IWAW Proceedings online
IWAW09 took take place the 30th of September and 1st of October 2009, in conjunction with ECDL in Corfu (Greece). The proceedings are now available online.
Around 40 participants attended IWAW2009, which took place on Sep. 30 / Oct. 1 2009, in conjunction with ECDL in Corfu (Greece). The workshop provided a comprehensive overview on active research and practice on the preservation of the Web. This year’s workshop also addressed several new approaches and research (from virtual worlds preservation to temporal dimension of Web Archives) as well as practical issues addressed by Archiving institutions, specifically with respect to managing the storage of large volumes of digital material. In this context, a special Session was devoted to the WARC storage format, which has been accepted as a new ISO standard (ISO 28500:2009), as well as emerging tool support to handle these container objects. In general, scalability issues and managing large-volume crawls were topics of intensive discussions, based on the increasing body of experience available in numerous institutions by now, running a series of Web archiving activities in a range of different configurations.
Talk about “Turning pure Web Page Storages into Living Web Archives” at Cultural Heritage on line
The LiWA applications and its R&D challenges will be presented at the Conference “Cultural Heritage on line Empowering users: an active role for user communities” at Florence, Italy on the 15th and 16th of December, 2009
Web content plays an increasingly important role in the knowledge-based society, and the preservation and long-term accessibility of Web history has high value (e.g., for scholarly studies, market analyses, intellectual property disputes, etc.). There is strongly growing interest in its preservation by libraries and archival organizations as well as emerging industrial services. Web content characteristics (high dynamics, volatility, contributor and format variety) make adequate Web archiving a challenge.
LiWA will look beyond the pure “freezing” of Web content snapshots for a long time, transforming pure snapshot storage into a “Living” Web Archive. In order to create Living Web Archives, the LiWA project will address R&D challenges in the three areas: Archive Fidelity, Archive coherence and Archive interpretability. The results of the project will be demonstrated within two application scenarios namely “Streaming Archive” and “Social Web Archive”. The Streaming Archive application will showcase the building of an audio-visual Web archive and how audio and video broadcast related web information can be preserved. The Social Web application will demonstrate how web archives can capture the dynamics and the different types of user interaction of the social web.
Talk “From Web page storages to Living Web Archive” at London
Dr. Thomas Risse (L3S) will give a talk at the “JISC, the DPC and the UK Web Archiving Consortium Workshop”, at the The British Library Conference Centre in London, on July 21st.
The paper on “From Web page storages to Living Web Archive” will be presented by Dr. Thomas Risse, at the JISC, the DPC and the UK Web Archiving Consortium Workshop which will take place at The British Library Conference Centre in London, on July 21st.
Half day session on LiWA during IWAW
A dedicated session took place during the 8th International Web Archiving Workshop
Over 70 web archivists and researchers in this domain attended the 8th edition of IWAW during which a full session was dedicated to present research objectives and early results from LiWA.
Lots of questions and interest from the audience, which is good sign for us. See below links to presentations from this session:
Web Spam: a Survey with Vision for the Archivist
Andras Benczur, David Siklosi, Jacint Szabo, Istvan Biro, Zsolt Fekete, Miklos Kurucz, Attila Pereszlenyi, Simon Racz, Adrienn Szabo (paper, presentation)
Terminology Evolution in Web Archiving: Open Issues
Nina Tahmasebi, Tereza Iofciu, Thomas Risse, Claudia Niederée, Wolf Siberski (paper,presentation)
Liwa Architecture
Radu Pop, Wolf Siberski, Mark Williamson (presentation)
“Catch me if you can”. Temporal Coherence of Web Archives
Marc Spaniol (presentation)
The Challenge of Dynamic Links
Mark Williamson (presentation)
