Conferences and Workshops

IIPC Open Meeting: Active Solutions for Preserving Internet Content
San Francisco, California

October 7, 2009

In conjunction with iPRES, the IIPC is planning a one
day free event, open to the public, on October 7, 2009, at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. The theme is "Active Solutions for Preserving Internet Content." We're currently seeking abstracts for presentation proposals. See the Active Solutions for Preserving Internet Content announcement for details.

IIPC Event:
Open Session on Web Archiving
Ottawa, Canada

May 5, 2009
8:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Library and Archives Canada (LAC) hosted, in collaboration with the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, an open session on preserving Internet content for future generations.

The session entitled "Web Archiving: What, Why and How" was presented by an expert panel from the Library of Congress (US), Internet Archive, and Netarchive in Denmark. The second half of the morning briefly highlighted web archiving programs from a small number of IIPC member institutions:
British Library, California Digital Library, National Library of the Czech Republic, National Library Board (Singapore), National Library of Norway, Bibliothèque nationale de France, National Diet Library, Japan, and Library and Archives Canada.

Video and presentation slides to come.

IIPC General Assembly Meeting
Ottawa, Canada

May 4-7, 2009

The 2009 IIPC General Assembly meeting was held at the Library and
Archives Canada. Open to all IIPC members, the General Assembly focused on the activities and projects of the working groups and other special projects, and included meetings of the Technical Committee and Steering Committee.

Media in Transition: Stone and Papyrus, Storage and Transmission
Conference Web site
MIT, Cambridge, Mass.

April 24-26, 2009

Institutional Perspectives on Storage
Claude Mussou, Ina (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel)

Mussou presented Ina's approach of collecting, safeguarding and making available the French audiovisual heritage (including related web sites), and discussed IIPC's mission to promote global exchange and international relations for the collection, preservation and availibility of web contents for future generations.