Saras proposal for IIPC GA 2012 NAS agenda

NetarchiveSuite workshop, IIPC GA, Washington DC, May 3 2012
Time: 9:00 ? 12:30 pm

Main topic:
-       Discuss curatorial and technical aspects of the integration and daily use of NetarchiveSuite in an automated web harvesting workflow.
-       Discuss expectations of current and potential users.
-       Focus will be set on crawl preparation: scheduling, packaging, configuring, data structuring.

Audience:
-       Digital curators and developers intending to use NetarchiveSuite in their production environment.
-       Digital curators interested in organizing and automating web harvesting processes in their institution.

Programme:

  1. Brief presentation of NetarchiveSuite and its assets (15 min)
  2. Presentation of NetarchiveSuite concepts and data model (15 min)
  3. Examples of data and workflow organisations by Netarkivet, BnF and ONB (45 min)
  4. Open discussions (2h)

Context:
NetarchiveSuite is a complete web archiving open source software package. It gives the ability to prepare, schedule, run and monitor harvests of websites. It also enables to perform quality assurance and preserve harvested content. See more information on: http://netarchive.dk/suite/ and https://kb-dk.atlassian.net/browse/NAS.

NetarchiveSuite is currently developed for production purposes and maintained by the NetarchiveSuite community, which includes the following institutions: Netarkivet (State and University Library in Aarhus and The Royal Library in Copenhagen), Denmark, the National Library