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OPENING KEYNOTE PANEL
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PANELISTS Neil Jefferies, Open Preservation Foundation Neil Jefferies is an Innovation Specialist at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, Executive Director of the Open Preservation Foundation and a Director of Data Futures GmbH. He is co-creator of the International Image Interoperability Framework and the Oxford Common File Layout for the preservation of complex digital objects. Most recently he has worked on Text Interoperability API's, AI tools for cataloguing and the EPUB/A ISO specification. Lauren Ko, University of North Texas Libraries Lauren Ko leads the Software Development Unit in the University of North Texas Libraries Digital Libraries division where she has worked as a programmer analyst for several years building, deploying, and maintaining web applications. In parallel, she serves in the areas of creating, providing access to, and preserving web archives with open source tools. She is active in the IIPC tools community, hoping to make a better future for web archiving open source software and its developers. Yves Maurer, National Library of Luxembourg Yves Maurer is the head of IT and digital Innovation at the national library of Luxembourg (BnL). As a former head of digitization, Yves has been involved in the development and open-sourcing of the BnL’s digital collection viewer in 2011, the open publishing of the detailed digitization specifications for METS/ALTO and the quality assurance tool for digitization projects in 2014. The library continues using open source tools and providing updates to tools it is working on. Currently in web archiving, this is mostly Browserix and SOLRWayback and the ecosystem around them. Clare Stanton, Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School Clare Stanton is the Director of Product and Research at the Library Innovation Lab (LIL), a department of the Harvard Law School Library. The user-directed citation preservation service Perma.cc was built and is maintained at LIL, along with its associated open-source web archiving tools. Clare has been part of the Perma.cc team since 2018, when the IMLS awarded Perma a multi-year grant to prototype financial sustainability models. Tessa Walsh, Webrecorder Tessa Walsh is the Senior Applications and Tools Engineer at Webrecorder, where she helps develop and maintain open source web archiving tools such as Browsertrix, Browsertrix Crawler, and pywb. The Webrecorder team has been developing open source web archiving tools for over 10 years, with a focus on making high-fidelity browser-based archiving tools accessible to anyone who needs to collect and preserve online content that is meaningful to them. In addition to being a software developer, Tessa is an archivist, a digital preservationist, and a musician. | ||
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Sustainability for open source web archiving tools 1University of North Texas Libraries, United States of America; 2International Internet Preservation Consortium, United States of America; 3Webrecorder, Canada; 4Open Preservation Foundation, United Kingdom; 5Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School, United States of America; 6National Library of Luxemburg For over 25 years, the critical infrastructure of web archiving – including core functions such as capture, indexing, and replay – has depended on open source tools. While the premise of open source code is vital for collaboration and the only option for many users to achieve their web archiving initiatives, maintaining and sustaining these tools remains a persistent challenge for the community, regardless of the scale of their archiving operations. An ongoing survey of web archiving tool usage shows a majority of institutions dependent on open source products, including a replay tool initially released a dozen years ago and a crawler that has surpassed twenty years in age, despite the original project developers having shifted resources elsewhere. Aging codebases and unmaintained external dependencies, lead developers moving on from projects, shifts in web technologies that render older software less effective, and fewer funding opportunities available to open source projects are only some of the threats to the web archiving infrastructure employed by many institutions. This panel will address the inherent sustainability challenges facing the foundational open source tools used by the web archiving and other communities. The goal is to move beyond stating the facts about resource limitations and instead focus on diagnosing the status quo, identifying shared issues, and proposing achievable collaborative solutions that can be implemented beginning in the near-term. To that end, the panel will bring together a diverse range of stakeholders who offer different perspectives and potential solutions:
PERSPECTIVES SUSTAINABLE DIGITAL PRESERVATION (CONSORTIA)
UNIVERSITY AND NATIONAL LIBRARIES
OPEN SOURCE TOOLS SERVICE PROVIDER
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