International Internet Preservation Consortium
| Abbreviation | IIPC |
|---|---|
| Formation | July 2003 |
| Purpose | Acquire, preserve and make accessible knowledge and information from the Internet for future generations everywhere, promoting global exchange and international relations. |
| Website | http://netpreserve.org/ |
| Original author(s) | National Library of New Zealand / British Library |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Oakleigh Consulting |
| Initial release | September 2006 |
| Stable release |
1.6.1 / May 9, 2014
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| Development status | Active |
| Platform | Java |
| Type | Selective web harvesting |
| License | Apache License V2.0 |
| Website | webcurator |
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. It was founded in July 2003 by 12 participating institutions, and had grown to 35 members by January 2010. As of March 2014, there are 48 members.
Membership is open to archives, museums, libraries (including national libraries), and cultural heritage institutions.
Participating national libraries and archives include:
Other participating organizations include:
WebCite used to be, but is no longer, a member of the IIPC. In a 2012 message, Eysenbach commented that "WebCite has no funding, and IIPC charges 4000 Euro/yr in membership fees."
The IIPC sponsors and collaborates on a number of different projects with its member organizations.
IIPC also maintains an electronic mailing list open to anyone interested in issues associated with web harvesting, archiving, and quality maintenance issues.
IIPC sponsored a project on "cross-archival search strategies" which included the creation of an archive focused on the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Starting in 2006, the National Library of New Zealand and the British Library developed the Web Curator Tool, an open source workflow management system for selective web archiving. Version 1.6 was released on December 5, 2012, and is available at SourceForge. The Web Curator Tool is built upon Java technologies such as Apache Tomcat, the Spring Framework and Hibernate, and Internet Archives technologies such as the Heritrix web archiving crawler, the NutchWAX web archive full-text search engine and the Wayback Machine.
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