Archiving News: IIPC-IFLA News Media Section Workshop

The IFLA News Media and International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) are teaming up again to host a series of workshops focusing on archiving news media. As most news is now published online, there is a growing interest to better understand the current best practices in web archiving. The main goal of our workshops is to examine and compare how organizations of varying sizes tackle this topic and to learn from their collective experiences. Through presentations and informal discussions, we will showcase diverse organizational approaches to archiving news media, including audiovisual content and social media, highlight key challenges, and explore innovative solutions. 

Our initial event on December 4 will feature a short introduction to the work of IIPC and IFLA News Media Section as well as three use cases, and will help determine the specific topics of interest for future workshops based on community feedback. We invite you to stay tuned for information about subsequent events that will take place in the first quarter of 2025.

The workshop will be moderated by Ana Krahmer (Director, Digital Newspaper Unit) of the University of North Texas Libraries.

AGENDA

10:00-10:15 

Introduction to IFLA News Media section with Karolina Holub, National and University Library in Zagreb and introduction to IIPC with Olga Holownia, IIPC

10:15-10:30 

Nola N’Diaye, Deputy Head of the Digital Legal Deposit Department at the National Library of France (BnF) will discuss their work in news media archiving.

10:30-10:45 

Örn Hrafnkelsson, Director of the National Collections and Digital Conversion Department, National and University Library of Iceland, will provide an overview of the library’s openly available web archive (vefsafn.is) and collection of the newspapers and periodicals of the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Iceland (timarit.is).

10:45-11:00

Abbie Grotke, Head of the Web Archiving Section, Library of Congress will explain LC’s thematic approach to web archiving as well as other more targeted approaches and provide a background on how that has impacted capturing news media in LC’s collections.

11:00-11:25

Q&A with all speakers

11:25-11:30

Wrap-up