WADL 2023 Homepage

Web Archiving and Digital Libraries — a Workshop in conjunction with the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2023.

Date: Friday, June 30, 2023

Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

See towards the bottom of this page for details about the meeting.

We welcome broad attendance; please contact the co-chairs for any questions you may have.

Please see the approved WADL 2023 workshop description from the JCDL proceedings as well as the workshop page hosted by the conference.

Please also refer to past WADL homepages: 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, and 2016. Past workshop proceedings can be found from: WADL 2017-22, Pre 2016.
Prior workshops have led in part to a special issue of the International Journal on Digital Libraries; see the 2018 Guest editors’ introduction to the special issue on web archiving


Submissions:

Description:

WADL 2023 will continue the WADL tradition to provide a forum and collaboration platform for international leaders from academia, industry, and government to discuss challenges, and share insights, in designing and implementing concepts, tools, and standards in the realm of web archiving. Together, we will explore the integration of web archiving and digital libraries, over the complete digital resource life cycle: creation/authoring, uploading, publishing on the web, crawling/collecting, compressing, formatting, storing, preserving, analyzing, indexing, supporting access, etc.

WADL 2023 will cover all topics of interest and specifically invite contributions from practitioners. Topics include but are not limited to:

Objectives:

Workshop Co-chairs:

Program Committee:

Meeting logistics and links:

WADL 2023 Schedule (pending) using MT

== Opening Session (Moderator Mat Kelly) ==
9:00 AM Welcome, Introductions, Tech Ironing (everyone speaks)

== Talks 1 (Moderator Brenda Reyes Ayala) ==
9:15 AM
Synthesizing Daily Top News Summaries From Archived International TV
Channels Using LLMs
Sawood Alam, Mark Graham, Roger Macdonald and Kalev Leetaru

Discussion
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Identifying and Analyzing Twitter Data Related to Tunisia
Ryan Gniadek, Sraavya Gudavalli, Victoria Hardy, Steven Ruckert,
Mohamed Farag, Chreston Miller, Andrea Kavanaugh and Satvik Chekuri

Discussion
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Moderator: Mat Kelly
Breakout Sessions, sample topics:
* Ideas for a funded project.
* Ideas for a special issue publication.
* How to train more people to be web archivists and/or users of web
archives.
* Listing research challenges related to web archiving.
* Discussion of topics suggested on the spreadsheet

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM Break

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
IPARO: InterPlanetary Archival Record Object for Decentralized Web
Archiving and Replay
Sawood Alam

Discussion
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Drop-in Talks
Anyone is open to present/discuss their work from JCDL, a budding
WADL-related topic they're working on.

Open Prompts 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM:
* Those in libraries: What are you doing in the web archiving area,
what problems do you face, what needs do you have?
* Entity extraction, possibly entity disambiguation/linking, and
likely want to discuss how such would allow connecting web archives
with various applications, as in digital humanities.

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM (per the JCDL schedule)
Break / Lunch

== Talks 2 (Moderator Zhiwu Xie) ==

1:30 PM - 1:40 PM
A Graduate Course in Web Archiving
Michael Nelson, Michele Weigle, Sue Kimmel, Jessica Ritchie and Rui
Ning

Discussion
1:40 PM - 1:50 PM

1:50 PM - 2:10 PM
TrendMachine: A Temporal Webpage Resilience Portal
Sawood Alam, Kritika Garg, Michele Weigle, Michael Nelson, Mark Graham
and Dietrich Ayala

2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Discussion

== R&D, publishing ideas, collaboration opportunities (Moderator Ed Fox) ==
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Closing Discussion (value in this workshop, suggestions for future
events/venues, next event planning)
3:00 PM - End

Last updated: 8:30pm Eastern time, 6/29/2023