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2017-06-29: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2017 Trip Report

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The 2017 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) took place at the University of Toronto , Canada. From June 19-23, we (WS-DL) attended workshops, tutorials, panels, and a doctoral consortium. The theme of this year's conference was #TOscale, #TOanalyze, and #TOdiscover. The conference provided researchers from disciplines such as Digital Library research and information science, with the opportunity to communicate the findings of their respective research areas. Day 1 (June 19) The first day (pre-conference) of the conference kicked off with a Doctoral Consortium and a Tutorial - Introduction to Digital Libraries. These events took place in parallel with a Workshop - 6th International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications (WOSP 2017). The final event of the day was a tutorial titled, "Scholarly Data Mining: Making Sense of the Scientific Literature" Day 2 (June 20) . #JCDL2017 kicks off with opening remarks by @ianmilligan1 pic.twitter.com/

2017-06-26: IIPC Web Archiving Conference (WAC) Trip Report

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Mat Kelly reports on the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) Web Archiving Conference (WAC) 2017 in London, England.                             In the latter part of Web Archiving Week ( #waweek2017 ) from Wednesday to Friday, Sawood and I attended the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) Web Archiving Conference (WAC) 2017 , held jointly with the RESAW Conference at the Senate House and British Library Knowledge Center in London. Each of the three days had multiple tracks. Reported here are the presentations I attended. Prior to the keynote, Jane Winters ( @jfwinters ) of University of London and Nicholas Taylor ( @nullhandle ) welcomed the crowd with admiration toward the Senate House venue. Leah Lievrouw ( @Leah53 ) from UCLA then began the keynote. In her talk, she walked through the evolution of the Internet as a medium to access information prior to and since the Web. #Keynote @Leah53 the 'pre-browser internet' was about