2025 General Assembly

This session focuses on the new framework defining IIPC’s role in sustaining web archiving tools for its membership, developed as part of the Strategic Action Plan 2026 and the renewal of the Consortium Agreement.

Discussion leaders:

• Ben O’Brien, National Library of New Zealand
• Gil Hoggarth, British Library
• Youssef Eldakar, Bibliotheca Alexandrina
• Kristinn Sigurðsson, National and University Library of Iceland
• Jeffrey van der Hoeven, National Library of the Netherlands
• Bjarne Andersen, Royal Danish Library

Chaired by: Former CDG Co-Chair Nicola Bingham, British Library and current CDG Co-Chair Shereen Tay, National Library Board Singapore

AGENDA:

• General updates
  
• Collection presentations:
  • Paris Olympics – Helena Byrne, British Library
    
  • Street Art – Ricardo Basílio, Arquivo.pt and Miranda Siler, Columbia University Libraries
    
  • War in Ukraine – Anaïs Crinière-Boizet and Vladimir Tybin, National Library of France
    
• Discussions:
  • Survey introduction and results
    
  • Future collections policies
    
  • Potential World War II anniversary and Southeast Asia collections
    
• Introduction and handover to new co-chairs Anaïs Crinière-Boizet, National Library of France and Melissa Wertheimer, Library of Congress
  

Chaired by RWG Co-Chairs Ben O’Brien, National Library of New Zealand, Jon Carlstedt Tønnessen, National Library of Norway, and Olga Holownia, IIPC

AGENDA:

• Introduction to RWG
  
• Presentations:
  • The WebData Project – Magnus Birkenes, National Library of Norway
    
  • There and Back Again: the WOD (Whole-of-Domain)’s Tale – Ben O’Brien, National Library of New Zealand
    
  • The Common Crawl’s Datasets – Sebastian Nagel, Common Crawl Foundation
    
• Wrap-up
  

Chaired by: TWG Co-Chair Claire Newing, The National Archives, UK

This 60-minute session focuses on introducing the work and goals of the IIPC Training Working Group to interested newcomers.

Chaired by: Sara Aubry, National Library of France

This session explores members’ expertise and experiences in performing national domain crawls with Heritrix. Members are asked to 1) share their challenges with domain crawls, 2) discuss possible solutions, and 3) establish best practices with specific tips and tricks for others to try.

Presentations:

• Fighting 404s – Sara Aubry, National Library of France
  
• Annual national domain crawl using AWS – Gil Hoggarth, British Library
  
• Seedlist: approach emphasis and scope – Tom Smyth, Library and Archives Canada
  
• Effective handling of byte limits – Thomas Smedebøl, Royal Danish Library
  
• Use of sitemaps in domain crawls – Kristinn Sigurðsson, National and University Library of Iceland
  
• Browser-assisted Heritrix – Alex Dempsey, Internet Archive
  
• Assessing crawl completeness – Thom Vaughan, Common Crawl Foundation

Claire Newing¹, Lauren Baker², Kody Willis³

1: The National Archives (UK), United Kingdom; 2: Library of Congress, United States of America; 3: Internet Archive, United States of America

The session will be aimed at any conference attendees who wish to submit a case study on any topic relevant to web archiving. Suggested topics include: a process/workflow which works well; a decision rubric for selection; a method developed for capturing a specific type of content; building specialist search queries; a successful tool used for training. To support the creation of case studies during the session and beyond, participants will be provided a case study template and a sample completed case study for reference.

The overall outcome will be a case study collection open to all members to be launched shortly after the conference with additional case studies being added on an ongoing basis.