Conference Agenda

Session Overview

Date: Tuesday, 08/Apr/2025
9:00am - 9:40am	REGISTRATION: General Assembly (For IIPC members only)
9:40am - 9:50am	Opening Remarks Location: Målstova (upstairs)
9:50am - 10:00am	Chair Address Location: Målstova (upstairs)
10:00am - 10:45am	IIPC Strategic Plan 2026-2030 Location: Målstova (upstairs)
10:45am - 11:15am	BREAK Location: Folkestova (upstairs) If you signed up for a guided exhibition tour, please be in the exhibition room at 10:45. To know if you signed up for a tour, check your registration details in ConfTool.
11:15am - 12:45pm	Framework for Tools Sustainability Location: Målstova (upstairs)	Content Development Working Group Meeting Location: Slottsbiblioteket (ground floor)	TBC Location: VIP - rommet (upstairs)
12:45pm - 2:00pm	LUNCH Location: CREDO Restaurant \| Kantine (downstairs) If you signed up for a guided exhibition tour, please be in the exhibition room at 12:50. To know if you signed up for a tour, check your registration details in ConfTool.
2:00pm - 3:30pm	Research Working Group Meeting Location: Målstova (upstairs)	Training Working Group Meeting Location: Slottsbiblioteket (ground floor) Actual session length: 60 minutes	TBC Location: VIP - rommet (upstairs)
3:30pm - 4:00pm	BREAK Location: Folkestova (upstairs) If you signed up for a guided exhibition tour, please be in the exhibition room at 3:30. To know if you signed up for a tour, check your registration details in ConfTool.
4:00pm - 5:30pm	Crawling National Domain: Towards Best Practices Location: Målstova (upstairs)	TWG WORKSHOP: Case Studies ‘Write-a-thon’ - Documenting Best Practices Location: Slottsbiblioteket (ground floor) Case Studies ‘Write-a-thon’ - Documenting Best Practices Claire Newing¹, Lauren Baker², Kody Willis³ 1: The National Archives (UK), United Kingdom; 2: Library of Congress, United States of America; 3: Internet Archive, United States of America	TBC Location: VIP - rommet (upstairs)
7:00pm - 9:00pm	WELCOME RECEPTION Location: Folkestova (upstairs) [IIPC Members Only] Includes light refreshments and drinks. Attendees are encouraged to have dinner beforehand.

Date: Wednesday, 09/Apr/2025
9:00am - 9:40am	REGISTRATION: Web Archiving Conference (WAC)
9:40am - 9:50am	Opening Remarks Location: Målstova (upstairs) Streamed to Store Auditorium.
9:50am - 10:45am	Opening Keynote: Libraries, Copyright, and Language Models Location: Målstova (upstairs) Chair: Andrew Jackson, Digital Preservation Coalition Streamed to Store Auditorium.
10:45am - 10:55am	SHORT BREAK Streaming video from Målstova to Store Auditorium ends. Lightning Talk Session 2 will begin in the Store Auditorium after the break.
10:55am - 11:00am	LIGHTNING TALK SESSION 1: INTRODUCTION Location: Målstova (upstairs) Chair: Ben Els, National Library of Luxembourg	LIGHTNING TALK SESSION 2: INTRODUCTION Location: Store Auditorium (ground floor) Chair: Sawood Alam, Internet Archive
11:00am - 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 Levrier^1,2, 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	LIGHTNING TALK SESSION 2 Location: Store Auditorium (ground floor) Chair: Sawood Alam, Internet Archive 11:00am - 11:05am Modelling Archived Web Objects as Semantic Entities to Manage Contextual and Versioning Issues Tom Storrar¹, Manuela Pallotto Strickland² 1: The National Archives (UK), United Kingdom; 2: King's College London, United Kingdom 11:05am - 11:10am Modernizing Web Archives: The Bumpy Road Towards a General ARC2WARC Conversion Tool Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Sebastian Nagel, Thom Vaughan Common Crawl Foundation, United States of America 11:10am - 11:15am Poking Around in Podcast Preservation Jasper Snoeren Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Netherlands 11:15am - 11:20am Automatic Clustering of Domains by Industry for Effective Curation Thomas Smedebøl Royal Danish Library, Denmark 11:20am - 11:25am Best Practice of Preserving Posts from Social Media Feeds Magdalena Sjödahl Arkiwera wcrify AB, Sweden
11:25am - 11:55am	BREAK Location: Folkestova (upstairs) Participants in the 2025 Mentoring Program can meet at the top of the old granite stairs outside of Målstova. Sitting places are available in the cafeteria/bar (upstairs) and library hallways (upstairs and ground floor). If the weather is nice, there are also small parks immediately in front of and behind the National Library building.
11:55am - 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 Cui^3,4, 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	SESSION #01: Tools Under Construction: Lessons Learned (National Library Perspective) Location: Store Auditorium (ground floor) Chair: Katherine Boss, National Library of Norway 11:55am - 12:15pm Embedding the Web Archive in an Overall Preservation System Hansueli Locher Swiss National Library, Switzerland 12:15pm - 12:35pm UKWA Rebuild Gil Hoggarth British Library, United Kingdom 12:35pm - 12:55pm Under Construction: Web Archive of the German National Library Natanael Arndt German National Library, Germany	WORKSHOP #01: Exploring Dilemmas in the Archiving of Legacy Webportals: An Exercise in Reflective Questioning Location: Slottsbiblioteket (ground floor) Exploring Dilemmas in the Archiving of Legacy Webportals: An Exercise in Reflective Questioning Daniel Steinmeier, Sophie Ham National Library of the Netherlands, Netherlands
1:00pm - 2:00pm	LUNCH Location: CREDO Restaurant \| Kantine (downstairs) If you signed up for a guided exhibition tour, please be in the exhibition room at 13:05. To know if you signed up for a tour, check your registration details in ConfTool.
2:05pm - 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	SESSION #03: Advocacy & User Engagement Location: Store Auditorium (ground floor) Chair: Mark Phillips, University of North Texas Libraries 2:05pm - 2:25pm Insufficiency of Human-Centric Ethical Guidelines in the Age of AI: Considering Implications of Making Legacy Web Content Openly Accessible Gaja Zornada, Boštjan Špetič Computer History Museum Slovenia (Računališki muzej), Slovenia 2:25pm - 2:45pm Web Archives for Music Research Andreas Lenander Ægidius Royal Danish Library, Denmark 2:45pm - 3:05pm IXP History Collection: Recording the Early Development of the Core of the Public Internet Sharon Healy¹, Gerard Best¹, Lara Díaz Martínez² 1: Independent Researcher, Ireland; 2: University of Barcelona, Spain 3:05pm - 3:25pm Lost, but Preserved - A Web Archiving Perspective on the Ephemeral Web Sawood Alam, Mark Graham Internet Archive, United States of America	WORKSHOP #02: Web Archive Collections As Data Location: Slottsbiblioteket (ground floor) Web Archive Collections as Data Gustavo Candela¹, Chase Dooley², Abbie Grotke², Olga Holownia³, Jon Carlstedt Tønnessen⁴, Helena Byrne⁵, Emily Maemura⁶ 1: University of Alicante, Spain; 2: Library of Congress, United States of America; 3: IIPC, United States of America; 4: National Library of Norway, Norway; 5: British Library, UK; 6: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States of America
3:40pm - 4:10pm	BREAK Location: Folkestova (upstairs) Participants in the 2025 Mentoring Program can meet at the top of the old granite stairs outside of Målstova. Sitting places are available in the cafeteria/bar (upstairs) and library hallways (upstairs and ground floor). If the weather is nice, there are also small parks immediately in front of and behind the National Library building.
4:10pm - 4:20pm	POSTER SLAM INTRO Location: Målstova (upstairs) Chair: Olga Holownia, IIPC Streamed to Store Auditorium.
4:20pm - 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
4:40pm - 6:00pm	POSTER SESSION Location: Folkestova (upstairs)
7:30pm - 9:30pm	DINNER Location: CREDO Restaurant \| Kantine (downstairs)

Date: Thursday, 10/Apr/2025
9:00am - 9:20am	MORNING COFFEE Location: Folkestova (upstairs)
9:20am - 9:25am	LIGHTNING TALK SESSION 3: INTRODUCTION Location: Målstova (upstairs) Chair: Helena Byrne, British Library	LIGHTNING TALK SESSION 4: INTRODUCTION Location: Store Auditorium (ground floor) Chair: Dorothée Benhamou-Suesser, National Library of France
9:25am - 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 Zhu^2,3, 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	LIGHTNING TALK SESSION 4 Location: Store Auditorium (ground floor) Chair: Dorothée Benhamou-Suesser, National Library of France 9:25am - 9:30am Collaborative Collections at Arquivo.pt: Four Years of Recordings from the City of Sines (Portugal) Ricardo Basílio Arquivo.pt, Portugal 9:30am - 9:35am Participatory Web Archiving: The Tensions Between the Instrumental Benefits and Democratic Value Cui Cui^1,3, Stephen Pinfield¹, Andrew Cox¹, Frank Hopfgartner² 1: University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; 2: Institute for Web Science and Technologies (WeST), Germany; 3: Bodleian Libraries, United Kingdom 9:35am - 9:40am A Minimal Computing Approach for Web Archive Research Alan Colin-Arce¹, Rosario Rogel-Salazar² 1: University of Victoria, Canada; 2: Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Mexico 9:40am - 9:45am Where Fashion Meets Science: Collecting and Curating a Creative Web Archive Elisabeth Thurlow University of the Arts London, United Kingdom
9:55am - 10:05am	SHORT BREAK
10:05am - 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 Wu^1,2 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	SESSION #05: Sustainability Location: Store Auditorium (ground floor) Chair: Bjarne Andersen, Royal Danish Library 10:05am - 10:25am 42 Tips to Diminish the CO2 Impact of Websites Tamara van Zwol², Lotte Wijsman¹, Jasper Snoeren³, Tineke van Heijst⁴ 1: National Archives of the Netherlands, Netherlands; 2: Dutch Digital Heritage Network, Netherlands; 3: Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Netherlands; 4: Van Heijst Information Consulting, Netherlands 10:25am - 10:45am Building Towards Environmentally Sustainable Web Archiving: The UK Government Web Archive and Beyond Jane Winters¹, Eirini Goudarouli², Jake Bickford² 1: University of London, United Kingdom; 2: The National Archives (UK), United Kingdom 10:45am - 11:05am Preservation of Historical Data: Using Warchaeology to Process 20 Years of Harvesting Andreas Børsheim, Marius André Elsfjordstrand Beck National Library of Norway, Norway 11:05am - 11:10am Analysing the Publications Office of the European Union Web Archive for the Rationalisation of Digital Content Generation Alexandre Angers Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg	WORKSHOP #03: Introduction to Web Graphs Location: Slottsbiblioteket (ground floor) Introduction to Web Graphs Sebastian Nagel, Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Thom Vaughan, Greg Lindahl Common Crawl Foundation, United States of America
11:15am - 11:45am	BREAK Location: Folkestova (upstairs)
11:45am - 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	SESSION #06: Curating Social Media Location: Store Auditorium (ground floor) Chair: Tom Smyth, Library and Archives Canada 11:45am - 12:05pm Developing Social Media Archiving Guidelines at the National Archives of the Netherlands Lotte Wijsman, Geert Leloup, Susanne Van den Eijkel, Sander Wellens National Archives of the Netherlands, Netherlands 12:05pm - 12:25pm Archiving the Social Media Profiles of Members of Government Ben Els National Library of Luxembourg, Luxembourg 12:25pm - 12:45pm From Posts to Archives: The National Library of Singapore’s Journey in Collecting Social Media Shereen Tay, Meiyu Lee National Library Board Singapore, Singapore 12:45pm - 1:05pm Innovative Web Archiving Amid Crisis: Leveraging Browsertrix and Hybrid Working Models to Capture the UK General Election 2024 Nicola Bingham, Jennie Grimshaw British Library, United Kingdom	WORKSHOP #04: How to Develop a New Browsertrix Behavior Location: Slottsbiblioteket (ground floor) How to Develop a New Browsertrix Behavior Ilya Kreymer, Tessa Walsh Webrecorder, United States of America
1:15pm - 2:15pm	LUNCH Location: CREDO Restaurant \| Kantine (downstairs) If you signed up for a guided exhibition tour, please be in the exhibition room at 13:20. To know if you signed up for a tour, check your registration details in ConfTool.
2:15pm - 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	SESSION #08: Handling What You Captured Location: Store Auditorium (ground floor) Chair: Meghan Lyon, Library of Congress 2:15pm - 2:35pm So You’ve Got a WACZ: How Archives Become Verifiable Evidence Basile Simon, Lindsay Walker Starling Lab for Data Integrity, Stanford-USC, United States of America 2:35pm - 2:55pm Warc-Safe: An Open-Source WARC Virus Checker and NSFW (Not-Safe-For-Work) Content Detection Tool László Tóth National Library of Luxembourg, Luxembourg 2:55pm - 3:15pm Detecting and Diagnosing Errors in Replaying Archived Web Pages Jingyuan Zhu¹, Huanchen Sun², Harsha Madhyastha² 1: University of Michigan, United States of America; 2: University of Southern California, United States of America 3:15pm - 3:35pm Building a Toolchain for Screen Recording-Based Web Archiving of SVOD Platforms Alexis Di Lisi Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA), France	PANEL #03: Cross-Institutional Collaboration: the End of Term Archive Location: Slottsbiblioteket (ground floor) Chair: Jeffrey van der Hoeven, National Library of the Netherlands (KB) Coordinating, Capturing, and Curating the 2024 United States End of Term Web Archive Mark Phillips¹, Sawood Alam², James Jacobs³, Ilya Kreymer⁴ 1: University of North Texas, United States of America; 2: Internet Archive, United States of America; 3: Stanford University, United States of America; 4: Webrecorder, United States of America
3:40pm - 4:10pm	BREAK Location: Folkestova (upstairs)
4:10pm - 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 - 5:30pm	Closing Remarks: Closing Remarks Location: Målstova (upstairs) Streamed to Store Auditorium.