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The Web Archiving and Digital Libraries #WADL
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/WADL?src=hash> workshop submission deadline
has been extended to April 17th http://fox.cs.vt.edu/wadl2016.html
<https://t.co/ITjlzYxT1l>.

WADL 2016

Web Archiving and Digital Libraries
JCDL 2016 (http://www.jcdl2016.org), Rutgers University; 6/22-6/23 Workshop

Please see approved workshop proposal at:
http://fox.cs.vt.edu/WADLjcdl16.pdf

Submissions (please provide contact and supporting info in <= 1 page):

- EasyChair submission page:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wadl2016
- Due: April 17, 2016 (extended from original date April 3, 2016)
- Notifications: May 2, 2016
- Categories are:
  - Poster + lightening talk
  - Demonstration + lightening talk
  - 20 min. presentation + 10 min. Q&A
  - 30 min. panel with interactive plenary discussion
- Please indicate which one of these 4 categories best describes your
submission.

Description:

- Selected works will likely be published in a special issue of IEEE TCDL
Bulletin, and may lead to a journal publication next year in the
International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL). These results were the
case with works presented at WADL2015.
- This will explore the integration of web archiving and digital libraries,
over the complete life cycle: creation/authoring, uploading/publishing in
the Web, … issue of the
- It will cover all topics of interest, including but not limited to:

Archiving (events)
Big data
Classification, clustering
Client/proxy/server side collecting
Crawling (focused)
Curation, quality control
Databases / collections (of webpages)
Discovery
Extraction & analysis
Filling gaps
Globalization, languages
Social sciences
Linking archives
Metadata
Mobile devices
Network science
Preservation
Resource description
Standards, protocols
Systems, tools
Tweet collections and connections

Objectives:

- to continue to build the community of people integrating web archiving &
DLs
- to help attendees learn about useful methods, systems, and software in
this area
- to help chart future research and improved practice in this area
- to promote synergistic efforts including collaborative projects and
proposals
- to produce an archival publication that will help advance technology and
practice

Workshop Co-chairs:

- Chair, Edward A. Fox, Professor and Director Digital Library Research
Laboratory, Virginia Tech, [log in to unmask]://fox.cs.vt.edu, 540-231-5113
- Co-chair, Zhiwu Xie, [log in to unmask], Associate Professor and Technology
Development Librarian, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship,
University Libraries, Virginia Tech, 540-231-4453
- Co-chair, Martin Klein, UCLA, [log in to unmask]

Program Committee:

- Jefferson Bailey, Internet Archive, [log in to unmask]
- Mohamed Magdy Farig, Virginia Tech, [log in to unmask]
- Vinay Goel, Internet Archive, [log in to unmask]
- Gina Jones, Library of Congress, [log in to unmask]
- Deborah Kempe, Frick Art Reference Library, [log in to unmask]
- Frank McCown, Harding University, [log in to unmask]
- Michael Nelson, Old Dominion Univ., [log in to unmask]
- Christie Peterson, George Washington U. Libraries, [log in to unmask]
- Thomas Risse, L3S Research Center, Leibniz Universitat Hannover,
[log in to unmask]
- Nicholas Taylor, Stanford U., [log in to unmask]
- Matthew Weber, Rutgers U., [log in to unmask]
- Robert Wolven, Columbia U., [log in to unmask]

Closely related event and results:

- Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL'15), 24 June, at JCDL 2015, see
website and proceedings in a special issue of the IEEE TCDL Bulletin, V.
11, Issue 2, Oct. 2015
- Working with Internet Archives for Research (WIRE 2014) NSF workshop,
17-18 June 2014, Cambridge, MA – seehttp://wp.comminfo.rutgers.edu/nsfia/
- Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL’13), 25-26 July, at JCDL 2013,
see
http://www.ctrnet.net/sites/default/files/JCDL2013WorkshopWebArchiving20130603.pdf
 and
report in SIGIR Forum http://sigir.org/files/forum/2013D/p128.pdf
- Web Archive Globalization Workshop, WAG 2011 – see
http://cs.harding.edu/wag2011/ , with 4 organizers plus 5 presenters and
about 20 participants, held in Ottawa after JCDL 2011 (June 16-17)
- Ongoing work by attendees in this area, growth in collaborative activity
involving the Internet Archive, and specific community building successes
like the Web Archive Cooperative – see http://infolab.stanford.edu/wac/
- Annual meetings of the International Internet Preservation Consortium
(IIPC), partner meetings of the Internet Archive (Archive-It), and ten
workshops held with ECDL/TPDL: International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW),
2001-2010

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Kimberli Weeks
[log in to unmask]
(540) 231-2674
Technical Director, Digital Library Development,
Research & Informatics
University Libraries, Virginia Tech
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu