Conference Agenda
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Agenda Overview |
| Date: Monday, 20/Apr/2026 | |||||
| 9:15am - 9:45am |
REGISTRATION: BELGICAWEB & WORKSHOPS AND COFFEE Location: PANORAMA: FOYER [+6] ☕️🥐 Drinks and snacks will be served in Panorama Foyer (Floor +6). |
EARLY SCHOLARS SPRING SCHOOL ON WEB ARCHIVES [PART 1] Location: KRANTEN / JOURNAUX [0] Registration for this event begins at 9:00.
9:00 Welcome of participants at KBR (in the lobby) an> 9:15 Welcome notes (in the Newspaper Reading Room) an> 9:30–10:00 Interactive icebreaker activity |
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| 9:45am - 10:00am |
BELGICAWEB SYMPOSIUM: OPENING REMARKS Location: PANORAMA [+6] |
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| 10:00am - 11:00am |
BELGICAWEB SYMPOSIUM Location: PANORAMA [+6] Chair: Friedel Geeraert, KBR | Royal Library of Belgium Digital Heritage for the Future - the BelgicaWeb Story 1: KBR | Royal Library of Belgium; 2: Ghent University; 3: University of Namur |
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| 11:00am - 11:30am |
BREAK Location: PANORAMA: FOYER [+6] ☕️🥐 Drinks and snacks will be served in Panorama Foyer (Floor +6) |
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| 11:30am - 12:30pm |
BELGICAWEB SYMPOSIUM PANEL: USER NEEDS Location: PANORAMA [+6] Chair: Peter Mechant, Ghent University Users first: (Re)designing Web Archives around real Needs 1: Ghent University; 2: Bibliothèque nationale de France; 3: National Library of Norway; 4: University of Edinburgh; 5: UK National Archives |
BELGICAWEB SYMPOSIUM PANEL: PROGRAMS Location: CONCERT [+4] From pilot to program: cultivating institutional web archiving practices for sustainability 1: IIPC, United States of America; 2: Library of Congress, United States; 3: National Library of Norway; 4: British Library, United Kingdom |
BELGICAWEB SYMPOSIUM PANEL: LEGAL Location: STUDIO [+6] Chair: Elodie Lecroart, University of Namur The legal challenges of web archiving and open collections 1: University of Namur; 2: Sciences Po Paris Law School; 3: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; 4: The civil society of multimedia authors & Society of dramatic authors and composers |
BELGICAWEB SYMPOSIUM PANEL: AI Location: ATELIER [+2] Chair: Julie Birkholz, KBR | Royal Library of Belgium & Ghent University AI in web and social media archives 1: KBR | Royal Library of Belgium, Belgium; 2: Internet Archive; 3: Bibliothèque nationale de France; 4: Aarhus University |
SPRING SCHOOL [PART 2] Location: KRANTEN / JOURNAUX [0] Discussions & collaborative work |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
LUNCH Location: PANORAMA: FOYER [+6] 🍴 Lunch will be served in Panorama Foyer (Floor +6).
🏛️ GUIDED TOUR KBR: If you signed up for a guided tour of KBR, please be in front of the three main elevators on Floor -2 at 12:30 [1st tour] or 13:00 [2nd tour]. To know if you signed up for a tour, check your registration details in ConfTool. |
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| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
WORKSHOP: GLAM LABS & JUPYTER NOTEBOOKS [PART 1] Location: PANORAMA [+6] Chair: Olga Holownia, IIPC Chair: Gustavo Candela, University of Alicante Chair: Ben O'Brien, National Library of New Zealand Chair: Helena Byrne, British Library Explore the use of the GLAM Labs Checklist, Datasheets, and Jupyter Notebooks for digitized and born-digital collections 1: British Library; 2: University of Alicante, Spain; 3: National Library of Norway; 4: International Internet Preservation Consortium; 5: National Library of New Zealand |
WORKSHOP: SUSTAINABLE HARVESTING Location: STUDIO [+6] Chair: Jasper Snoeren, Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision Chair: Natasha Kitcher, The National Archives, UK Web harvesting in an environmentally sustainable way 1: Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Netherlands, The; 2: The National Archives (UK), United Kingdom; 3: National Archives of the Netherlands, Netherlands; 4: University of London, United Kingdom; 5: Publications Office of the European Union |
WORKSHOP: SOLRWAYBACK [PART 1] Location: ATELIER [+2] Chair: Thomas Egense, Royal Danish Library Chair: Anders Klindt Myrvoll, Royal Danish Library Run your own full-stack SolrWayback, collaborate & unlock the potential of archived data 1: Royal Danish Library, Denmark; 2: The National Library of New Zealand; 3: Aarhus University; 4: National Library of Norway; 5: National Library of Luxembourg |
SPRING SCHOOL [PART 3] Location: KRANTEN / JOURNAUX [0] Discussions & collaborative work |
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| 3:00pm - 3:30pm |
BREAK Location: PANORAMA: FOYER [+6] ☕️🥐 Drinks and snacks will be served in Panorama Foyer (Floor +6). |
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| 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
WORKSHOP: GLAM LABS & JUPYTER NOTEBOOKS [PART 2] Location: PANORAMA [+6] Chair: Olga Holownia, IIPC Chair: Gustavo Candela, University of Alicante Chair: Ben O'Brien, National Library of New Zealand Chair: Helena Byrne, British Library |
WORKSHOP: WEB ARCHIVES & AI Location: STUDIO [+6] Chair: Ines Vodopivec, National Library of Norway & Stanford University From problem to practice: a collaborative use case workshop on AI-driven management and reuse of web archive content 1: AI4LAM; 2: IIPC |
WORKSHOP: SOLRWAYBACK [PART 2] Location: ATELIER [+2] |
SPRING SCHOOL [PART 4] Location: KRANTEN / JOURNAUX [0] Discussions & collaborative work |
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| 5:00pm - 5:30pm |
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SPRING SCHOOL [WRAP-UP] Location: KRANTEN / JOURNAUX [0] |
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| Date: Tuesday, 21/Apr/2026 | ||
| 8:10am - 9:10am |
REGISTRATION AND COFFEE Location: AUDITORIUM [-2] ☕️🥐 Drinks and snacks will be served in Galerie (Floor -2, next to Auditorium). |
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| 9:10am - 9:30am |
OPENING REMARKS Location: AUDITORIUM [-2] |
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| 9:30am - 11:00am |
OPENING KEYNOTE PANEL Location: AUDITORIUM [-2] Chair: Lauren Ko, University of North Texas Libraries Chair: Olga Holownia, IIPC Sustainability for open source web archiving tools 1: University of North Texas Libraries, United States of America; 2: International Internet Preservation Consortium, United States of America; 3: Webrecorder, Canada; 4: Open Preservation Foundation, United Kingdom; 5: Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School, United States of America; 6: National Library of Luxemburg |
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| 11:00am - 11:30am |
BREAK Location: GALERIE [-2] ☕️🥐 Drinks and snacks will be served in Galerie (Floor -2, next to the Auditorium).
🏛️ GUIDED TOUR KBR: If you signed up for a guided tour of KBR, please be in front of the three main elevators on Floor -2 at 11:00. To know if you signed up for a tour, check your registration details in ConfTool. |
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| 11:30am - 12:35pm |
POSITIVE + NEGATIVE IMPACT OF AI Location: AUDITORIUM [-2] Chair: Gil Hoggarth, British Library Why ask WAAI: A sustainable approach to exploring web archiving artificial intelligence (WAAI) Internet Archive, United States of America 11:52am - 12:14pm Understanding and mitigating anti-bot technologies' impact on archival web crawling 1: MirrorWeb Limited, United Kingdom; 2: Library of Congress, United States of America 12:14pm - 12:35pm AI-powered search to sustain IIPC conference knowledge 1: Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt; 2: Alamein International University; 3: Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology |
SHORT TALKS Location: PANORAMA [+6] Chair: Helena Byrne, British Library Chair: Sharon Healy, IIPC A Toolbox to foster Web Archives Use and Reuse National Library of France, France 11:41am - 11:49am Constructing and sharing historical web link graphs from web archives Arquivo.pt, Portugal 11:49am - 11:57am Lossy and porous archives: Sustainability and collaborative models of LAC and the Internet Archive University of Copenhagen, Denmark 11:57am - 12:05pm Ten years of websites and born-digital archiving in Slovakia University Library in Bratislava, Slovak Republic 12:05pm - 12:13pm Climate change captured: collaborative, complex crawling & collecting - learnings from a cross-institutional pilot on climate change reactions Royal Danish Library, Denmark 12:13pm - 12:21pm Bridging local and international communities: Web archiving outreach and collaboration 1: Aix Marseille University, France; 2: Humathèque, Campus Condorcet, France; 3: MMSH, CNRS, Aix Marseille University, France 12:21pm - 12:29pm Best practices for collaboration: Managing themed harvests with external partners National Library of Finland, Finland |
| 12:35pm - 1:35pm |
LUNCH Location: GALERIE [-2] & PANORAMA FOYER [+6] 🍴 Lunch will be served in in Panorama Foyer (Floor +6) and in Galerie (Floor -2, next to the Auditorium).
⬆️ ⬇️ 🛗 Floor overview + plan 🏛️ GUIDED KBR MUSEUM TOUR (ENGLISH): If you signed up for a guided tour, please be by the Museum entrance on Floor 0 at 12:35 [1st tour] or 13:05 [2nd tour]. To know if you signed up for a tour, check your registration details in ConfTool. |
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| 1:35pm - 3:00pm |
SOCIAL MEDIA PANEL Location: AUDITORIUM [-2] Chair: Beatrice Cannelli, University of London Digital Democracy: archiving government social media content 1: The National Archives of the Netherlands, Netherlands, The; 2: The National Archives, UK; 3: National Library of Singapore; 4: Bodleian Libraries 2:40pm - 3:00pm High-fidelity social media archiving: current state of the art Webrecorder |
WORKFLOWS FOR BUILDING AND ANALYSING DATA Location: PANORAMA [+6] Chair: Andrea Goethals, National Library of New Zealand Digital Diaspora: mapping the Jewish internet The National Library of Israel, Israel 1:57pm - 2:18pm Improved language identification for web crawl data Common Crawl Foundation, United Kingdom 2:18pm - 2:39pm Hyperlinked homeland: A historical hyperlink analysis of 200 Dutch LGBT+ websites University of Groningen, Netherlands, The 2:39pm - 3:00pm WARCbench: A swiss army knife for WARC processing Harvard Library Innovation Lab, United States of America |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm |
BREAK Location: GALERIE [-2] & PANORAMA FOYER [+6] ☕️🥐 Drinks and snacks will be served in Panorama Foyer (Floor +6) and in Galerie (Floor -2, next to the Auditorium). |
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| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
POSTER SLAM Location: AUDITORIUM [-2] Chair: Olga Holownia, IIPC A survey on data-access methods for an open web archive Common Crawl Foundation, France Linkra – application for archiving and creating citations of web resources in scientific texts National Library of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic Application of AI at Social Media Archiving in the National Library of China National Library of China, China, People's Republic of Archiving and Analyzing YouTube Recommendations during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games 1: Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle; 2: Université Rennes 2; 3: Bibliothèque nationale de France, France; 4: Inria, Rennes; 5: Université de Lille; 6: Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems – CNRS Detecting and managing challenging web crawls at scale MirrorWeb Limited, United Kingdom Mapping duplicate images in a web archive using perceptual hashing National Library of Norway, Norway Migration of Croatia's Web Archive's selective web harvesting system: transitioning to sustainable and interoperable solutions National and University Library in Zagreb, Croatia Using data to challenge negativity bias in quality assurance workflows Library of Congress, United States of America Sustainable web archiving: a living and participative poster 1: C2DH, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg; 2: Ecole Nationale des Chartes - PSL, France The technologies of an in-house seed handling tool National Library of Finland Virtual Mucem: from web archives to a museum remediation of an ethnological websites collection Bibliothèque nationale de France, France WebData: Building a Research Infrastructure for the Norwegian Web Archive National Library of Norway, Norway Doing humanities with web archiving: an oral history of web archiving practices in academia and the making of digital culture 1: Aix Marseille University, TELEMMe Laboratory, France; 2: Mediterranean House of Human and Social Sciences, Aix Marseille University, CNRS, France How not to build a web archive in two weeks Texas State University, United States of America Linking the awesome: Building a Community Knowledge Graph for Web Archiving Resources German National Library, Germany Revisiting a statistical approach for measuring Solr query performance National Library of Norway, Norway Sustaining web archiving through instruction New York University Libraries, United States of America The DOWARC notebook: modelling web archiving artefacts as RDF graphs in Jupyter 1: The National Archives, UK; 2: King's College London, UK Where is Hyves? Preparing hyperlinks for distant reading KB | National Library of the Netherlands, Netherlands, The |
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| 4:00pm - 5:20pm |
POSTER SESSIONS Location: GALERIE [-2] |
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| 6:30pm - 9:30pm |
Dinner at Le Cercle Des Voyageurs |
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| Date: Wednesday, 22/Apr/2026 | |||
| 9:00am - 9:20am |
MORNING COFFEE Location: GALERIE [-2] ☕️🥐 Drinks and snacks will be served in Galerie (Floor -2, next to the Auditorium). |
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| 9:20am - 10:45am |
SOCIAL MEDIA PANEL Location: AUDITORIUM [-2] Chair: Katrien Weyns, Vlaams Architectuurinstituut Social media archiving in small institutions: working alone together 1: Vlaams Architectuurinstituut, Belgium; 2: Archive for national movements, Belgium; 3: Amsab-Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Belgium; 4: meemoo, Belgium; 5: KBR | Royal Library of Belgium & Ghent University, Belgium; 6: Regionaal Historisch Centrum Eindhoven, Netherlands; 7: UGent, Belgium 10:25am - 10:45am Making 1.2 billion social media posts accessible: a user-centric search interface for large-scale Twitter archives INA - Institut national de l'audiovisuel, France |
COLLECTIONS AS DATA: WORKFLOWS & USE CASES Location: PANORAMA [+6] Chair: Bjarne Andersen, Royal Danish Library Web archives of tragedy: ethical, sustainable access and research use for 9/11 collections University of Waterloo, Canada 9:42am - 10:03am Creative access - Lessons from the Digital Ghosts exhibition Univeristy of Edinburgh, United Kingdom 10:03am - 10:24am Developing a sustainable workflow for UK Web Archive collections as data British Library, United Kingdom 10:24am - 10:45am Bridging the Web Archive and the Library: a Linked‑Data Model for FAIR Web Archive Integration German National Library, Germany |
SHORT TALKS Location: CONCERT [+4] Chair: Katherine Boss, National Library of Norway Environmentally-friendly digital preservation policies and infrastructure at the National Library of Norway National Library of Norway, Norway 9:30am - 9:38am Environmental Issues on the Web: Building and Promoting a Thematic Archive National Library of France, France 9:38am - 9:46am Storing URLs, targets, and other time-varying entities in a database as a path to sustainable recordkeeping Hungarian National Museum Public Collection Centre National Széchényi Library, Hungary 9:46am - 9:54am Web archiving automation at the Mexico Digital Preservation Group: error assessment and quality control 1: National Library of Mexico, Mexico; 2: Digital Preservation Group, Mexico 9:54am - 10:02am Sustainable and systematic: building a search index of research and practice in web archiving and digital preservation 1: Digital Preservation Coalition, United Kingdon; 2: IIPC, United States of America; 3: Cartlann Digital Services, Ireland 10:02am - 10:10am Querying the archived web with an AI assistant 1: Aarhus University, Denmark; 2: Macquarie University, Australia 10:10am - 10:18am Online annotation platform for web archives Arquivo.pt, Portugal 10:18am - 10:26am Organizing the 'Social Mess': a comprehensive Tool for Social Media and Instant Messaging Archiving 1: University of Pavia, Italy; 2: University of Bologna, Italy |
| 10:45am - 11:15am |
BREAK Location: GALERIE [-2] & PANORAMA FOYER [+6] ☕️🥐 Drinks and snacks will be served in Panorama Foyer (Floor +6) and in Galerie (Floor -2, next to the Auditorium).
🏛️ GUIDED TOUR KBR: If you signed up for a guided tour of KBR, please be in front of the three main elevators on Floor -2 at 10:45. To know if you signed up for a tour, check your registration details in ConfTool. |
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| 11:15am - 12:20pm |
QUALITY ASSURANCE & DEDUPLICATION Location: AUDITORIUM [-2] Chair: Anders Klindt Myrvoll, Royal Danish Library Deduplication in browser-based crawling with Browsertrix Webrecorder 11:37am - 11:59am Efficient quality assurance of deduplicated web archives with Browsertrix National Library of Luxembourg, Luxembourg 11:59am - 12:20pm A browser-based approach to measuring completeness in archived websites University of Alberta, Canada |
TECHNICAL INNOVATION AND STRATEGIES Location: PANORAMA [+6] Chair: Lauren Ko, University of North Texas Libraries Archiving websites and social media of national movements: best practices of ADVN | Archives of national movements Archive for national movements 11:37am - 11:59am Combining browser-based and browserless crawling for better fidelity vs. efficiency tradeoffs 1: University of Michigan, United States of America; 2: University of Southern California, United States of America 11:59am - 12:20pm The wasteback machine: measuring the environmental impact of the past web The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
ACCESS & REUSE Location: CONCERT [+4] Chair: Jon Carlstedt Tønnessen, National Library of Norway Unlocking the web: online access to the National Library of Singapore’s web archives collection National Library Board Singapore, Singapore 11:37am - 11:59am Unlocking the Web Archive: understanding researcher needs The National Archives UK, United Kingdom 11:59am - 12:20pm Text Mining Analysis of the discourse on ‘Archive Silences and Democracy’ 1: International Hellenic University, Greece; 2: Department of Library, Archival & Information Studies, International Hellenic University, Greece; 3: Department of Production Engineering and Management, International Hellenic University, Greece |
| 12:20pm - 1:25pm |
LUNCH Location: GALERIE [-2] & PANORAMA FOYER [+6] 🍴 Lunch will be served will be served in Panorama Foyer (Floor +6) and in Galerie (Floor -2, next to the Auditorium).
🏛️ GUIDED KBR MUSEUM TOUR: If you signed up for a guided tour, please be by the entrance to the Museum on Floor 0 at 12:20 [1st tour] or 12:50 [2nd tour]. To know if you signed up for a tour, check your registration details in ConfTool. |
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| 1:25pm - 2:30pm |
ARCHIVING BLOGS AND NEWS Location: AUDITORIUM [-2] Chair: Padraic Stack, National Library of Ireland Blogs to digital heritage: a British Library case study British Library, United Kingdom 1:47pm - 2:09pm The taste of blogging : towards sensible and ethical approaches to web archives. 1: École nationale des chartes, France; 2: Bibliothèque nationale de France, France 2:09pm - 2:30pm Capturing the flow of online news: complementary approaches to web archiving and legal deposit in Sweden National Library of Sweden, Sweden |
RESPONSIBLE STRATEGIES Location: PANORAMA [+6] Chair: Abbie Grotke, Library of Congress End of Term Web Archive: Harmonizing WARC contributions from multiple crawling partners 1: University of North Texas Libraries, United States of America; 2: Internet Archive, United States of America 1:47pm - 2:09pm Crawl, cloud, carbon: measuring and reducing emissions for web archivists Tailpipe, United Kingdom 2:09pm - 2:30pm How the Arquivo.pt Memorial service contributes to reducing the carbon footprint Arquivo.pt, Portugal |
COLLABORATION & OUTREACH Location: CONCERT [+4] Chair: Vladimir Tybin, Bibliothèque nationale de France A web archiving training program for Latin America 1: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico; 2: Webrecorder, United States of America 1:47pm - 1:55pm Warc School - fellowship & training program update 1: College of Wooster Libraries, United States of America; 2: Shift Collective |
| 2:30pm - 3:00pm |
BREAK Location: GALERIE [-2] & PANORAMA FOYER [+6] ☕️🥐 Drinks and snacks will be served in Panorama Foyer (Floor +6) and in Galerie (Floor -2, next to the Auditorium). |
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| 3:00pm - 4:30pm |
CLOSING KEYNOTE PANEL Location: AUDITORIUM [-2] Chair: Basile Simon, Starling Lab for Data Integrity Archiving for accountability: new frontiers in open source intelligence and digital evidence 1: Starling Lab; Stanford / USC; 2: Airwars; 3: Der Spiegel; 4: Mnemonic |
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| 4:30pm - 4:45pm |
CLOSING REMARKS Location: AUDITORIUM [-2] |
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| 4:45pm - 6:00pm |
CLOSING RECEPTION Location: ROTONDE Drinks and nibbles will be served in Rotonde. Volunteers will guide you to floor +3 from where the historical part of the Library can be accessed. |
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| Date: Thursday, 23/Apr/2026 | ||||
| 9:00am - 9:30am |
MORNING COFFEE Location: PANORAMA: FOYER [+6] ☕️🥐 Drinks and snacks will be served in Panorama Foyer (Floor +6). |
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| 9:30am - 9:40am |
GENERAL ASSEMBLY: OPENING REMARKS Location: PANORAMA [+6] |
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| 9:40am - 9:50am |
CHAIR ADDRESS Location: PANORAMA [+6] |
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| 9:50am - 10:30am |
IIPC ACTIVITIES AND FUNDING PROGRAMS Location: PANORAMA [+6] |
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| 10:30am - 11:00am |
COFFEE BREAK Location: PANORAMA: FOYER [+6] ☕️🥐 Drinks and snacks will be served in Panorama Foyer (Floor +6). |
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| 11:00am - 12:00pm |
TOOLS Location: PANORAMA [+6] |
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| 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
LUNCH Location: PANORAMA: FOYER [+6] 🍴 Lunch will be served in Panorama Foyer (Floor +6). |
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| 1:00pm - 3:00pm |
TOOLS SUSTAINABILITY FRAMEWORK Location: PANORAMA [+6] |
TRAINING WORKING GROUP Location: STUDIO [+6] |
RESEARCH WORKING GROUP Location: ATELIER [+2] |
CONTENT DEVELOPMENT WORKING GROUP Location: AQUARIUM [+2] 1. Updates on the Working Group
2. Curators Update - WWII 80th Anniversary Commemoration by Melissa Wertheimer - 2026 Winter Olympics and National Committees by Helena Byrne - Street Art Collection by Alex Thurman - War in Ukraine by Anaïs Crinière-Boizet and Vladimir Tybin - Southeast Asia Arts Websites by Shereen Tay 3. Open discussion: how to promote the use of collaborative collections |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm |
COFFEE BREAK Location: PANORAMA: FOYER [+6] ☕️🥐 Drinks and snacks will be served in Panorama Foyer (Floor +6). |
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