Conference Agenda

The vision of the IIPC Training Working Group (TWG) is to make IIPC the world leader for training on web archiving. When we survey IIPC members on their training needs they often suggest that they would find a collection of case studies useful. We believe that creating such a collection would support the conference theme 'Towards Best Practices in Web Archiving'. The proposed session would be open to everyone with a goal to grow the resources available to web archiving practitioners.

The TWG have discussed the creation of case studies during regular meetings and established that, although members wish to contribute and have many good ideas, they are struggling to find time to write them. The proposed ‘Write-a-thon’ will provide participants with a dedicated eighty minute long session to focus on writing up their case studies. It will comprise three twenty minute long writing blocks separated by five minute long breaks. During the breaks, participants will be encouraged to discuss their work and gain feedback from others if desired. This format has been used successfully by a writing group at the author’s employing institution. Participants will be asked to submit their completed case studies at the end of the session and the TWG Co-chairs will make them available to all on Google Drive. They will have the ongoing support of the TWG with continued, regular work on case studies throughout the year.

The session will be aimed at any conference attendees who wish to submit a case study on any topic relevant to web archiving. Suggested topics include: a process/workflow which works well; a decision rubric for selection; a method developed for capturing a specific type of content; building specialist search queries; a successful tool used for training. To support the creation of case studies during the session and beyond, participants will be provided a case study template and a sample completed case study for reference.

The overall outcome will be a case study collection hosted on Google Docs which will be open to all members. We plan to launch it shortly after the conference and will actively recruit others to add case studies on an ongoing basis.

Participants will:

• Become familiar with a range of web archiving case study topics of interest to participants
• Identify what elements are important to include in an IIPC case study
• Contribute to building the resources available to web archiving practitioners for conducting their work
• Network with participants to share best practice about creating case studies and web archiving topics more generally