WAC 2024 Program

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Watch WAC2024 recordings

Thursday, 25 April 2024

*all times in CEST
10:00am OPENING REMARKS: Isabelle Nyffenegger, National Library of France & Mileva Stupar, National Institute Audiovisual
recording
10:15am KEYNOTE: Here Ya Free! Crossed Views on Skyblog, the French Pioneer of Digital Social Networks
Pierre Bellanger1, Pauline Ferrari2, Jerôme Thièvre3, Sara Aubry4
1: Skyrock Radio, 2: Freelance journalist, 3: National Institute Audiovisual, 4: National Library of France
recording
Introduced and chaired by Emmanuelle Bermès, Ecole nationale des chartes
11:15am BREAK
11:20am

SESSION #1: AI & Machine Learning
Chair: Andrea Goethals, National Library of New Zealand
11:00am - 11:20am
Re-imagining Large-Scale Search & Discovery for the Library of Congress’s .gov Holdings
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Benjamin Lee
Library of Congress, United States of America


11:20am - 11:40am
Extending Classification Models with Bibliographic Metadata: Datasets and Results
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Mark Phillips1, Cornelia Caragea2, Seo Yeon Park2, Praneeth Rikka1, Saran Pandi2
1: University of North Texas, United States of America; 2: University of Illinois Chicago, United States of America


11:40am - 12:00pm
Utilizing Large Language Models for Semantic Search and Summarization of International Television News Archives
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Sawood Alam1, Mark Graham1, Roger Macdonald1, Kalev Leetaru2
1: Internet Archive, United States of America; 2: GDELT Project, United States of America


12:00am - 12:20pm
MeshWARC: Exploring the Semantic Space of the Web Archive
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Amr Sheta2, Mohab Yousry2, Youssef Eldakar1
1: Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt; 2: Alexandria University, Egypt

SESSION #2: Unique Content
Chair: Meghan Lyon, Library of Congress
11:00am - 11:20am
80 Thousand Pages On Street Art: Exploring Techniques To Build Thematic Collections
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Ricardo Basílio
Arquivo.pt, Portugal


11:20am - 11:40am
Saving Ads: Assessing and Improving Web Archives’ Holdings of Online Advertisements
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Christopher Rauch1, Mat Kelly1, Alexander Poole1, Michele C Weigle2, Michael L Nelson2, Travis Reid2
1: Drexel Univesity, United States of America; 2: Old Dominion University, United States of America


11:40am - 12:00pm
Working Together to Capture, Preserve and Provide Access to Digital Artworks
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Claire Newing1, Tom Storrar1, Patricia Falcao2, Sarah Haylett2, Jane Kennedy2
1: The National Archives, United Kingdom; 2: Tate, United Kingdom


12:00pm - 12:20pm
Put it Back! Archived Memes in Context
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Valérie Schafer
University of Luxembourg

WORKSHOP #5: Unlocking Access: Navigating Paywalls and Ensuring Quality in Web Crawling (Behind Paywall Websites - Crawl, QA & More)
11:00am - 12:20pm

Anders Klindt Myrvoll1, Thomas Martin Elkjær Smedebøl1, Samuli Sairanen2, Joel Nieminen2, Antares Reich3, László Tóth4
1: Royal Danish Library; 2: National Library of Finland; 3: Austrian National Library; 4: National Library of Luxembourg

12:40pm LUNCH
1:40pm

SESSION #3: Contextual
Chair: Moises Rockembach, University of Coimbra
1:40pm - 2:00pm
Averting the “Digital Dark Age”: The Digital Preservation Moment and the Birth of Modern Web Archiving, 1994-1996
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Ian Milligan
University of Waterloo, Canada


2:00pm - 2:20pm
The Form Of Websites: Studying The Formal Development Of Websites, The Case Of Professional Danish Football Clubs 1996-2021
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Niels Brügger
Aarhus University, Denmark


2:20pm - 2:40pm
Challenges of Putting Web Archives in a Comprehensive Context: the Case of Vdl.lu
recording 

Carmen Noguera
University of Luxembourg

 

SESSION #4: Delivery & Access
Chair: Lauren Ko, University of North Texas Libraries
1:40pm - 2:00pm
Renascer Project Brings Back Old Websites at Arquivo.pt
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Ricardo Basílio
Arquivo.pt, Portugal


2:00pm - 2:20pm
Preserving the Uncrawlable: Serving the Server
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Andrew McDonnell
University of Kentucky, United States of America


2:20pm - 2:40pm
Lost and Found in Cyberspace: Reconstructing MultiTorg
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Jon Carlstedt Tønnessen
National Library of Norway


2:40pm - 3:00pm
Towards Multi-Layered Access with Automatic Classification
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Jon Carlstedt Tønnessen, Thomas Langvann
National Library of Norway

WORKSHOP #6: Browser-Based Crawling For All: Introduction to Quality Assurance with Browsertrix Cloud
1:40pm - 3:00pm
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Andrew Jackson1, Anders Klindt Myrvoll2, Ilya Kreymer3, Tessa Walsh4, Henry Wilkinson4
1: Digital Preservation Coalition, United Kingdom; 2: Royal Danish Library; 3: Webrecorder, United States of America; 4: Webrecorder, Canada

3:00pm BREAK
3:30pm

SESSION #5: Collaborations
Chair: Helena Byrne, The British Library
3:30pm - 3:50pm
LGBT+ and Religion: Queering Web Archive Research
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Jesper Verhoef
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands


3:50pm - 4:10pm
Enter The Trading Zone: When Web Archivists And Researchers Meet To Explore Transnational Events In Archived Web Collections
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Susan Aasman1, Anat Ben-David2, Niels Brügger3
1: University of Groningen, The Netherlands; 2: Open University of Israel; 3: Aarhus University, Denmark


4:10pm - 4:30pm
Web Archiving, Open Access, & Multi-Custodialism
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Monica Westin1, Jefferson Bailey2
1: Internet Archive; 2: United Kingdom; Internet Archive, United States of America

SESSION #6: Legal & Ethical
Chair: Jeffrey van der Hoeven, National Library of the Netherlands
3:30pm - 3:50pm
Intellectual Property & Privacy Concerns of Web Harvesting in the EU
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Anastasia Nefeli Vidaki
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium


3:50pm - 4:10pm
DSM to the Rescue? Implications of the new EU Copyright Directive for Social Media Archiving: the Case of the Belgian Transposition and the Cultural Heritage Archives in Flanders
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Ellen Van Keer
meemoo, Belgium


4:10pm - 4:30pm
Digital Legal Deposit Beyond the Web
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Vladimir Tybin
National Library of France

PANEL #1: “Can we capture this?”: Assessing Website Archivability Beyond Trial and Error
Chair: Martin Klein, Los Alamos National Laboratory
3:30pm - 4:30pm
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Meghan Lyon1, Calum Wrench2, Tom Storrar3, Nicholas Taylor4
1: Library of Congress, United States of America; 2: MirrorWeb, United Kingdom; 3: The National Archives, United Kingdom; 4: Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States of America

4:30pm BREAK
4:40pm

LIGHTNING TALKS
Chair: Martin Klein, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Generative AI In Streamlining Web Archiving Workflows
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Lok Hei Lui
University of Toronto, Canada


Scaling Web Archiving: The Challenges of Deduplication
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Alex Dempsey
Internet Archive, United States of America


WARC-ing Legacy Archived Web Sites
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Annabel Walz
Archive of Social Democracy (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung), Germany


Describing Collections with Datasheets for Datasets
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Emily Maemura1, Helena Byrne2
1: University of Illinois, United States of America; 2: British Library, United Kingdom


Visualizing the Web History of the Pandemic COVID-19 Outbreak In México: Last Stage
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Carolina Silva Bretón
National Library of México / Bibliographical Research Institute, Mexico


Towards A Formal Registry Of Web Archives For Persistent And Sustainable Identification
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Eld Zierau1, Jon Tonnessen2, Anders Myrvoll1
1: Royal Danish Library; 2: National Library of Norway


Digital Storytelling: Creating An Exhibition of Web-born and Mobile Narratives
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Ian Cooke, Giulia Carla Rossi
British Library, United Kingdom

5:20pm

DROP-IN TALKS
Chair: Martin Klein, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Web Archives in Documenting AI History
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Juliette Benguigui
Ecole nationale des chartes, France


Twenty-year Journey of the Croatian Web Archive (HAW): Key Milestones
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Inge Rudomino
National and University Library in Zagreb, Croatia


ARK Persistent Identifier Use Cases in Web Archiving
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John Kunze
ARK Alliance and Ronin Institute, United States of America


Web Archiving Update from KBR - Belgium
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Friedel Geeraert
KBR, Belgium


Dealing with Donors of Web Archives: Challenges and Advice
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Lisa Lawlis
Archives and Special Collections, Western University, Canada


History of Web Archive at UNHCR
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Ndahambelela Hertha IIPINGE
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Switzerland


Documenting the Smithsonian on the Web in 2020
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Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, United States of America


Bringing Web Archive to an Informational Commodity: The Standards Path
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Gregory Miura
Université Bretagne Occidentale / ISO, France


Why Web Archive Performing Arts?
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Melissa Wertheimer
Library of Congress, United States of America


A Comparative Study on ChatGPT: Generated vs. Manual Metadata Creation for Government Reports
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Peter Chan
Stanford University, United States of America

5:30pm

POSTER SESSION #1

Many Hands Make Light(er) Work: Collaborative Web Lifecycle Management
Sara Day Thomson, Alice Austin, Stratos Filalithis, Bruce Darby
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom


How to Implement The Long-term Preservation of the Web? The Journey of the Publications Office of The European Union
Corinne Frappart
Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg


Digital Resources – Slovak Web Archive in Context with the New Legislation
poster
Jana Matúšková, Peter Hausleitner
University Library in Bratislava, Slovak Republic


Why WARCs Are Complex But Not Messy
Iris Geldermans
National Library of the Netherlands


Report on the Scholarly Use of Web Archives Across Ireland: The Past, Present & Future(s)
poster
Helena Byrne1, Sharon Healy2
1: British Library, United Kingdom; 2: Independent Researcher, Ireland


Blog to Bytes: Exploring the UK Web Archive’s Blog Posts Through Text Analysis
poster
Helena Byrne, Carlos Lelkes-Raugal, Joan Francis
British Library, United Kingdom


Podcasts Collection at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France: From Experimentation to the Implementation of a Functional Harvest
poster
Nola N'Diaye, Clara Wiatrowski
National Library of France

7:00pm

DINNER

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