9th International Web Archiving Workshop
Sep. 30 - Oct. 1 2009, Corfu, Greece



Objectives:

The International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW) series, organized since 2001, provides a cross domain overview on active research and practice in all domains concerned with the acquisition, maintenance and preservation of digital objects for long-term access, with a particular focus on web archiving and studies on effective usage of this type of archives.
It is also intended to provide a forum for interaction among librarians, archivists, academic and industrial researchers interested in establishing effective methods and developing improved solutions for data acquisition, ingest, and accessibility maintenance

IWAW 2009 will take place the 30th of September and 1st of October 2009, in conjunction with ECDL in Corfu (Greece).
Being the main event in this domain, the workshop will provide a cross domain overview on active research and practice in all domains concerned with the preservation of the Web.


Important Dates:

- Paper submission July 26th, 2009.
- Notification of acceptance: August 24th, 2009
- Camera-ready copy due: September 10th, 2009
- Workshop: September 30th and 1st of October, 2009

Please post submission using ACM template at https://stdev.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/iwaw.


Topics:

Case studies:

? Web Archiving Projects,
? Web trends study,
? Digital Archeology,
? Web Metrics,
? Web Publishing Models,
? Large scale storage and data quality .

Data acquisition:

? Harvesting Technology,
? Web Application-aware Crawling,
? Focus crawling,
? Deep Web Capture,
? Acquisition of AJAX and Flash based sites,
? Social web
? Virtual world
? Rich Media capture
? Web Spam detection.

Access:

? Archive Temporal Navigation,
? Large Scale Web Indexing,
? Web Temporal Mining,
? Collection Analysis,
? Information Retrieval applied to Web Archives,
? Digital preservation of Web data,
? Interface Models.

Policy and Social Issues:

? Economics of Information,
? Intellectual Property Rights for the Internet,
? Challenges and Caveats of Web Archives,
? Scenarios and Visions,
? Privacy Aspects.


Workshop Officials:

Chair:
- Julien Masan?s (European Archive Foundation, France and Netherlands).
- Andreas Rauber (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
- Marc Spaniol (Max Planck Institute, Germany)

Program Committee:

- Bjarne Andersen (netarkivet.dk, Denmark)
- Martha Anderson (Library of Congress, USA)
- Sara Aubry, TBC, (Biblioth?que nationale de France, France)
- Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University, Japan)
- John Kunze (California Digital Library , USA)
- Arturas Mazeika (Max-Planck-Institut Informatik, Germany)
- Frank McCown (Harding University, USA)
- Mark Middleton (Hanzo Archives , UK)
- Michael Nelson (Old Dominion University, USA)
- Kjetil Norvag (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
- Philippe Rigaux (Universit? Paris Dauphine , France)
- Thomas Risse (L3S Research Center, Germany)
- Steven M. Schneider (SUNY Institute of Technology , USA)
- Masashi Toyoda (Tokyo University, Japan)