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The Future of the Past of the Web

Title:: The Future of the Past of the Web
When:: 07/10/2011 00:10 00:16
Where:: The British Library Conference Centre - London
Category:: Co-sponsored event (all welcome, registration essential)

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The Future of the Past of the Web

07/10/2011 at the The British Library Conference Centre, London

The Web expands at an astonishing rate. Statistics suggest that more than 70 new domains are registered and more than 500,000 documents are added to the web every minute. This rapid expansion continues to challenge those charged with preserving an effective memory of the web.

Memory institutions – in particular national libraries and archives – have been central to web archiving. Since the mid 1990s, they have captured a dynamic and highly distributed snapshot of the web as it evolved. These growing web archives provide an untapped resource for creativity, innovation and enterprise. The web archiving community has grown as more institutions establish their own web archiving programmes. Universities and researchers are also taking part in this effort and commercial archiving services have started to appear.

Use and impact of web archives are under-explored topics in discussions about web archiving. Alternative modes of access and new types of exploitation mean that the time is ripe for another examination of how the web archive collections are being used and what opportunities they open up.

Therefore, the Joint Information Systems Committee, The British Library and the Digital Preservation Coalition invite you to attend their 3rd joint web archiving workshop on 7th of October, at the British Library Conference Centre. The previous 2 workshops were held in 2006 and 2009.

The workshop has a programme of invited talks and discussion panels by UK and international speakers, featuring use cases of web archives and exciting new developments. Web archives are no longer just individual web pages for reference but also aggregated datasets with inherent properties which can be exploited for many new possibilities. Access to archived web data in bulk, and machine-to-machine interaction are definitely the new trends!

Who should come?

Curators, librarians, archivists interested in the preservation of web resources
Organisations that are engaged in web archiving and digital preservation
Researchers who depend on access to stable web resources for their research
Web developers and content creators who value their content
Information managers with responsibility for legal compliance

Registration

Places are FREE but are strictly limited and should be booked at the latest before 1200 on Friday 30^th September 2011. Priority will be given to DPC members. For details on how to become a DPC member s ee here. There will be a £50.00 no show/cancellation fee if you do not notify us within one full week of the event date. Registration includes the costs of lunches and refreshments during the day

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Provisional Programme

1030 Registration and Coffee

1100 Welcome and introductions (William Kilbride, DPC)

1105 Key note (Herbert van der Sompel, The Memento Project)

Thematic Session: Using Web Archives (chair Helen Hockx-Yu, British Library)

1140 Web Archiving: the state of the Art and the Future - Eric Meyer, Oxford Internet Institute

1200 Enhancing Access to Web Archives: Web Continuity at the National Archives - Amanda Spencer and Tom Storrar, The National Archives

1220 Case study: Researchers and the UK Web Archive Project- Peter Webster, Institute of Historical Research

1240 Lunch

Thematic session: Emerging Trends (chair Neil Grindley, JISC)

1325 Analytical Access to the UK Web Archive - Maureen Pennock and Lewis Crawford (British Library)

1340 Emerging Trends and new developments at the Internet Archive - Kris Carpenter, Internet Archive

1355 Archiving Community Memory: the Arcomem project - Wim Peters (TBC)

1410 BlogForever project - Richard Davis and Ed Pinsent ULCC

1425 Website Archiving from Cloud Testing – Phil Smith and Matt Rees

1440 Q&A (chaired by Neil Grindley)

1500 Coffee

1530 Panel session and discussion: what is to be done, why and by whom? (chaired by William Kilbride)

1630 Close

Following the event on Twitter

Participants will be encouraged to tweet using the #fpw11 hashtag to create a live twitter feed from the event.

Venue

Venue:: The British Library Conference Centre
Street:: 96 Euston Road
ZIP:: NW1 2DB
City:: London
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Conferences and Events at the British Library

With its central London location, next to St Pancras International (Eurostar terminal), the British Library is within easy walking distance of Euston, King's Cross railway stations and six tube lines, placing it at the heart of the UK and European transportation network.

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-1 #1 2011-09-23 21:13

Will the content be made available to those of us unable to get to the UK, or is there a dial-in/remote attendee option you might consider?

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+2 #2 2011-09-24 11:45

HI Gail, three things that might help. We will be using the hashtag #fpw11 from the conference and 33 of the delegates have promised to tweet from the event so it should be quite active. We'll also be compiling a report from the day ourselves with the ppts and will be publishing a report in Ariadne. Hope this helps.

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