International Internet Preservation Consortium

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International Internet Preservation Consortium
Abbreviation IIPC
Formation July 2003 (2003-07)
Purpose Acquire, preserve and make accessible knowledge and information from the Internet for future generations everywhere, promoting global exchange and international relations.[1]
Website http://netpreserve.org/

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 March 2014, there are 48 members.

Membership is open to archives, museums, libraries (including national libraries), and cultural heritage institutions.[1][4]

Web Curator Tool
Original author(s) National Library of New Zealand / British Library
Developer(s) Oakleigh Consulting
Initial release September 2006 (2006-09)
Stable release 1.5.1 / December 10, 2010; 13 years ago (2010-12-10)
Development status Active
Platform Java
Type Selective web harvesting
License Apache License V2.0
Website webcurator.sourceforge.net

Members

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, Eysenbach commented that "WebCite has no funding, and IIPC charges 4000 Euro/yr in membership fees."[7]

Projects

The IIPC sponsors and collaborates on a number of different projects with its member organizations.

Current projects

  • Memento: aggregate metadata of the IIPC archives and provide access to Memento.[8]
  • 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.[9]
  • IIPC Member Staff Exchange: onsite training by experts for participating IIPC members to use Heritrix 3 web crawler.[10]
  • Working group on Statistics and Quality Indicators for Web Archiving: development of guidelines on the management and evaluation of Web archiving activities and products.[11]

IIPC also maintains an electronic mailing list open to anyone interested in issues associated with web harvesting, archiving, and quality maintenance issues.[12]

Past projects

IIPC sponsored a project on "cross-archival search strategies" which included the creation of an archive focused on the 2010 Winter Olympics.[13]

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.[14] Version 1.6 was released on December 5, 2012, and is available at SourceForge.[15] The Web Curator Tool is built upon Java technologies such as Apache Tomcat, the Spring Framework and Hibernate, and Internet Archives technologies such as the Heritrix web archiving crawler, the NutchWAX web archive full-text search engine and the Wayback Machine.[16]

References

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