WADL 2015 — Web Archiving and Digital Libraries
(http://dlib.vt.edu/WADL2015)
(a JCDL 2015 (http://www.jcdl2015.org), Knoxville TN; 6/24-25 Workshop)
June 24 Activities (single track)
2:30-3:00 opening, introductions
3-3:30 panel: technical challenges
3:30-4 panel: organization & institutional social perspectives
4-4:30 demonstrations
4:30-5:30 poster session: all attendees are encouraged to bring a poster
June 25 Activities (single track)
8-9 registration, continental breakfast
9-9:30 lightening talks (e.g., on posters, demonstrations)
9:30-10:30 selected presentations
10:30-11 break
11-12 selected presentations
12-1 plenary discussion: future directions and collaboration
Submissions (please provide contact and supporting info in <= 1 page):
EasyChair submission page
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wadl2015
Due April 18; Notification will be by May 8. Categories are:
Poster + lightening talk
Demonstration + lightening talk
15 min. meeting/conference report related to WADL, including Q&A
20 min. presentation + 10 min. Q&A
30 min. panel with interactive plenary discussion
Description:
This will explore the integration of web archiving and digital
libraries, over the complete life cycle: creation/authoring, uploading/
publishing in the Web, . . .
It will cover all topics of interest, including but not limited to:
- Archiving (events)
- Big data
- Classification
- Community building
- Crawling (focused)
- Curation, quality control
- Databases / collections
- Discovery
- Extraction & analysis
- Filling gaps
- Globalization, languages
- Linking archives
- Metadata
- Mobile devices
- Network science
- Preservation
- Resource description
- Social sciences
- Standards, protocols
- Systems, tools
- Tweet connections
Objectives:
- to build the community of people integrating web archiving & DLs
- to help attendees learn about useful methods, systems, and software
- to help chart future research and improved practice in this area
- to promote synergistic efforts including collaborative projects, proposals
- to produce an archival publication that will help advance technology
and practice
- to spot work for a planned journal special issue, in Springer’s IJDL:
http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/799
Workshop Co-chairs:
- Chair, Edward A. Fox, Professor and Director Digital Library Research
Laboratory, Virginia Tech, fox@vt.edu, http://fox.cs.vt.edu, 540-231-5113
- Co-chair, Zhiwu Xie, zhiwuxie@vt.edu, Associate Professor and Technology
Development Librarian, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship,
University Libraries, Virginia Tech, 540-231-4453
Organizing Committee:
Jefferson Bailey, Internet Archive, jefferson@archive.org
Prashant Chandrasekar, Virginia Tech, peecee@vt.edu
Mohamed Magdy Farig, Virginia Tech, mmagdy@vt.edu
Vinay Goel, Internet Archive, vinay@archive.org
Martin Klein, UCLA, mklein@library.ucla.edu
Frank McCown, Harding University, fmccown@harding.edu
Michael Nelson, Old Dominion Univ., mln@cs.odu.edu
Andreas Rauber, TU Vienna, rauber@ifs.tuwien.ac.at
Matthew Weber, Rutgers, matthew.weber@rutgers.edu
Closely related event and results:
- Working with Internet Archives for Research (WIRE 2014) NSF workshop,
17-18 June 2014, Cambridge, MA – see http://wp.comminfo.rutgers.edu/nsfia/
- Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL’13), 7/25-26, at JCDL 2013, see
http://www.ctrnet.net/sites/default/files/JCDL2013WorkshopWebArchiving20130603.pdf
and report in SIGIR Forum http://sigir.org/files/forum/2013D/p128.pdf
- Web Archive Globalization Workshop, WAG 2011 – see
http://cs.harding.edu/wag2011/, with 4 organizers plus 5 presenters
and about 20 participants, held in Ottawa after JCDL 2011 (June 16-17)
- Ongoing work by attendees in this area, growth in collaborative activity
involving the Internet Archive, and specific community building successes
like the Web Archive Cooperative – see http://infolab.stanford.edu/wac/
- Annual meetings of the International Internet Preservation Consortium
(IIPC), partner meetings of the Internet Archive (Archive-It), and ten
workshops held with ECDL/TPDL: International Web Archiving Workshop
(IWAW), 2001-2010
