Sent on behalf of colleagues -- submissions are due April 18th. WADL 2015 — Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (http://dlib.vt.edu/WADL2015) (a JCDL 2015 (http://www.jcdl2015.org), Knoxville TN; 6/24-25 Workshop) June 24 Activities (single track) 2:30-3:00 opening, introductions 3-3:30 panel: technical challenges 3:30-4 panel: organization & institutional social perspectives 4-4:30 demonstrations 4:30-5:30 poster session: all attendees are encouraged to bring a poster June 25 Activities (single track) 8-9 registration, continental breakfast 9-9:30 lightening talks (e.g., on posters, demonstrations) 9:30-10:30 selected presentations 10:30-11 break 11-12 selected presentations 12-1 plenary discussion: future directions and collaboration Submissions (please provide contact and supporting info in <= 1 page): EasyChair submission page https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wadl2015 Due April 18; Notification will be by May 8. Categories are: Poster + lightening talk Demonstration + lightening talk 15 min. meeting/conference report related to WADL, including Q&A 20 min. presentation + 10 min. Q&A 30 min. panel with interactive plenary discussion Description: This will explore the integration of web archiving and digital libraries, over the complete life cycle: creation/authoring, uploading/ publishing in the Web, . . . It will cover all topics of interest, including but not limited to: - Archiving (events) - Big data - Classification - Community building - Crawling (focused) - Curation, quality control - Databases / collections - Discovery - Extraction & analysis - Filling gaps - Globalization, languages - Linking archives - Metadata - Mobile devices - Network science - Preservation - Resource description - Social sciences - Standards, protocols - Systems, tools - Tweet connections Objectives: - to build the community of people integrating web archiving & DLs - to help attendees learn about useful methods, systems, and software - to help chart future research and improved practice in this area - to promote synergistic efforts including collaborative projects, proposals - to produce an archival publication that will help advance technology and practice - to spot work for a planned journal special issue, in Springer’s IJDL:http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/799 Workshop Co-chairs: - Chair, Edward A. Fox, Professor and Director Digital Library Research Laboratory, Virginia Tech, [log in to unmask], http://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 Organizing Committee: Jefferson Bailey, Internet Archive, [log in to unmask] Prashant Chandrasekar, Virginia Tech, [log in to unmask] Mohamed Magdy Farig, Virginia Tech, [log in to unmask] Vinay Goel, Internet Archive, [log in to unmask] Martin Klein, UCLA, [log in to unmask] Frank McCown, Harding University, [log in to unmask] Michael Nelson, Old Dominion Univ., [log in to unmask] Andreas Rauber, TU Vienna, [log in to unmask] Matthew Weber, Rutgers, [log in to unmask] Closely related event and results: - Working with Internet Archives for Research (WIRE 2014) NSF workshop, 17-18 June 2014, Cambridge, MA – see http://wp.comminfo.rutgers.edu/nsfia/ - Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL’13), 7/25-26, at JCDL 2013, seehttp://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 -- Andrea L. Ogier Assistant Director, Data Curation Research & Informatics Division University Libraries Virginia Tech [log in to unmask] (540) 231-9255