Memento. Archive. Time.

The MAT Lab studies how people and systems collect, revisit, describe, and understand web resources across time.

Section 02 / Workstreams

A research environment organized around time.

Lab work links web-scale technical questions with the metadata, provenance, and community practices that make records useful.

[A]

Memento

Time-based access

Interfaces, aggregators, and protocols that connect current web resources to prior states.

Temporal navigation · Aggregation · Replay

[B]

Capture & representation

What web archives preserve, what they miss, and how personalized or dynamic content complicates the record.

WARC · Personalization · Fidelity

[C]

Description

Metadata & provenance

Vocabulary, semantic evolution, persistent identifiers, and documentary records of transformation.

PROV-O · ARKs · Knowledge organization

[D]

Community

Digital-library practice

Workshops, open systems, student research, and shared infrastructure that connect scholarship to preservation practice.

WADL · Open artifacts · Research mentorship

Section 03 / Lab practice

Make the process part of the record.

The lab treats documentation, versioning, reflection, and open artifacts as research contributions rather than administrative residue.

Document

Keep decisions visible

Record research questions, data transformations, uncertainty, and changes in direction.

Release

Share useful artifacts

Publish code, schemas, slides, reports, and datasets when responsible and practical.

Reflect

Write the lab record

Use reports and trip notes to connect day-to-day work with the larger research program.

Section 04 / Recent Lab Log

Writings & reports from the group.

The Lab Log is a public working record: course reports, project announcements, conference reflections, and research-group activity.

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Section 05 / Work with the lab

Join through the question.

Prospective students and collaborators should begin with the research problem, its connection to the lab’s work, and the perspective they would bring.

Prospective researchers

Lab pathways

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