An introduction to the International Internet Preservation Consortium. Mary Pitt
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An Introduction to the International Internet Preservation Consortium
Mary Pitt
Programme and Communications Officer
Facts
• Started in 2003
• Now 44 member institutions
• Main event is annual General Assembly
• Runs technical and educational projects
• Raises profile of web archiving
• Connects the web archiving community day to day through website, mailing lists, social media
Membership Distribution
Membership Breakdown
Annual General Assembly
2013 Ljubljana, Scholarly Use of Web Archives2012 Washington, The Broad Value of Web Archiving2011 The Hague, Web Archiving out of the Box2010 Singapore, The Future of Web Archiving
Week in Spring2014 in ParisDifferent focus each year
Mission
http://netpreserve.org/about‐us/mission‐goals
What are we trying to avoid?• For Members
– Not knowing how to start– No best practice going forward– Re‐inventing the wheel– Costly development resource – Holes in their Archive
• For Web Archive Users:– Fragmented Archive– Hard to find out what’s in each fragment– Holes in retrieved websites – Large chunks of web lost completely– Archive deteriorates over time
IIPC Timeline
Members’ Web Archives
LightDark
Broad
Selective
Selective Light
Full Text Search
Kangaroo Industry Assoc. Australia August 2000
Broad, Light
URL Search
Gateway to Iceland 2004
Selective Dark
Broad Dark
Projects
• Technical and Educational
• Flexible funding models
• Short and long term
• Formal projects and informal collaborations
Sponsoring PhD Student
Wayback Development Re‐Launch
Memento
Benefits of Collaboration
• Imagine today’s live web as a pane of coloured glass.
• Imagine different instances going back in time being different coloured panes of glass
Current State of Web Archiving
• Archives fragmented
• Some dark
• Starting to stick together
Goals
Underlying data sets accessible for data mining and analysis
Reassembled and fully accessible
www.netpreserve.org