committee (Reviewer), ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2018, January 2018.
• Organizing Committee, Publicity Chair, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2018.
• Best Poster for “Impact of URI Canonicalization on Memento Count” at the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), June 2017.
• Participant and Presenter, Archives Unleashed 4.0: Web Archive Datathon, June 2017.
• Program Committee (Reviewer), Access 2017, May 2017.
• Scholarship Awardee, Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, October 2016.
• Participant, IIPC “Building Better Crawlers” Hackathon, September 2016.
• Invited Participant and Presenter, Archives Unleashed 2.0: Web Archive Datathon, June 2016.
• Invited Participant, Archives Unleashed: Web Archive Hackathon, March 2016.
• Sole Presenter, Old Dominion University Department of Computer Science PhD Gathering, November 2015.
• Best Poster for “Mobile Mink: Merging Mobile and Desktop Archived Webs” at the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), June 2015.
• Best Student Paper for “Not All Mementos Are Created Equal: Measuring The Impact Of Missing Resources” at ACM/IEEE Digital Libraries 2014, September 2014.
• NASA Virginia Space Grant Consortium Graduate Fellow, August 2014.
• Doctoral Student Presenter, “Browser-Based Digital Preservation” for Visiting PES University Students, Old Dominion University, July 2014.
• Acknowledged Contributor, RFC7089: HTTP Framework for Time-Based Access to Resource States -- Memento, December 2013.
• Guest Presenter, CS595 - Intro to Web Science, Old Dominion University, October 2013.
• Featured Interviewee, The Signal Digital Preservation Blog, August 2012.
• Participant, Web Archiving Cooperative (WAC) Summer Workshop, June 2012.
• Future Steward Innovation Award Recipient, National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) / Library of Congress, July 2012.
• Featured Grad Student, Old Dominion University Computer Science Department, June 2012.
• Reviewer, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2012, March 2012.

Teaching

• Spring 2026: INFO202 - Data Curation (Forthcoming)
• Winter 2026: INFO655 - Intro to Web Programming (Forthcoming)
• Winter 2026: INFO624 - Intelligent Search and Language Models (Forthcoming)
• Spring 2025: INFO202 - Data Curation
• Winter 2025: INFO655 - Intro to Web Programming
• Fall 2024: INFO101 - Introduction to Computing and Security Technology
• Spring 2024: INFO202 - Data Curation
• Winter 2024: INFO655 - Intro to Web Programming
• Fall 2023: INFO624 - Information Retrieval Systems
• Spring 2023: INFO202 - Data Curation
• Winter 2023: INFO102 - Introduction to Information Systems
• Fall 2022: INFO600 - Web Systems & Architecture
• Winter 2022: INFO624 - Information Retrieval Systems
• Spring 2021: INFO202 - Data Curation
• Winter 2021: INFO624 - Information Retrieval Systems
• Fall 2020: INFO600 - Web Systems & Architecture
• Summer 2020: INFO624 - Information Retrieval System
• Spring 2020: INFO202 - Data Curation
• Fall 2019: INFO600 - Web Systems & Architecture
• Spring 2015: CS418 - Web Programming

Assorted Software Projects

• InterPlanetary Wayback (ipwb) - Integration of WARCs into IPFS for more redundant and persistent web archives.
• Mobile Mink - Android application for aggregating and accessing mobile and desktop mementos.
• Mink - Chrome extension to integrate the live and archived web using Memento.
• Tachyon - Time travel for the web. Memento browser plugin for Google Chrome.
• Web Archiving Integration Layer (WAIL) - One-Click User Instigated Preservation.
• WARCreate - Google Chrome extension to allow a user to create a Web ARChive (WARC) file from any webpage.
• Reverse Archive-It - Quick prototype to determine the collections to which a webpage has been associated by Archive-It. (video demo)
• ArchiveFacebook - Mozilla Firefox add-on to allow a user to easily download and save the contents of their Facebook profile (development discontinued).

Contact

• mkelly at drexel.edu (E-mail)
• @machawk1 (Twitter/X)
• @machawk1@digipres.club (Mastodon)
• @machawk1.bsky.social (Bluesky)
• @machawk1 (GitHub)
• Mat Kelly @ Google Scholar
• orcid:0000-0002-0236-7389
• Web of Science ResearcherID: A-3809-2019
• Mat Kelly @ Semantic Scholar
• Mat Kelly @ DBLP