The 2023 IIPC Web Archiving Conference: Resilience and Renewal issued a call for proposals, open until November 1st, 2022. The conference itself will have in-person and online days. Presentation categories for the in-person days include 20-minute presentations, 60-minute panels, posters and demos (with accompanying 5-minute lightning talks), workshops, and tutorials. Online presentation categories include 20-minute pre-recorded talks with live Q&A, and 45-minute panels. The in-person conference dates are May 11-12, 2023. The CFP invites presentations from seven different catgeories:
ACCESS
- New possibilities for search and discovery
- Methods of adding value to access
- Audiovisual access and tools
- Ethics for access and use of web archives
- Integrating web archiving into digital collections: cataloging, metadata, federated search
COLLECTIONS
- Blurring boundaries between web archives and other digital collections
- Reuse of web archived materials for other born-digital collections
- Ethical collecting of the web
- Using web archiving for non-web archiving workflows, such as routine acquisitions
- The paper web: traces of web history in paper collections of libraries and archives
COMMUNITY
- Growing our community by helping others archive the web
- Marketing web archive collections
- Collaborating with content creators
- Building communities around standards
- Addressing indigenous data sovereignty
PROGRAM OPERATIONS
- Running web archives: best practices, lessons learned, agile project management
- Labor in web archiving: staffing, onboarding, training, benchmark for skills
- Supporting cross-disciplinarity of web archiving teams
- Institutional workflows
RESEARCH
- Providing tools for researchers
- Social media archiving and data for researcher access
- Implications of web archive quality on research
- Lessons learned from collaborative projects with researchers
- Best practices for data management and workflows
SUSTAINABILITY
- Sustainability of web archiving
- Sustaining access through digital preservation strategies
- Resources for tool development and maintenance
- Working toward a greener web and web archive
- Developing new WARC standards for screenshots, embedded media, and more
TOOLS
- Platformification: building tools to handle the appification of the open web
- Developing tools together through open source
- More than code: supporting tool development by non-developers
- Supporting and growing the technical communities around web archiving tools
- Machine learning
- Leveraging tools of the past to inform new tool development and tools-based workflows
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