The International Internet Preservation Consortium is an international organization of libraries and other organizations established to coordinate efforts to preserve internet content for the future.[2] It was founded in July 2003 by 12 participating institutions,[1] and had grown to 35 members by January 2010.[3] As of January 2022, there are 52 members.
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International Internet Preservation Consortium |
| Abbreviation | IIPC |
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| Formation | July 2003; 21 years ago (2003-07) |
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| Purpose | Acquire, preserve and make accessible knowledge and information from the Internet for future generations everywhere, promoting global exchange and international relations.[1] |
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| Website | http://netpreserve.org/ |
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Membership is open to archives, museums, libraries (including national libraries), and cultural heritage institutions.[1][4]
National libraries
Participating national libraries and archives include:[5]
Participating organisations
Other participating organizations include:[5]
Past members
WebCite used to be, but is no longer, a member of the IIPC.[6] In a 2012 message, its founder Gunther Eysenbach commented that "WebCite has no funding, and IIPC charges 4000 Euro/yr in membership fees."[7]
The IIPC sponsors and collaborates on a number of different projects with its member organizations.
Current projects
- Support for transitioning to pywb (Python Wayback).[8]
- Collaborative Collections: IIPC members are collaborating to build public web archive collections based on transnational themes or events of mutual interest. Topics of existing collections include: European Refugee Crisis, Intergovernmental Organizations, Olympics, World War I Commemoration, Climate Change, Artificial Intelligence, and Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).[9]
- Memento: aggregate metadata of the IIPC archives and provide access to Memento.[10]
IIPC also maintains an electronic mailing list open to anyone interested in issues associated with web harvesting, archiving, and quality maintenance issues.[11]
Past projects
- Developing Bloom Filters for Web Archives’ Holdings.[12]
- Improving the Dark and Stormy Archives Framework by Summarizing the Collections of the National Library of Australia[13]
- LinkGate: Core Functionality and Future Use Cases.[14]
- Asking questions with web archives – introductory notebooks for historians: The project output is a set of 16 Jupyter notebooks that demonstrate how specific historical research questions can be explored by analysing data from web archives.[15][16][17]
- IIPC sponsored a project on "cross-archival search strategies" which included the creation of an archive focused on the 2010 Winter Olympics.[18]
- Starting in 2006, the National Library of New Zealand and the British Library developed the Web Curator Tool, an open-source workflow management system for selective web archiving. Since 2017 the Royal Library of the Netherlands has collaboratively developed the tool with the National Library of New Zealand. Version 3.2.1[19] was released in August 2024, and is available at GitHub.[20] The Web Curator Tool is built upon Java and utilizes Internet Archive’s technology, the Heritrix web archiving crawler, and replay tools such as OpenWayback[21] and Pywb.[22]
- IIPC Web Archiving Doctoral Support Award: grant to provide three years of funding for a student to earn a PhD in Interdisciplinary Information Science at The University of North Texas College of Information.[23]
- IIPC Member Staff Exchange: onsite training by experts for participating IIPC members to use Heritrix 3 web crawler.[24]
- Working group on Statistics and Quality Indicators for Web Archiving: development of guidelines on the management and evaluation of Web archiving activities and products.[25]
Hiiragi, Wasuke; Shigeo Sugimoto; Tetsuo Sakaguchi. "Web archiving in the world - International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) and their activities". The Journal of Information Science and Technology Association. 58 (8). Japan.
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