Call for papers for the 8th International Web Archiving Workshop


Objectives:

IWAW will take place the 18th and 19th of September 2008, in conjunction with ECDL in Aarhus (Denmark) this year.
The workshop will provide as usual a cross domain overview on active research and practice in all domains concerned with the acquisition, maintenance and preservation of digital objects for long-term access, with a particular focus on web archiving and studies on effective usage of this type of archives.

Important Dates:

Paper submission: closed.

Notification of acceptance: June 30th, 2008

Camera-ready copy due: July 21th, 2008

Workshop: September 18th and 19th, 2008

Please post submission using ACM template.

Topics:

Case studies:
• Web Archiving Projects,
• Digital Archeology,
• Cyberculture Studies,
• Web Metrics,
• Web Publishing Models.

Data acquisition:
• Harvesting Technology, Focused Crawling,
• Deep Web Capture,
• Site Architecture Migration,
• Authenticity Control of Captured Documents.
• Acquisition of Dynamic Objects,
• Submission Systems,
• Data Ingest,
• Automated Metadata Capture.

Storage Models and Architecture:
• Hierarchical Storage Models,
• Redundant Storage,
• Distributed Storage,
• Storage Media Migration,
• Cost Models,
• Media Life-Time Analysis.

Digital Preservation:
• Conversion/Migration Strategies,
• Emulation Approaches,
• Data Abstraction Technologies,
• Self-Aware Objects,
• Testbeds, File Format Repositories,
• Document Functionality and Behaviour.

Access:
• Access Provision,
• Navigation,
• Web Indexing
• Collection Analysis,
• Information Retrieval,
• Interface Models.

Policy and Social Issues:
• Economics of Information,
• Intellectual Property Rights.
• Challenges and Caveats of Web Archives,
• Scenarios and Visions,
• Privacy Aspects


Workshop Officials:

Chair:
Julien Masanès (European Archive Foundation / e-mail : julien AT iwaw.net)
Andreas Rauber (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

Program Committee:

Bjarne Andersen (netarkivet.dk, Denmark)

Martha Anderson (Library of Congress, USA)

Sara Aubry (Bibliothèque nationale de France, France)

Andreas Aschenbrenner (SUB Goettingen , Germany)

Svein Arne Brygfjeld (National Library, Norway)

John Kunze (California Digital Library , USA)

Dieter Merkl (Vienna University of Technology , Austria)

Mark Middleton (Hanzo Archives , UK)

Gordon Mohr (Internet Archive , USA)

Kjetil Norvag (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

Philippe Rigaux (Université Paris Dauphine , France)

Steven M. Schneider (SUNY Institute of Technology , USA)