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Session Overview
Location: Målstova (upstairs)
1 level up from ground floor
Date: Tuesday, 08/Apr/2025
9:40am
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9:50am
Opening Remarks
Location: Målstova (upstairs)
9:50am
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10:00am
Chair Address
Location: Målstova (upstairs)
10:00am
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10:45am
IIPC Strategic Plan 2026-2030
Location: Målstova (upstairs)
11:15am
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12:45pm
Framework for Tools Sustainability
Location: Målstova (upstairs)
2:00pm
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3:30pm
Research Working Group Meeting
Location: Målstova (upstairs)
4:00pm
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5:30pm
Crawling National Domain: Towards Best Practices
Location: Målstova (upstairs)
Date: Wednesday, 09/Apr/2025
9:40am
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9:50am
Opening Remarks
Location: Målstova (upstairs)
Streamed to Store Auditorium.
9:50am
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10:45am
Opening Keynote: Libraries, Copyright, and Language Models
Location: Målstova (upstairs)
Chair: Andrew Jackson, Digital Preservation Coalition
Streamed to Store Auditorium.
10:55am
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11:00am
LIGHTNING TALK SESSION 1: INTRODUCTION
Location: Målstova (upstairs)
Chair: Ben Els, National Library of Luxembourg
11:00am
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11:25am
LIGHTNING TALK SESSION 1
Location: Målstova (upstairs)
Chair: Ben Els, National Library of Luxembourg
 
11:00am - 11:05am

Strategies and Challenges in the Preservation of Mexico’s Web Heritage: First Steps

Carolina Silva Bretón

National Library of Mexico, Mexico



11:05am - 11:10am

Arquivo.pt Toolkit for Web Archiving

Daniel Gomes

Arquivo.pt, Portugal



11:10am - 11:15am

Tracking the Political Representations of Life: Methodological Challenges of Exploring the BnF Web Archives

Guillaume Levrier1,2, Dorothée Benhamou-Suesser2

1: Centre de recherches politiques de Sciences Po (CEVIPOF, CNRS), France; 2: Bibliothèque nationale de France, France



11:15am - 11:20am

Collaborative Curatorial Approaches of the Czech Web Archive Using the Example of Thematic Literary Collections

Marie Haškovcová

National Library of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic

11:55am
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1:00pm
PANEL #01: Engaging Audiences
Location: Målstova (upstairs)
Chair: Eveline Vlassenroot, University of Ghent
 

Beyond Preservation: Engaging Audiences and Researchers with Web Archives

Eveline Vlassenroot1, Peter Mechant1, Friedel Geeraert2, Christina Vandendyck2, Cui Cui3,4, Beatrice Cannelli4, Anders Klindt Myrvoll5, Andrea Kocsis6

1: University of Ghent, Belgium; 2: KBR - Royal Library of Belgium, Belgium; 3: University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; 4: Bodleian Libraries, United Kingdom; 5: Royal Danish Library, Denmark; 6: National Library of Scotland, United Kingdom

2:05pm
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3:40pm
SESSION #02: Crawling Tools
Location: Målstova (upstairs)
Chair: László Tóth, National Library of Luxembourg
 
2:05pm - 2:25pm

Lessons Learned Building a Crawler From Scratch: The Development and Implementation of Veidemann

Marius André Elsfjordstrand Beck

National Library of Norway, Norway



2:25pm - 2:45pm

Experiences of Using in-House Developed Collecting Tool ELK

Lauri Ojanen

National Library of Finland, Finland



2:45pm - 3:05pm

Better Together: Building a Scalable Multi-Crawler Web Harvesting Toolkit

Alex Dempsey, Adam Miller, Kyrie Whitsett

Internet Archive, United States of America



3:05pm - 3:25pm

Lowering Barriers to Use, Crawling, and Curation: Recent Browsertrix Developments

Tessa Walsh, Ilya Kreymer

Webrecorder, United States of America

4:10pm
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4:20pm
POSTER SLAM INTRO
Location: Målstova (upstairs)
Chair: Olga Holownia, IIPC
Streamed to Store Auditorium.
4:20pm
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4:40pm
POSTER SLAM
Location: Målstova (upstairs)
Chair: Olga Holownia, IIPC
Streamed to Store Auditorium.
 
4:20pm - 4:21pm

‘We Are Now Entering the Pre-election Period’: Experimental Twitter Capture at The National Archives

Jake Bickford

The National Archives (UK), United Kingdom



4:21pm - 4:22pm

The BnF DataLab Services and Tools for Researchers Working on Web Archives

Sara Aubry, Dorothée Benhamou-Suesser

Bibliothèque nationale de France, France



4:22pm - 4:23pm

Designing Art Student Web Archives

Katherine Martinez

The New School, United States of America



4:23pm - 4:24pm

Next Steps Towards A Formal Registry Of Web Archives For Persistent And Sustainable Identification

Eld Zierau

Royal Danish Library, Denmark



4:24pm - 4:25pm

Using Web Archives to Construct the History of an Academic Field

Tegan Pyke

University of Bergen, Norway



4:25pm - 4:26pm

Consortium on Electronic Literature (CELL)

Hannah Ackermans

University of Bergen, Norway



4:26pm - 4:27pm

Arquivo.pt Annual Awards: A Glimpse

Daniel Gomes

Arquivo.pt, Portugal



4:27pm - 4:28pm

Arquivo.pt Api/Bulk Access and Its Usage

Vasco Rato, Daniel Gomes

Arquivo.pt, Portugal



4:28pm - 4:29pm

Failed Capture or Playback Woes? A Case Study in Highly Interactive Web Based Experiences

Mari Allison

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives United States of America



4:29pm - 4:30pm

HAWathon: Participants Experience

Ingeborg Rudomino, Anamarija Ljubek

National and University Library in Zagreb, Croatia



4:30pm - 4:31pm

Supporting Best Practices for Archiving Social Media by Heritage Institutions in Flanders (and Beyond)

Ellen Van Keer1, Katrien Weyns2

1: meemoo, Flemish Institute for Archives, Belgium; 2: KADOC at Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium



4:31pm - 4:32pm

Planning Web Archiving Within a Four-Year Scope: Making the New Collection Plan for the Years 2025-2028 in the National Library of Finland

Sanna Haukkala

National Library of Finland, Finland



4:32pm - 4:33pm

Redirects Unraveled: From Lost Links to Rickrolls

Kritika Garg1, Sawood Alam2, Michele Weigle1, Michael Nelson1, Mark Graham2, Dietrich Ayala3

1: Old Dominion University, United States of America; 2: Internet Archive, United States of America; 3: Filecoin Foundation, Netherlands



4:33pm - 4:34pm

Use of Screenshots as a Harvesting Tool for Dynamic Content and Use of AI for Later Data Analysis

Gaja Zornada, Boštjan Špetič

Computer History Museum Slovenia (Računališki muzej), Slovenia



4:34pm - 4:35pm

Asynchronous and Modular Pipelines for Fast WARC Annotation

Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Thom Vaughan

Common Crawl Foundation, United States of America



4:35pm - 4:36pm

Politely Downloading Millions of WARC Files Without Burning the Servers Down

Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Thom Vaughan, Greg Lindahl

Common Crawl Foundation, United States of America



4:36pm - 4:37pm

Robots.txt and Crawler Politeness in the Age of Generative AI

Sebastian Nagel, Thom Vaughan

Common Crawl Foundation, United States of America



4:37pm - 4:38pm

Experiences Switching an Archiving Web Crawler to Support HTTP/2

Sebastian Nagel

Common Crawl Foundation, United States of America

Date: Thursday, 10/Apr/2025
9:20am
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9:25am
LIGHTNING TALK SESSION 3: INTRODUCTION
Location: Målstova (upstairs)
Chair: Helena Byrne, British Library
9:25am
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9:55am
LIGHTNING TALK SESSION 3
Location: Målstova (upstairs)
Chair: Helena Byrne, British Library
 
9:25am - 9:30am

The Practice of Web Archiving Statistics and Quality Evaluation Based on the Localization of ISO/TR 14873:2013(E): A Case Study of the NSL-WebArchive Platform

Zhenxin Wu1, Jiali Zhu2,3, Jiying Hu1

1: National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; 2: Zhejiang Economic & Information Center, China; 3: Zhejiang Economic & Information Development Co., Ltd, China



9:30am - 9:35am

Modifying ePADD for Entity Extraction in Non-English Languages

Pierre Beauguitte, Tita Enstad

National Library of Norway, Norway



9:35am - 9:40am

Arquivo.pt Query Logs

Pedro Gomes, Daniel Gomes

Arquivo.pt, Portugal



9:40am - 9:45am

What You See No One Saw

Mat Kelly1, Alex H. Poole1, Michele Weigle2, Michael Nelson2, Travis Reid2, Christopher B. Rauch1, Hyung Wook Choi1

1: Drexel University, United States of America; 2: Old Dominion University, United States of America

10:05am
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11:15am
SESSION #04: Discovery & Access (News/Newspapers)
Location: Målstova (upstairs)
Chair: Tita Enstad, National Library of Norway
 
10:05am - 10:25am

Unlocking the Archive: Open Access to News Content as Corpora

Jon Carlstedt Tønnessen, Magnus Breder Birkenes

National Library of Norway, Norway



10:25am - 10:45am

Recently Orphaned Newspapers: From Archived Webpages to Reusable Datasets and Research Outlooks

Tyng-Ruey Chuang1, Chia-Hsun Wang1, Hung-Yen Wu1,2

1: Academia Sinica, Taiwan; 2: National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan



10:45am - 11:05am

NewsWARC: Analyzing News Over Time in the Web Archive

Amr Emara2, Khaled Ezz2, Shaden Hazem2, Youssef Eldakar1

1: Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt; 2: Alamein International University, Egypt



11:05am - 11:10am

Zombie E-Journals and the National Library of Spain

José Carlos Cerdán Medina

Biblioteca Nacional de España, Spain

11:45am
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1:15pm
PANEL #02: Cross-Institutional Collaborations
Location: Målstova (upstairs)
Chair: Abbie Grotke, Library of Congress
 

Past, Present & Future of Cross-Institutional Collaboration in Web Archiving: Insights from the Norwegian and Danish Web Archive, the NetArchiveSuite Community, & Beyond

Anders Klindt Myrvoll1, Thomas Langvann2, Sara Aubry3, José Carlos Cerdán Medina4, Niels Ørbæk Chemnitz5, Colin Samuel Rosenthal1, Abbie Grotke6

1: Royal Danish Library, Denmark; 2: National Library of Norway, Norway; 3: Bibliothèque nationale de France, France; 4: Biblioteca Nacional de España, Spain; 5: Analysis & Numbers, Denmark; 6: Library of Congress, United States of America

2:15pm
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3:40pm
SESSION #07: Research & Access
Location: Målstova (upstairs)
Chair: Marie Roald, National Library of Norway
 
2:15pm - 2:35pm

From Pages to People: Tailoring Web Archives for Different Use Cases

Andrea Kocsis2, Leontien Talboom1

1: Cambridge University Libraries, United Kingdom; 2: National Library of Scotland, United Kingdom



2:35pm - 2:55pm

Making Research Data Published to the Web FAIR

Bryony Hooper, Ric Campbell

University of Sheffield, United Kingdom



2:55pm - 3:15pm

Enhancing Accessibility to Belgian Born-Digital Heritage: The BelgicaWeb Project

Christina Vandendyck

Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), Belgium



3:15pm - 3:35pm

Using Generative AI to Interrogate the UK Government Web Archive

Chris Royds, Tom Storrar

The National Archives (UK), United Kingdom

4:10pm
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5:05pm
Closing Keynote: Quantifying Complexity: Using Web Data to Decode Online Public Debate
Location: Målstova (upstairs)
Chair: Jon Carlstedt Tønnessen, National Library of Norway
Streamed to Store Auditorium.
5:05pm
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5:30pm
Closing Remarks: Closing Remarks
Location: Målstova (upstairs)
Streamed to Store Auditorium.

 
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