WADL 2017 webpage

Web Archiving and Digital Libraries
JCDL 2017 (http://2017.jcdl.org), Toronto, Canada; 6/22-6/23 Workshop, Room 205, Faculty of Information, 140 St. George Street, U. Toronto

Please see approved workshop proposal at: http://fox.cs.vt.edu/WADLjcdl17.pdf

Please see last year's WADL 2016 webpage. That workshop led in part to a special issue of International Journal on Digital Libraries. There might be another similar issue partially based on WADL 2017.

SCHEDULE:

Featured Talk: Ashley Sands, Senior Library Program Officer, Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), USA: National Digital Platform (NDP), funding opportunities, and examples of currently funded projects

Thursday, June 22, 2-5pm

Time	Activity, Presenters/Authors	Title of Presentation
2:00	Welcome, Introductions	Everyone speaks!
2:10	Ashley Sands, IMLS	FEATURED TALK: National Digital Platform (NDP)
2:40	Lightening Talks	5 minutes each
	Ross Spencer	Poster 1: HTTPreserve – Web Preservation in Documentary Heritage
	Muhammad Umar Qasim	Poster 2: WARC-Portal: A Tool for Exploring the Past
	Mat Kelly, Lulwah Alkwai, Sawood Alam, Michael Nelson, Michele Weigle, Herbert Van De Sompel	Poster 3: Impact of URI Canonicalization on Memento Count
	Saket Vishwasrao, Zhiwu Xie, Edward Fox	Poster 4: Web Archiving Through In-Memory Page Cache
3:00	BREAK	Refreshments, viewing posters and demos
3:20	Ian Milligan, Nick Ruest, Ryan Deschamps	Paper 1: Building a National Web Archiving Collaborative Platform: The Web Archives for Longitudinal Knowledge Project
3:45	Sawood Alam, Mat Kelly, Michele Weigle, Michael Nelson	Paper 2: Avoiding Zombies in Archival Replay Using ServiceWorker
4:10	Ziquan Wang, Borui Lin, Ian Milligan, Jimmy Lin	Paper 3: Topic Shifts Between Two US Presidential Administrations
4:35	Brenda Reyes Ayala	Paper 4: Web archives: A preliminary exploration of user expectations vs. reality
5:00	Close of Session 1, Dinner optional	WADL attendees are encouraged to gather informally for dinner to continue discussions.

Friday, June 23, 9-12pm

Time	Activity, Presenters/Authors	Title of Presentation
9:00	Emily Maemura, Dawn Walker, Matt Price, Maya Anjur-Dietrich	PANEL: Challenges for Grassroots Web Archiving of Environmental Data
9:30	Tom J. Smyth	Paper 5: Legal Deposit, Collection Development, Preservation, and Web Archiving at Library and Archives Canada
9:55	Muhammad Umar Qasim and Sam-Chin Li	Paper 6: Working Together Toward a Shared Vision : Canadian Government Information Digital Preservation Network (CGI DPN)
10:20	BREAK	Discussions, Networking
10:40	Nick Ruest	Paper 7: Strategies for Collecting, Processing, and Analyzing Tweets from Large Newsworthy Events
11:05	Saurabh Chakravarty, Eric Williamson, Edward Fox	Paper 8: Classification of Tweets using Augmented Training
11:30	Closing discussion	Plans for future activities and collaborations

Description:

Selected works will likely be published in a special issue of IEEE TCDL Bulletin.
This will explore the integration of web archiving and digital libraries, over the complete life cycle: creation/authoring, uploading/publishing in the Web, …
It will cover all topics of interest, including but not limited to:

Archiving (events)	Big data	Classification, clustering
Client/proxy/server side collecting	Crawling (focused)	Curation, quality control
Databases / collections (of webpages)	Discovery	Extraction & analysis
Filling gaps	Globalization, languages	Social sciences
Linking archives	Metadata	Mobile devices
Network science	Preservation	Resource description
Standards, protocols	Systems, tools	Tweet collections and connections

Objectives:

to continue to build the community of people integrating web archiving & DLs
to help attendees learn about useful methods, systems, and software in this area
to help chart future research and improved practice in this area
to promote synergistic efforts including collaborative projects and proposals
to produce an archival publication that will help advance technology and practice

Workshop Co-chairs:

Chair, Edward A. Fox, Professor and Director Digital Library Research Laboratory, Virginia Tech, fox@vt.edu http://fox.cs.vt.edu, +1-540-231-5113
Co-chair, Zhiwu Xie, Professor, Director of Digital Library Development, Virginia Tech Libraries, zhiwuxie@vt.edu, +1-540-231-4453
Co-chair, Martin Klein, Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library, mklein@lanl.gov, +1-505-667-5809

Program Committee:

Jefferson Bailey, Internet Archive, jefferson@archive.org
Mohamed Magdy Farag, Arab Academy for Science and Technology, mmagdy@aast.edu
Joshua Finnell, Los Alamos National Laboratory, joshfinnell@lanl.gov
Vinay Goel, Internet Archive, vinay@archive.org
Andrea Goethals, Harvard Library, andrea_goethals@harvard.edu
Gina Jones, Library of Congress, gjon@loc.gov
Deborah Kempe, Frick Art Reference Library, kempe@frick.org
Lauren Ko, University of North Texas Libraries, lauren.ko@unt.edu
Frank McCown, Harding University, fmccown@harding.edu
Michael Nelson, Old Dominion Univ., mln@cs.odu.edu
Thomas Risse, L3S Research Center, Leibniz Universitat Hannover, risse@L3S.de
Nicholas Taylor, Stanford U. Libraries, ntay@stanford.edu
Matthew Weber, Rutgers U., matthew.weber@rutgers.edu

Closely related events and results:

Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL'15), 24 June, at JCDL 2015, see website and proceedings in a special issue of the IEEE TCDL Bulletin, V. 11, Issue 2, Oct. 2015
Working with Internet Archives for Research (WIRE 2014) NSF workshop, 17-18 June 2014, Cambridge, MA – see http://wp.comminfo.rutgers.edu/nsfia/
Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL’13), 25-26 July, at JCDL 2013, see http://www.ctrnet.net/sites/default/files/JCDL2013WorkshopWebArchiving20130603.pdf and report in SIGIR Forum http://sigir.org/files/forum/2013D/p128.pdf
Web Archive Globalization Workshop, WAG 2011 – see http://cs.harding.edu/wag2011/ , with 4 organizers plus 5 presenters and about 20 participants, held in Ottawa after JCDL 2011 (June 16-17)
Ongoing work by attendees in this area, growth in collaborative activity involving the Internet Archive, and specific community building successes like the Web Archive Cooperative – see http://infolab.stanford.edu/wac/
Annual meetings of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC), partner meetings of the Internet Archive (Archive-It), and ten workshops held with ECDL/TPDL: International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW), 2001-2010

OLD: Submissions (please provide contact and supporting info in <= 1 page):

EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wadl2017
Due: April 24, 2017
Notifications: May 13, 2017
Categories (pick one of the 3) are:
Poster/Demonstration + lightening talk
20 min. presentation + 10 min. Q&A
30 min. panel with interactive plenary discussion