Acquire, preserve and make accessible knowledge and information from the Internet for future generations everywhere, promoting global exchange and international relations.[1]
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 January 2022, there are 52 members.
Membership is open to archives, museums, libraries (including national libraries), and cultural heritage institutions.[1][4]
WebCite used to be, but is no longer, a member of the IIPC.[8] In a 2012 message, its founder Gunther Eysenbach commented that "WebCite has no funding, and IIPC charges 4000 Euro/yr in membership fees."[9]
Projects
The IIPC sponsors and collaborates on a number of different projects with its member organizations.
Current projects
Support for transitioning to pywb (Python Wayback).[10]
Collaborative Collections: IIPC members are collaborating to build public web archive collections based on transnational themes or events of mutual interest. Topics of existing collections include: European Refugee Crisis, Intergovernmental Organizations, Olympics, World War I Commemoration, Climate Change, Artificial Intelligence, and Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).[11]
Memento: aggregate metadata of the IIPC archives and provide access to Memento.[12]
LinkGate: Core Functionality and Future Use Cases.[16]
Asking questions with web archives – introductory notebooks for historians: The project output is a set of 16 Jupyter notebooks that demonstrate how specific historical research questions can be explored by analysing data from web archives.[17][18][19]
IIPC sponsored a project on "cross-archival search strategies" which included the creation of an archive focused on the 2010 Winter Olympics.[20]
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.[24]
IIPC Member Staff Exchange: onsite training by experts for participating IIPC members to use Heritrix 3 web crawler.[25]
Working group on Statistics and Quality Indicators for Web Archiving: development of guidelines on the management and evaluation of Web archiving activities and products.[26]
References
^ abc"Mission & Goals | IIPC". www.netpreserve.org. International Internet Preservation Consortium. Archived from the original on 2017-06-06. Retrieved 2015-09-12.
^Hiiragi, Wasuke; Shigeo Sugimoto; Tetsuo Sakaguchi. "Web archiving in the world - International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) and their activities". The Journal of Information Science and Technology Association. Japan. 58 (8).
