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International Internet Preservation Consortium#Past projects

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The International Internet Preservation Consortium is an international organization of libraries and other organizations established to coordinate efforts to preserve internet content for the future.{{Cite press release| title = International Internet Preservation Consortium| publisher = International Internet Preservation Consortium| date = May 5, 2004 | url = http://www.netpreserve.org/press/pr20040505.php | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501092823/http://netpreserve.org/press/pr20040505.php| archive-date = May 1, 2012}} It was founded in July 2003 by 12 participating institutions, and had grown to 35 members by January 2010.{{cite web|title=Web Archives Registry Launched |url=http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100129news_article_webreg.html |work=News & Events |date=January 29, 2010 |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=2011-04-17 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110408170110/http://www.digitalpreservation.gov//news/2010/20100129news_article_webreg.html |archive-date=April 8, 2011 }} As of January 2022, there are 52 members.

Membership is open to archives, museums, libraries (including national libraries), and cultural heritage institutions.{{cite web| title = Mission & Goals {{!}} IIPC| work = www.netpreserve.org| publisher = International Internet Preservation Consortium| url = http://www.netpreserve.org/about-us/mission-goals| access-date = 2015-09-12| archive-date = 2017-06-06| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170606134927/http://netpreserve.org/about-us/mission-goals| url-status = dead}}{{Cite journal| last = Hiiragi| first = Wasuke |author2=Shigeo Sugimoto |author3=Tetsuo Sakaguchi | title = Web archiving in the world - International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) and their activities | journal = The Journal of Information Science and Technology Association | volume = 58| issue = 8| location = Japan}}

Members

= National libraries =

Participating national libraries and archives include:

= Participating organisations =

Other participating organizations include:{{cite web | title = Members | publisher = International Internet Preservation Consortium | date = 2020 | url = http://www.netpreserve.org/about-us/members}}

= Past members =

WebCite used to be, but is no longer, a member of the IIPC.{{cite web|title=WebCite Consortium FAQ |work=webcitation.org |publisher=WebCite |url=http://webcitation.org/faq |url-status=live |archive-url=http://www.webcitation.org/faq |archive-date=2008-08-28 }}{{cbignore}} In a 2012 message, its founder Gunther Eysenbach commented that "WebCite has no funding, and IIPC charges 4000 Euro/yr in membership fees."{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/eysenbach/status/212380809464782849 |title=Twitter post |date=2012-06-11 |access-date=2013-03-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140107223809/https://twitter.com/eysenbach/status/212380809464782849 |archive-date=2014-01-07 |url-status=dead }}

Projects

The IIPC sponsors and collaborates on a number of different projects with its member organizations.

=Current projects=

  • Support for transitioning to pywb (Python Wayback).{{cite web|publisher=International Internet Preservation Consortium|title=Support for transitioning to pywb|url=https://netpreserve.org/projects/pywb|access-date=24 January 2021}}
  • Collaborative Collections: IIPC members are collaborating to build public web archive collections based on transnational themes or events of mutual interest. Topics of existing collections include: European Refugee Crisis, Intergovernmental Organizations, Olympics, World War I Commemoration, Climate Change, Artificial Intelligence, and Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).{{cite web|publisher=International Internet Preservation Consortium|title=Collaborative Collections|url=http://netpreserve.org/projects/collaborative-collections/|access-date=24 January 2021}}
  • Memento: aggregate metadata of the IIPC archives and provide access to Memento.{{cite web|publisher=International Internet Preservation Consortium|title=Memento|url=http://www.netpreserve.org/projects/memento|access-date=17 March 2014}}

IIPC also maintains an electronic mailing list open to anyone interested in issues associated with web harvesting, archiving, and quality maintenance issues.{{cite web|title=Web Curators Mailing List |publisher=International Internet Preservation Consortium |url=http://netpreserve.org/about-us/iipc-mailing-list |access-date=2017-10-17 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140125102414/http://netpreserve.org/web-curators-mailing-list |archive-date=2014-01-25 }}

=Past projects=

  • Developing Bloom Filters for Web Archives’ Holdings.{{cite web|publisher=International Internet Preservation Consortium|title=Developing Bloom Filters for Web Archives' Holdings|url=https://netpreserve.org/projects/bloom-filters/|access-date=24 January 2021}}
  • Improving the Dark and Stormy Archives Framework by Summarizing the Collections of the National Library of Australia{{cite web|publisher=International Internet Preservation Consortium|title=Improving the Dark and Stormy Archives Framework by Summarizing the Collections of the National Library of Australia|url=https://netpreserve.org/projects/dark-and-stormy-archives/|access-date=24 January 2021}}
  • LinkGate: Core Functionality and Future Use Cases.{{cite web|publisher=International Internet Preservation Consortium|title=LinkGate: Core Functionality and Future Use Cases|url=https://netpreserve.org/projects/LinkGate/|access-date=24 January 2021}}
  • Asking questions with web archives – introductory notebooks for historians: The project output is a set of 16 Jupyter notebooks that demonstrate how specific historical research questions can be explored by analysing data from web archives.{{cite web|publisher=International Internet Preservation Consortium|title=Asking questions with web archives – introductory notebooks for historians|url=https://netpreserve.org/projects/jupyter-notebooks-for-historians/|access-date=24 January 2021}}{{cite web|publisher=GLAM Workbench|title=Web Archives|url=https://glam-workbench.github.io/web-archives/|access-date=24 January 2021}}{{cite web|publisher=International Internet Preservation Consortium|title=IIPC RSS webinar: Tim Sherratt: Jupyter notebooks for web archives|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVidh_wexoo/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211220/rVidh_wexoo |archive-date=2021-12-20 |url-status=live|access-date=24 January 2021}}{{cbignore}}
  • IIPC sponsored a project on "cross-archival search strategies" which included the creation of an archive focused on the 2010 Winter Olympics.{{cite web|title=2010 Winter Olympics |publisher=California Digital Library |year=2010 |url=http://webarchives.cdlib.org/a/2010olympics/about |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110902031929/http://webarchives.cdlib.org/a/2010olympics/about |archive-date=2011-09-02 }}
  • Starting in 2006, the National Library of New Zealand and the British Library developed the Web Curator Tool, an open-source workflow management system for selective web archiving. Since 2017 the Royal Library of the Netherlands has collaboratively developed the tool with the National Library of New Zealand. Version 3.2.1{{cite web|title=The Web Curator Tool Release History |url=https://webcuratortool.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/release-notes.html |publisher=ReadTheDocs |access-date=2024-10-30 }} was released in August 2024, and is available at GitHub.{{cite web|title=Web Curator Tool |url=https://github.com/WebCuratorTool/webcurator |publisher=GitHub |access-date=2024-10-30 }} The Web Curator Tool is built upon Java and utilizes Internet Archive’s technology, the Heritrix web archiving crawler, and replay tools such as OpenWayback{{cite web|publisher=International Internet Preservation Consortium|title=OpenWayback|url=https://github.com/iipc/openwayback|access-date=29 October 2024}} and Pywb.{{cite web|publisher=GitHub|title=pywb|url=https://github.com/webrecorder/pywb|access-date=29 October 2024}}
  • IIPC Web Archiving Doctoral Support Award: grant to provide three years of funding for a student to earn a PhD in Interdisciplinary Information Science at The University of North Texas College of Information.{{cite web|publisher=International Internet Preservation Consortium |title=PhD Sponsorship |url=http://www.netpreserve.org/projects/phd-sponsorship |access-date=17 March 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141017173645/http://netpreserve.org/projects/phd-sponsorship |archive-date=17 October 2014 }}
  • IIPC Member Staff Exchange: onsite training by experts for participating IIPC members to use Heritrix 3 web crawler.{{cite web|publisher=International Internet Preservation Consortium |title=Staff Exchange |url=http://www.netpreserve.org/projects/staff-exchange |access-date=17 March 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141107185156/http://netpreserve.org/projects/staff-exchange |archive-date=7 November 2014 }}
  • Working group on Statistics and Quality Indicators for Web Archiving: development of guidelines on the management and evaluation of Web archiving activities and products.{{cite web|publisher=International Internet Preservation Consortium |title=Statistics and Quality Indicators for Web Archiving |url=http://www.netpreserve.org/projects/statistics-and-quality-indicators-web-archiving |access-date=17 March 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141107185201/http://netpreserve.org/projects/statistics-and-quality-indicators-web-archiving |archive-date=7 November 2014 }}

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External links

  • [http://www.netpreserve.org/ International Internet Preservation Consortium]

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Category:History of the Internet