International Internet Preservation Consortium
2012 General Assembly
April 30 - May 4, 2012

Agenda

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Meeting and Workshop descriptions

This agenda is a draft and subject to changes and updates.

Access Working Group
9am - 10:30am: Updates from AWG member institutions, research initiatives, product/tool enhancements/demos, etc. (e.g. QA module for WCT, Access2Preserve, launches, recent policy decisions, legislation or other legal impacts, etc.)
10:30am BREAK
11am - 11:45am: Memento Project discussion
11:45am - 12:30pm: Olympics 2012 Curation/Planning/Crawl
LUNCH 12:30-1:30pm
1:30pm-2:30pm AWG 'Birds of a Feather' discussion sessions
Access Working Group members will meet as a single group or in small groups to discuss key challenges and/or initiatives etc. they need to/plan to tackle in the next year and identify any possible areas they'd like IIPC help/involvement. It will be self organized as Helen & Kris will be in the SC meeting.
2:30pm BREAK
AWG meetings conclude for the day following the break.

Crowdsourcing workshop
Lead by Trevor Owens, Library of Congress

The web is a social platform, built by people and organizations for people and organizations. Web archives are, to all extent and purposes, no different. Yet the disparity between the number of people involved in developing the web, and the number of people involved in archiving the web, is enormous. This proposal seeks to investigate how crowdsourcing web archiving activities may begin to redress that balance and increase the amount of manpower available to throughout all stages of the web archiving workflow in member institutions.

• Session 1 on crowdsourcing for cultural heritage (summarizing discussion paper)
• Session 2 presenting a generic model around which to frame discussions (either the generic workflow model developed by IIPC DPWG in 2009 or the digital content & crowdsourcing lifecycle model (Oomen & Aroyo, 2011)
• Session 3 with breakout groups representing different types of web archive collections, developing, enhancing, adding to or ruling out ideas floated in discussion paper, followed by feedback
• Session 4 group brainstorm on common issues or themes, barriers to implementation, critical success factors.           

Participation will be open to all members, though capped at 24.

Harvesting and Preserving the Future Web
Facilitated by Kris Carpenter, Internet Archive

The Web's initial content model was the document. Great progress has been made in collecting and preserving this Web for future scholars. The Web is evolving to a content model that is a programming environment with services. This meeting's topic is the much more difficult problem of collecting and preserving this future Web. To frame ideas and thoughts, we are bringing together people working on various aspects of this, such as collecting AJAX and HTML5, synchronizing Web resources, and preserving Web services such as scientific workflows, together with institutions with an interest in preserving the future Web. The goal from this meeting is to begin to scope the challenges.

Harvesting Working Group
Status of the HWG (Kristinn Sigurðsson)
Follow up on items from last meeting (Kristinn Sigurðsson)
Browsers as crawlers (David Rapin)
DeDuplication (Youssef Eldakar)
WARCs (Kristinn Sigurðsson)
Other topics, general discussion

Heritrix User Group

• Introductions
• Heritrix 3 training (emphasis on advance training)
• Best Practice Birds of a Feather discussions (small groups)
• Closing Thoughts/Recommendations for Future Meetings

ISO workshop on metrics and quality
Lead by Dr. Clément Oury, Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France)

The goal of the workshop is to present and discuss the main outcomes of the report: the statistics and quality indicators chosen to evaluate collection development, collection characterization, collection access and usage, collection preservation, and web archiving costs. The workshop will provide as illustrations real-case institution examples: members of the WG will present how they gather and use the proposed indicators. This workshop is open to all kind of institutions. Attendees are encouraged to present their own experiences and bring examples of commonly used indicators within their institution.

Legal Roundtable
Web archivists meet lawyers: how can legislation (or lack thereof) encourage or limit your web archiving program?

This roundtable will facilitate an open discussion between web archivists, expert practitioners and lawyers in order to discuss and compare the impact of international and national legislations and policies on web archiving activities. This discussion is open to all participants who have some background, or interest in, legal matters and want to raise practical or prospective questions as to the impact of legislation on their day-to-day work and advocacy efforts to promote web archiving. What are the current challenges and how can IIPC help?

Netarchive Workshop
NetarchiveSuite is a complete web archiving open source software package. It gives the ability to prepare, schedule, run and monitor harvests of websites. It also enables to perform quality assurance and preserve harvested content. See more information on:http://netarchive.dk/suite/ and https://sbforge.org/jira/browse/NAS.

NetarchiveSuite is currently developed for production purposes and maintained by the NetarchiveSuite community, which includes the following institutions: Netarkivet.dk (State and University Library in Aarhus and The Royal Library in Copenhagen), Denmark, the National Library of France (BnF), and the National Library of Austria (ONB).

Preservation Working Group
Status updates of the current work packages and activities. Will also include a demo of JHONAS-TO BE RECORDED probably using webex.
- Discussion on strategies for preservation for web archiving
- What is the current status on this topic in each institution?
- Is there an existing example of a relevant obsolete file format?
- How can we deal with preservation issues on basis of current used tools and systems?
- Do we need a common pilot project?
New work packages and activities
- What are planned activities in each institutions in this area?
- In which areas would it be helpful to work together?

Steering Committee
Will be disseminated to members by separate correspondence

Web Lifecycle Management
Will discuss the web archiving lifecycle in terms of tools and workflow, how it is evolving and what that means for our infrastructure and architectures. We will also discuss how spontaneous archiving of world events affect the "typical" lifecycle for web archiving.

UDFR
The meeting is open to all interested members of the preservation community; space is limited, however, and prior registration is required. The meeting will include technical presentations on the UDFR architecture and code walkthroughs of the major components of its open source technology stack, including OntoWiki, RDFAuthor, Virtuoso, Zend, PHP, Apache, and Noid; code walk-throughs; and a review of the four main ontological models: OntoWiki system configuration, UDFR user profiles, UDFR class and property ontology, and UDFR data.

Contact

Abigail Potter, IIPC Communications Officer