IWAW'06

Call for papers for the
6th International Web Archiving Workshop

To be held in conjunction with the

10th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries

September 21-22 2006, Alicante, Spain

When

The workshop will take place Thursday 21st of September from 9h00 to 17h30 and Friday 22nd, from 9h00 to 16h00.
See the conference site for venue details.

Objectives

Following the great success of the first five International Workshops on Web Archiving, we are happy to invite you to the sixth Workshop in this series (see previous editions of the workshop 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005).

The workshop will provide 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.

Topics

We cordially invite researchers and practitioners to submit papers relevant to any aspect of Web Archives. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Case studies:

Web Archiving Projects,
Digital Archeology,
Cyberculture Studies,
Web Metrics,
Web Publishing Models.

Data acquisition:

Harvesting Technology, Focused Crawling,
Deep Web Capture,
Site Architecture Migration,
Authenticity Control of Captured Documents.
Acquisition of Dynamic Objects,
Submission Systems,
Data Ingest,
Automated Metadata Capture.

Storage Models and Architecture:

Hierarchical Storage Models,
Redundant Storage,
Distributed Storage,
Storage Media Migration,
Cost Models,
Media Life-Time Analysis.

Digital Preservation:

Conversion/Migration Strategies,
Emulation Approaches,
Data Abstraction Technologies,
Self-Aware Objects,
Testbeds, File Format Repositories,
Document Functionality and Behaviour.

Access:

Access Provision,
Navigation,
Web Indexing
Collection Analysis,
Information Retrieval,
Interface Models.

Policy and Social Issues:

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

Workshop Officials

Organizing Committee

Julien Masanès (European Archive / e-mail : julien AT iwaw.net)
Andreas Rauber (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

Program Committee

Andreas Aschenbrenner (SUB Goettingen, Germany)
Niels Christensen (Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Denmark)
Gordon Mohr (Internet Archive, USA)
John Kunze (California Digital Library, USA)
Catherine Lupovici (Bibliothèque nationale de France, France)
Dieter Merkl (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
Mark Middleton (Hanzo Archives, UK)
Kjetil Nørvåg (University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Philippe Rigaux (Orsay Paris-Sud University, France)
Steven M. Schneider (SUNY Institute of Technology, USA)
Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institut für Informatik, Germany)

Important Dates

Paper submission	JUNE 20th, 2006
Notification of acceptance	July 5th, 2006
Camera-ready copy due	July 24th, 2006
Workshop	September 21-22, 2006

Submission guidelines

Authors are invited to submit original papers (no more than 10000 words). They should be submitted here following the Springer guidelines for TeX or for Microsoft Word. If you have any problem please contact the organizers.