The seminar takes place on January 28th, 2015 in the main conference hall of National Library of Estonia.
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.
The seminar has three major goals:
- 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);
- to gather people interested in web archiving and encouraging to join Web Archiving Working Group;
- to introduce the web archiving activity, it’s possibilities and problems to the general public in Estonia.
The seminar is aimed to
- Web archiving specialists from other countries (Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark etc);
- Estonian researchers;
- members of the Web Archiving Working Group;
- students (informatics, information science, computer science, etc);
- people interested in web archiving (from libraries, museums, archives, universities, local government authorities);
- general Estonian public (through Radio, TV and press: some coverage and/or interviews).
The program consists three major topics: legislative issues, archiving and access.
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.