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An Introduction to the International Internet Preservation Consortium Mary Pitt Programme and Communications Officer

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An Introduction to the International Internet Preservation Consortium

Mary Pitt

Programme and Communications Officer

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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

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Membership Distribution

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Membership Breakdown

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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

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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

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IIPC Timeline

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Members’ Web Archives

LightDark

Broad

Selective

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Selective Light

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Full Text Search

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Kangaroo Industry Assoc. Australia August 2000

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Broad, Light

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URL Search

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Gateway to Iceland 2004

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Selective Dark

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Broad Dark

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Projects

• Technical and Educational

• Flexible funding models

• Short and long term

• Formal projects and informal collaborations

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Sponsoring PhD Student

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Wayback Development Re‐Launch

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Memento

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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

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Current State of Web Archiving

• Archives fragmented 

• Some dark

• Starting to stick together

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Goals

Underlying data sets accessible for data mining and analysis

Reassembled and fully accessible

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www.netpreserve.org