[Air-L] IIPC WEB ARCHIVING CONFERENCE 2018: Call for Papers --- DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 12 MARCH ---

[Alex Thurman]

Greetings AOIR list members. On behalf of the IIPC Web Archiving 
Conference program committee, I'd like to encourage you to submit paper 
proposals! Note the new deadline of 12 March 2018.

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*The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 12 March 2018.*

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*IIPC WEB ARCHIVING CONFERENCE 2018: Call for Papers*

*WEB ARCHIVING HISTORIES AND FUTURES*

*National Library of New Zealand*

*Wellington 13–15 November 2018*

Web archiving is now into its third decade of practice and there is much 
experience to reflect upon and many achievements to acknowledge. It is 
also a critical time to look to the future and to the technical, legal, 
ethical and organisational challenges that saving the web for citizens 
and for researchers continue to present. As established web archives 
mature and new initiatives emerge, web archive artefacts and data become 
more valuable for our understanding of societies, politics, cultures and 
economies in a world of increasingly contested narratives.

In 2018 theInternational Internet Preservation Consortium 
<http://netpreserve.org>(IIPC) will celebrate 15 years as the premier 
international body fostering the development of web archiving tools, 
standards, practice and research. For the first time in a decade, the 
IIPC’s annual web archiving conference will come to Australasia, 
providing a rare opportunity for web curators, librarians, archivists, 
historians, humanists, researchers, developers, computer scientists and 
others interested in the preservation of world’s web heritage to come 
together at this international forum in the southern hemisphere.

Proposals on all aspects of web archiving practice as well as 
researching and using web archives are invited. Particularly welcome are 
proposals related to the Australasian, Asia Pacific and southern 
hemisphere regions; proposals from the perspective of new users and 
researchers; and proposals addressing the major conference themes of 
histories and futures. Potential topics include:

*Building web archives*

  * Harvesting approaches, tools and challenges
  * Collection development and curation
  * Legal and ethical issues in collecting content

*Maintaining web archive content and operations*

  * Preservation and sustainability issues and strategies
  * Institutional and organizational structures and approaches
  * Collection assessment and metrics
  * Collection management tools
  * Description and access

*Using and researching web archives*

  * User experience and discovery
  * Legal, ethical or social aspects in accessing content
  * Tools, APIs and indexing for researching web archives
  * Research opportunities and challenges presented by web archives

*Web archive histories and futures*

  * Initiatives and collaborations
  * Web archive stories and histories
  * National web domains
  * Web archives as repositories of ‘truth’

The programme committee invite proposals for:

  * 30 minute presentations (i.e., 20 minutes for presentation plus 10
    minutes for questions)
  * 60 minute panel discussions or multi-presentations
  * Conference themed workshops (proposed length to be agreed with
    organisers)
  * Tutorials focusing on particular tools (proposed length to be agreed
    with organisers)
  * Posters with accompanying 5 minute lightning talks

Proposals for presentations and panels must be submitted as an abstract 
of between 300 and 500 words. Proposals for workshops and tutorials 
should be 800 to 1,000 words and include information about coordinators, 
format, target participant numbers and technical requirements. Proposals 
should demonstrate how the presentation, panel or workshop contributes 
to understanding web archiving histories or futures and the general 
themes relating to building, maintaining and researching web archives. 
Proposal should be accompanied by 3 to 5 keywords. Based on the 
abstracts, the programme committee may invite the submission of full 
papers for future publication.

Please submit your proposals using 
EasyChair*http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iipc2018*

For questions, please e-mail *iipc2018 at iipc.simplelists.com* 
<mailto:iipc2018 at iipc.simplelists.com>

The deadline for submissions is *12 March 2018*. All submissions will be 
reviewed by the WAC18 Programme Committee and submitters will be 
notified by *16 April 2018*.

For more information and updates, see:

*http://netpreserve.org/ga2018* 
<http://netpreserve.org/ga2018/>***@NetPreserve* 
<https://twitter.com/NetPreserve>*****#iipcWAC18* 
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/iipcwac18>



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