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International Internet Preservation Consortium

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International Internet Preservation Consortium
AbbreviationIIPC
FormationJuly 2003;20 years ago(2003-07)
PurposeAcquire, preserve and make accessible knowledge and information from the Internet for future generations everywhere, promoting global exchange and international relations.[1]
Websitehttp://netpreserve.org/

TheInternational Internet Preservation Consortiumis an international organization of libraries and other organizations established to coordinateefforts to preserve internet contentfor the future.[2]It was founded in July 2003 by 12 participating institutions,[1]and had grown to 35 members by January 2010.[3]As of January 2022, there are 52 members.

Membership is open to archives, museums, libraries (includingnational libraries), and cultural heritage institutions.[1][4]

Web Curator Tool
Original author(s)National Library of New Zealand/British Library
Developer(s)Oakleigh Consulting
Initial releaseSeptember 2006;17 years ago(2006-09)
Stable release
1.6.1 / May 9, 2014;10 years ago(2014-05-09)
PlatformJava
TypeSelectiveweb harvesting
LicenseApache LicenseV2.0
Websitewebcuratortool.org
[5][6]

Members[edit]

National libraries[edit]

Participating national libraries and archives include:[7]

Participating organisations[edit]

Other participating organizations include:[7]

Past members[edit]

WebCiteused to be, but is no longer, a member of the IIPC.[8]In a 2012 message, its founder Gunther Eysenbach commented that "WebCite has no funding, and IIPC charges 4000 Euro/yr in membership fees."[9]

Projects[edit]

The IIPC sponsors and collaborates on a number of different projects with its member organizations.

Current projects[edit]

  • Support for transitioning to pywb (PythonWayback).[10]
  • Collaborative Collections: IIPC members are collaborating to build public web archive collections based on transnational themes or events of mutual interest. Topics of existing collections include: European Refugee Crisis, Intergovernmental Organizations, Olympics, World War I Commemoration, Climate Change, Artificial Intelligence, and Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).[11]
  • Memento:aggregate metadata of the IIPC archives and provide access to Memento.[12]

IIPC also maintains anelectronic mailing listopen to anyone interested in issues associated withweb harvesting,archiving, and quality maintenance issues.[13]

Past projects[edit]

  • Developing Bloom Filters for Web Archives’ Holdings.[14]
  • Improving the Dark and Stormy Archives Framework by Summarizing the Collections of theNational Library of Australia[15]
  • LinkGate: Core Functionality and Future Use Cases.[16]
  • Asking questions with web archives – introductory notebooks for historians: The project output is a set of 16Jupyternotebooks that demonstrate how specific historical research questions can be explored by analysing data from web archives.[17][18][19]
  • IIPC sponsored a project on "cross-archival search strategies" which included the creation of an archive focused on the2010 Winter Olympics.[20]
  • Starting in 2006, theNational Library of New Zealandand theBritish Librarydeveloped the Web Curator Tool, anopen-sourceworkflow management systemfor selective web archiving.[21]Version 1.6 was released on December 5, 2012, and is available atSourceForge.[22]The Web Curator Tool is built upon Java technologies such asApache Tomcat,theSpring FrameworkandHibernate,andInternet Archivestechnologies such as theHeritrixweb archiving crawler, theNutchWAX web archive full-text search engine and theWayback Machine.[23]
  • IIPC Web Archiving Doctoral Support Award: grant to provide three years of funding for a student to earn a PhD in Interdisciplinary Information Science at The University of North Texas College of Information.[24]
  • IIPC Member Staff Exchange: onsite training by experts for participating IIPC members to useHeritrix3 web crawler.[25]
  • Working group on Statistics and Quality Indicators for Web Archiving: development of guidelines on the management and evaluation of Web archiving activities and products.[26]

References[edit]

  1. ^abc"Mission & Goals | IIPC".www.netpreserve.org.International Internet Preservation Consortium. Archived fromthe originalon 2017-06-06.Retrieved2015-09-12.
  2. ^"International Internet Preservation Consortium"(Press release). International Internet Preservation Consortium. May 5, 2004. Archived fromthe originalon May 1, 2012.
  3. ^"Web Archives Registry Launched".News & Events.Library of Congress.January 29, 2010.Archivedfrom the original on April 8, 2011.Retrieved2011-04-17.
  4. ^Hiiragi, Wasuke; Shigeo Sugimoto; Tetsuo Sakaguchi. "Web archiving in the world - International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) and their activities".The Journal of Information Science and Technology Association.58(8). Japan.
  5. ^"Web Curator Tool".SourceForge.net. Archived fromthe originalon 13 October 2014.Retrieved25 February2021.
  6. ^"Web Curator Tool".sourceforge.net. Archived fromthe originalon 13 November 2014.Retrieved25 February2021.
  7. ^ab"Members".International Internet Preservation Consortium. 2020.
  8. ^"WebCite Consortium FAQ".webcitation.org.WebCite.Archivedfrom the original on 2008-08-28.
  9. ^"Twitter post".2012-06-11. Archived fromthe originalon 2014-01-07.Retrieved2013-03-10.
  10. ^"Support for transitioning to pywb".International Internet Preservation Consortium.Retrieved24 January2021.
  11. ^"Collaborative Collections".International Internet Preservation Consortium.Retrieved24 January2021.
  12. ^"Memento".International Internet Preservation Consortium.Retrieved17 March2014.
  13. ^"Web Curators Mailing List".International Internet Preservation Consortium.Archivedfrom the original on 2014-01-25.Retrieved2017-10-17.
  14. ^"Developing Bloom Filters for Web Archives' Holdings".International Internet Preservation Consortium.Retrieved24 January2021.
  15. ^"Improving the Dark and Stormy Archives Framework by Summarizing the Collections of the National Library of Australia".International Internet Preservation Consortium.Retrieved24 January2021.
  16. ^"LinkGate: Core Functionality and Future Use Cases".International Internet Preservation Consortium.Retrieved24 January2021.
  17. ^"Asking questions with web archives – introductory notebooks for historians".International Internet Preservation Consortium.Retrieved24 January2021.
  18. ^"Web Archives".GLAM Workbench.Retrieved24 January2021.
  19. ^"IIPC RSS webinar: Tim Sherratt: Jupyter notebooks for web archives".International Internet Preservation Consortium.Archivedfrom the original on 2021-12-20.Retrieved24 January2021.
  20. ^"2010 Winter Olympics".California Digital Library. 2010.Archivedfrom the original on 2011-09-02.
  21. ^"Web Curator Tool".National Library of New Zealand.Archivedfrom the original on 2011-05-22.Retrieved2011-04-17.
  22. ^"The Web Curator Tool Release History".SourceForge.Archivedfrom the original on 2013-02-27.Retrieved2013-03-10.
  23. ^"British Library - Developing Enhancements to the Web Curator Tool".Oakleigh Consulting.Retrieved2011-04-17.
  24. ^"PhD Sponsorship".International Internet Preservation Consortium.Archivedfrom the original on 17 October 2014.Retrieved17 March2014.
  25. ^"Staff Exchange".International Internet Preservation Consortium.Archivedfrom the original on 7 November 2014.Retrieved17 March2014.
  26. ^"Statistics and Quality Indicators for Web Archiving".International Internet Preservation Consortium.Archivedfrom the original on 7 November 2014.Retrieved17 March2014.

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