Missing links : the enduring web

JISC, the DPC and the UK Web Archiving Consortium
give early notice of:
missing links : the enduring web
21 July 2009 The British Library Conference Centre.

The web runs at risk.  Our generation has witnessed
a revolution in human communications on a trajectory
with the origins the written word and language
itself.  Early web pages have an historical importance
with prehistoric cave paintings or proto-historic pressed
clay ciphers.  And they are just as fragile.

Key issues for long-term access and preservation of web
resources remain unresolved.
How can content creators make sure their creation is
durable?
Who is responsible for web content through time?
How do web archives relate to data curation and
traditional archives?
What audiences should web archives support and what
does this mean for selection, ingest and preservation?
Are preservation managers aware of the practical
requirements of web managers?
Are web managers thinking about the long term?
What will the web be like as an historical source,
and what use will be made of it by future generations?
How will they validate it? How will they cite it? What
are our missing links? How can these be filled?
Sponsored by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC)
and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
the six partners of the UK Web Archiving Consortium
(British Library, National Library of Wales, JISC,
Wellcome Library, The National Archives and the
National Library of Scotland) are organising
a joint workshop on the 21st July 2009 at the BL
Conference Centre, Euston Road, London.

This event will bring together key stakeholders -
web managers, archive managers, preservation experts,
national libraries, web archivists and content providers
- for practical and focussed discussion on shared
perspectives, requirements, problems and solutions.
Formal presentations and case studies
will be presented with an opportunity for posters and
demonstrations of tools. The day will close with a plenary
discussion, and we intend it to support a
DPC-commissioned Technology Watch Report.

The event will be free of charge.

Why should you come?

Help to shape the UK's web archiving and preservation
agenda
Share your preservations concerns and aspirations.
Learn from organisations currently preserving websites.
Understand new services and projects working in web
archiving.
Anticipate the evolution of a rapidly changing field
Contribute your web archiving expertise to the repository
community
Put the date in your diary and register your interest in
advance.
Look out for the full call for registration online.

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