The call for nominations for the 2025 Steering Committee elections has closed. We had five vacant seats and received three nominations, so an election process is not required this year. We would like to congratulate and thank the Internet Archive, the Library of Congress, and the National Library of Australia, who will be continuing for […]

What’s next for social media archiving at the National Archives of the Netherlands and the National Archives of Luxembourg? by Susanne van den Eijkel (Advisor Digital Recordkeeping) and Lotte Wijsman (Preservation Researcher), National Archives of the Netherlands and Guilhem Costenoble (Archivist), Michel Cottin (Digital Curator), Maxime Detant (Archivist), and Camille Forget (Digital Curator), National Archives […]

By Friedel Geeraert, Expert in web archiving and Christina Vandendyck, developer on the BelgicaWeb research project at KBR | Royal Library of Belgium This year’s IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference took place in Oslo at the beautiful Nasjonalbiblioteket. For the first time there were two representatives of KBR, the Royal Library of Belgium. […]

by Cui Cui, University of Sheffield/Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford The IIPC Web Archiving Conference (WAC) 2025 was held from April 9-10 at the National Library of Norway (NB) in Oslo. This event saw nearly 200 members of the international web archiving community come together to share their work and connect with colleagues, […]

by Alan Colin-Arce, University of Victoria, recipient of a student bursary by the IIPC for attendance to the 2025 IIPC Web Archiving Conference The IIPC Web Archiving Conference 2025, held at the National Library of Norway in Oslo, was full of thought-provoking presentations on the current state of web archiving. The conference opened with a […]

The nomination process for the IIPC Steering Committee is now open. The Steering Committee (SC) is composed of no more than fifteen Member Institutions. SC Members provide oversight of the Consortium and define and oversee action on its strategy. This year, five seats are up for election. What is at stake? Serving on the Steering Committee […]

Techniques and Tools for Social Media Archiving: Casting the Right Fly or Net by Susanne van den Eijkel (Advisor Digital Recordkeeping) and Lotte Wijsman (Preservation Researcher), National Archives of the Netherlands and Guilhem Costenoble (Archivist), Michel Cottin (Digital Curator), Maxime Detant (Archivist), and Camille Forget (Digital Curator), National Archives of Luxembourg. This blog post is […]

By lead curator Melissa Wertheimer, Senior Digital Collections Specialist for Web Archiving at the Library of Congress and Content Development Group Co-Chair. The Co-Chairs of IIPC’s Content Development Working Group (CDG) invite the public to contribute web-based content to a new event-based collaborative web archive collection: the World War Two 80th Anniversary Commemoration Web Archive. […]

Strategies Beyond Web Harvesting: Net or Fly Fishing? by Susanne van den Eijkel (Advisor Digital Recordkeeping) and Lotte Wijsman (Preservation Researcher), National Archives of the Netherlands and Guilhem Costenoble (Archivist), Michel Cottin (Digital Curator), Maxime Detant (Archivist), and Camille Forget (Digital Curator), National Archives of Luxembourg. This blog post is the first of three about […]

By Helena Byrne, Curator of Web Archives, British Library The 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics held in Paris were record breaking events. Like with previous Games since 2010, the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) Content Development Group organised a collaborative transnational Web archive collection on the Games. The events on and off the field of […]