Dear AoIR-ists,

Future researches about today's web and internet content in general will be done on then available archives of this new media.

What will these archives contain, how material will have been selected, collected, structured, documented so that future researchers can find what they need, is an open issue given the many changes that internet introduces in traditional preservation practices.

An important effort as started involving key players (National Libraries, Internet Archive etc. see: netpreserve.org) to agree on choices to be made on this important issue.

Part of this effort consists in getting inputs from the researcher's community. An advisory group has been set up to discuss this issue and will have its first meeting soon.

To present and discuss this issue, a roundtable is proposed by this group at the AOIR conference and we really eagerly expect to start the debate on this with your participation.

The roundtable is scheduled quite early Monday morning (8:30), at Pevensey Seminar Room 1A3.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Julien Masanès

julien.masanes@netpreserve.org

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