2024-05-07 Statusmeeting

The main piece of news in April on the BnF site was the organization of the IIPC WAC2024 conference at the end of the month. The event was the opportunity to address, through about fifty presentations, various subjects around digital preservation, tools and workflows, search and access or even artificial intelligence and machine learning.
The conference was opened with a panel devoted to the archiving of Skyblogs by BnF and INA and the closing keynote about artificial intelligence was given by Benoît Sagot, holder of the annual chair on Informatics and Digital Sciences at the Collège de France.
The event was a great success and helped to strengthen the links between the members of the consortium.

Our annual selective harvest is still in progress and should last until the end of May. We decided to generate a special queue management for the blogs (over-blog, canalblog) because we usually encounter blacklisting problems.

The Olympic and Paralympic Games will take place in Paris this year, so we plan to launch the harvest in June. It will last until mid-September. First, the frequency will be monthly before becoming bimonthly with weekly crawls.

To finish, we have also started the first preparations for our 2024 broad crawl and we requested the different lists to the registrars.