Access Working Group

About the Access Working Group

The Access Working Group (AWG) focuses on issues relevant to providing access to web archives. The group consists of individuals of IIPC members institutions who work together towards solutions to common problems. The groups also aims to provide a forum in which IIPC members can share their experiences, establish common goals and inform their own development. In addition to technical research and development, the group recognises the legal, ethical and economic aspects of access. Furthermore, end-user, administrative and curatorial access to web archives all form parts of the group's considerations.

The AWG is chaired by Helen Hockx-Yu, British Library, and Kris Carpenter, Internet Archive. The Group generally meets twice a year, once at the IIPC General Assembly (May) and once during the International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES)(Fall).

Focus Areas

Understanding and defining user requirements for access
Resources discovery including full-text and innovative ways of searching web archives
Access to multimedia content within archived websites
Tools for analysis of structure and content of web archives
Identification and documentation of web archive use cases
Technology watch

Membership

The following institutions are actively involved in the AWG:

Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France)
British Library
California Digital Library
Ina (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel)
Internet Archive
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of The Netherlands)
Landsbókasafn Íslands - Háskólabókasafn (National and University Library of Iceland)
Library of Congress
National Diet Library, Japan
Netarchive.dk (Royal Library and the State and University Library, Aarhus)
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Austrian National Library)
Schweizerische Nationalbibliothek (Swiss National Library)
University of North Texas Libraries

2009-2010 Workplan

1. Registry of IIPC members' web archives. Lead: Helen Hockx-Yu, British Library
Completed and available at http://www.netpreserve.org/about/archiveList.php.

2. Collaborative gather and access to 2010 Winter Olympics. Lead: Kris Carpenter, Internet Archive

3. Backwards compatibility for NutchWAX with .10 release. Lead: Aaron Binns, Internet Archive

4. Multi-lingual support in Nutch/NutchWAX for Japanese. Lead: Masayuki Asahara, National Diet Library, Japan

5. Evaluation of alternative full-text search platforms. Lead: Aaron Binns, Internet Archive

6. Research use case of web archives. Lead: Claude Mussou, Ina