WADL 2018 homepage

Web Archiving and Digital Libraries
Workshop at JCDL 2018 (http://2018.jcdl.org)
Fort Worth, TX, USA

Please see the approved WADL 2018 workshop proposal.

Please also see last year's WADL 2017 homepage and the homepage of the 2016 edition of WADL. That workshop led in part to a special issue of International Journal on Digital Libraries.
We fully intend to publish a very similar IJDL issue based on WADL 2018 contributions.

SCHEDULE:

Featured Talk by Weigle, Michele C. (mweigle@cs.odu.edu): Enabling Personal Use of Web Archives

Wednesday, June 6, 10:30am-5pm

Time	Activity, Presenters/Authors	Title of Presentation
10:30	Organizers and everyone speaking	Opening, Introductions
10:45	Zhiwu Xie et al.	IMLS project panel
11:45	John Berlin, Michael Nelson and Michele Weigle	Swimming In A Sea Of JavaScript, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love High-Fidelity Replay
12:15	Get boxes and return	Lunch
1:00	Liuqing Li and Edward Fox	A Study of Historical Short URLs in Event Collections of Tweets
1:30	Keynote by Michele Weigle	Enabling Personal Use of Web Archives
2:30	Libby Hemphill, Susan Leonard and Margaret Hedstrom	Developing a Social Media Archive at ICPSR
3:00	Posters: Littman Justin; Sawood Alam, Mat Kelly, Michele Weigle and Michael Nelson	Supporting social media research at scale; A Survey of Archival Replay Banners
3:15	Discussions around posters	Break
3:30	Mohamed Aturban, Michael Nelson and Michele Weigle	It is Hard to Compute Fixity on Archived Web Pages
4:00	Mat Kelly, Sawood Alam, Michael Nelson and Michele Weigle	Client-Assisted Memento Aggregation Using the Prefer Header
4:30	Closing discussion	Plans for future activities and collaborations

Description:

The 2018 edition of the Workshop on Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) will explore the integration of Web archiving and digital libraries. The workshop aims at addressing aspects covering the entire life cycle of digital resources and will also explore areas such as community building and ethical questions around Web archiving.

In addition, the chairs will initiate the workshop proceedings being published in a special issue of IEEE TCDL Bulletin.

WADL 2018 will cover all topics of interest, including but not limited to:

Archival Metadata, Description, Classification	Archival Standards, Protocols, Systems, and Tools	Collection Building
Community Building	Crawling of Dynamic and Mobile Content	Discovery of Archived Resources
Diversity in Web Archives	Ethics in Web Archiving	Extraction and Analysis of Archival Records
Focused Crawling	Social Media Archiving	Special Event Archiving

Objectives:

to continue to build the community of people integrating Web archiving & digital libraries
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, Martin Klein, Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library, mklein@lanl.gov,
Co-chair, Edward A. Fox, Professor and Director Digital Library Research Laboratory, Virginia Tech, fox@vt.edu http://fox.cs.vt.edu,
Co-chair, Zhiwu Xie, Professor, Director of Digital Library Development, Virginia Tech Libraries, zhiwuxie@vt.edu,

Program Committee:

Jefferson Bailey jefferson@archive.org Internet Archive
Justin Brunelle jbrunelle008@gmail.com Old Dominion University
Sumitra Duncan duncan@frick.org Frick Art Reference Library
Joshua Finnell joshfinnell@gmail.com Colgate University
Abbie Grotke abgr@loc.gov Library of Congress
Olga Holownia olga.holownia@bl.uk British Library
Gina Jones gjon@loc.gov Library of Congress
Lauren Ko lauren.ko@unt.edu UNT Libraries
Frank McCown fmccown@harding.edu Harding University
Michael Nelson mln@cs.odu.edu Old Dominion University
Nicholas Taylor ntay@stanford.edu Stanford Libraries

Other closely related events and results:

Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL'16), 22-23 June, at JCDL 2016, see website and proceedings in a special issue of the IEEE TCDL Bulletin, V. 13, Issue 1, April 2017
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

Submissions (please provide contact and supporting info in <= 2 pages):

EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wadl2018
Due: April 2, 2018
Notifications: April 17, 2018
Please use the ACM Proceedings template.
Categories: (pick one of the three and identify it in the submission)
20 min. presentation + Q&A
Poster/Demonstration + lightning talk
30 min. panel with interactive plenary discussion