CFP: WADL 2015 (Web Archiving and Digital Libraries) - Knoxville, TN June 24-25, 2015

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