Web Archiving: Preserving the History of Data-Driven Society

The international seminar takes place on January 28th, 2015 in the main conference hall of National Library of Estonia (Tõnismägi 2, Tallinn).

 Working language will be English and there will be expected about 80-100 attendees, mostly from Estonian memory institutions and universities but also web archiving specialists from other countries.

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1. to promote and discuss new possibilities provided by Estonian Web Archive that arise with the archiving of national domain and making it accessible (big data for researchers);
2. to gather people interested in web archiving and encouraging to join Web Archiving Working Group;
3. to introduce the web archiving activity, it’s possibilities and problems to the general public in Estonia.

The seminar is aimed to

1. Web archiving specialists from other countries (Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark etc);
2. Estonian researchers;
3. members of the Web Archiving Working Group;
4. students (informatics, information science, computer science, etc);
5. people interested in web archiving (from libraries, museums, archives, universities, local government authorities);
6. general Estonian public (through Radio, TV and press: some coverage and/or interviews).

The program consists three major topics: legislative issues, archiving and access.

Detailled program: http://www.nlib.

We are shaping the program right now, so if you want to participate as a speaker (20 min talk + 10 min for questions) then let me know during next week. For 4 speakers we can pay one extra night (at our partner hotel) so you can come earlier.ee/DM-6

Participations from NAS community members:

1)The document cycle: from selection to access, new curatorial practices by Annick Le Follic (BnF) and Sabine Schostag (Netarkivet.dk)

2) Probing a Nation’s Web Domain: the Development of the Danish Web 2005-2015, preliminary results of the research project by Ditte Laursen (Netarkivet.dk)

3) From print to digital: legal deposit principles and legislative aspects by Clément Oury (BnF)