The proceedings & recordings of the 5 presentations at the Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) 2025 Workshop from ACM Hypertext (@ACMHT) in September 2025 are now live!
* Proceedings: ualberta.scholaris.ca/items/…
* Recordings: wadlworkshop.github.io/2025/… (@ Internet Archive & YT)
Our article "Liberation of LMS-siloed Instructional Data" was just released by the @Code4Lib Journal!
The work documents efforts in extracting @US_IMLS-funded bootcamp content frm Blackboard for reuse in lib. carpentries & for reference by students.
📝 journal.code4lib.org/article…
At Day 4 of #ACMHT2025 Karlijn Dinnissen describes role of fairness & diversity in user choices & perception of music playlists.
* What do end users think makes a fair MusicRec sys?
* How does that impact their choices?
* How should they be informed?
📄 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37205…
2 days left (September 19, 2025 AoE) to submit Resources (Data/Software); JCDL 2025 invites submissions to a dedicated Resources Track, focused on public datasets, software & benchmarks.
CFP: 2025.jcdl.org/call-for-resou…#JCDL2025#digitallibraries
Ágnes Horvát highlights in her @ACMHT keynote that the frequency of certain words in PubMed abstracts has drastically increased due to authors massaging their texts with LLMs. #HT2025#ACMHT2025
In his #nht25 prez @ #HT25, David Millard (@hoosfoos) ids the parallels between hypertext & those that will come as a result of gen AI. Who controls meaning? What are the boundaries of text? We typically think of AI as an assistant, the human being's still the wordsmith.
Words per pope: Andrezej Adamski discusses the inter-pope sentiment of popes in time at the HUMAN workshop (@HUMAN_HT) at @ACMHT#ACMHT2025. Takeaway: phrases track the media environment of each era.
How would hypertext help w/ census date resolution? In Cathy Marshall's @HUMAN_HT keynote at @ACMHT#ACMHT2025:
It's important to be able to back out records when Ruth isn't Paul's bio mother & that all her records should be deprecated. The cost for link-making is high and noisy.
At the HUMAN workshop ( @HUMAN_HT ) at Day 2 of ACM Hypertext ( @ACMHT ), Cathy Marshall gives the keynote with a story about John Tukey looking at data at large while she was close reading the data (i.e., observing microwaved Ivory soap) #ACMHT2025
🚨🚨🚨JCDL 2025 deadlines for CFPs are fast approaching:
All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time:
- Full/Short Paper, Workshops & Tutorials: September 12, 2025
- Posters and Demos, Resources, Doctoral Consortium, & Panels : September 19, 2025
#JCDL2025#digitallibraries