Conference Agenda

Agenda
9:00 Welcome of participants at KBR (in the lobby)
9:15 Welcome notes (in the Newspaper Reading Room)
9:30–10:00 Interactive icebreaker activity
10:00–11:00 BelgicaWeb Symposium
11:00–12:30 Discussion with participants on the insights from the BelgicaWeb presentation, followed by a broader guided collective discussion on collaboration between web archivists and researchers
12:30 Lunch
13:30–16:15 Discussions and presentations by participants, organized in several stages.
During the first hour, you will be divided into three small groups of three or four people (you are 10 participants) to present your research and challenges to each other, guided by a facilitator (Emmanuelle Bermès, Ian Milligan or Valérie Schafer).
This will be followed by 30 minutes of collective feedback from each group, before moving into broader discussions addressing the key questions and issues.
16:15 Break
16:30–17:30 Collaborative work on a collective poster addressing the conference theme of sustainability. This poster is part of an evolving proposal that will be further enriched by all conference participants during WAC26.

Agenda
9:00 Welcome of participants at KBR (in the lobby)
9:15 Welcome notes (in the Newspaper Reading Room)
9:30–10:00 Interactive icebreaker activity
10:00–11:00 BelgicaWeb Symposium
11:00–12:30 Discussion with participants on the insights from the BelgicaWeb presentation, followed by a broader guided collective discussion on collaboration between web archivists and researchers
12:30 Lunch
13:30–16:15 Discussions and presentations by participants, organized in several stages.
During the first hour, you will be divided into three small groups of three or four people (you are 10 participants) to present your research and challenges to each other, guided by a facilitator (Emmanuelle Bermès, Ian Milligan or Valérie Schafer).
This will be followed by 30 minutes of collective feedback from each group, before moving into broader discussions addressing the key questions and issues.
16:15 Break
16:30–17:30 Collaborative work on a collective poster addressing the conference theme of sustainability. This poster is part of an evolving proposal that will be further enriched by all conference participants during WAC26.

Agenda
9:00 Welcome of participants at KBR (in the lobby)
9:15 Welcome notes (in the Newspaper Reading Room)
9:30–10:00 Interactive icebreaker activity
10:00–11:00 BelgicaWeb Symposium
11:00–12:30 Discussion with participants on the insights from the BelgicaWeb presentation, followed by a broader guided collective discussion on collaboration between web archivists and researchers
12:30 Lunch
13:30–16:15 Discussions and presentations by participants, organized in several stages.
During the first hour, you will be divided into three small groups of three or four people (you are 10 participants) to present your research and challenges to each other, guided by a facilitator (Emmanuelle Bermès, Ian Milligan or Valérie Schafer).
This will be followed by 30 minutes of collective feedback from each group, before moving into broader discussions addressing the key questions and issues.
16:15 Break
16:30–17:30 Collaborative work on a collective poster addressing the conference theme of sustainability. This poster is part of an evolving proposal that will be further enriched by all conference participants during WAC26.

Agenda
9:00 Welcome of participants at KBR (in the lobby)
9:15 Welcome notes (in the Newspaper Reading Room)
9:30–10:00 Interactive icebreaker activity
10:00–11:00 BelgicaWeb Symposium
11:00–12:30 Discussion with participants on the insights from the BelgicaWeb presentation, followed by a broader guided collective discussion on collaboration between web archivists and researchers
12:30 Lunch
13:30–16:15 Discussions and presentations by participants, organized in several stages.
During the first hour, you will be divided into three small groups of three or four people (you are 10 participants) to present your research and challenges to each other, guided by a facilitator (Emmanuelle Bermès, Ian Milligan or Valérie Schafer).
This will be followed by 30 minutes of collective feedback from each group, before moving into broader discussions addressing the key questions and issues.
16:15 Break
16:30–17:30 Collaborative work on a collective poster addressing the conference theme of sustainability. This poster is part of an evolving proposal that will be further enriched by all conference participants during WAC26.

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.

PANELISTS Basile Simon, Starling Lab, Stanford / USC Basile leads applied research in evidentiary and investigative standards and comes from a background in journalism and human rights documentation Emily Tripp, Airwars Emily is the executive director of Airwars, a leading human rights violations monitor and an early architect of remote, web-based documentation. Marvin Milatz, Der Spiegel Marvin works as a researcher at DER SPIEGEL’s fact-checking unit, specialising in “Open Source Intelligence” (OSINT) and digital forensics. Friedhelm Weinberg, Mnemonic Friedhelm oversees the programmatic work of Mnemonic, an organisation dedicated to archiving, preserving, and verifying open-source information as documentation of human rights violations and international crimes.

- WARC extensions: Idea to Stable Specification - Alex Osborne (National Library of Australia)
- Heritrix updates - Alex Osborne (National Library of Australia)
- Enhancing Curatorial Workflows in Heritrix - Sara Aubry (National Library of France)
- SolrWayback & WARC-indexer (updates + to-do’s) - Thomas Egense & Anders Klindt Myrvoll (Royal Danish Library)
- Wombat and wabac and pywb, oh my! How the pieces fit together in replay - Ilya Kremer & Tessa Walsh (Webrecorder)
- Websites blocking crawling efforts - Sebastian Nagel (Common Crawl)