International Internet Preservation Consortium

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 January 2022, there are 52 members.

Membership is open to archives, museums, libraries (including national libraries), and cultural heritage institutions.

National libraries
Participating national libraries and archives include:


 * Austrian National Library
 * Biblioteca Nacional de España
 * Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt)
 * Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
 * Bibliothèque nationale de France
 * British Library
 * German National Library
 * Library and Archives Canada
 * Library of Congress
 * National and University Library in Zagreb
 * National and University Library of Iceland
 * National and University Library of Slovenia
 * National Diet Library (Japan)
 * National Library Board of Singapore
 * National Library of Australia
 * National Library of Catalonia
 * National Library of Chile
 * National Library of China
 * National Library of the Czech Republic
 * National Library of Estonia
 * National Library of Finland
 * National Library of Greece
 * National Library of Ireland
 * National Library of Korea
 * National Library of Latvia
 * National Library of Luxembourg
 * National Library of the Netherlands
 * National Library of New Zealand
 * National Library of Norway
 * National Library of Poland
 * National Library of Scotland
 * National Library of Serbia
 * National Library of Sweden
 * National Széchényi Library
 * Polish State Archives
 * Swiss National Library
 * The National Archives (United Kingdom)
 * The Royal Danish Library
 * Royal Library of Belgium

Participating organisations
Other participating organizations include:


 * Archiefweb.eu
 * Arquivo.pt - Portuguese Web Archive
 * Columbia University Libraries
 * Hanzo
 * Harvard Library
 * Internet Archive
 * Institut national de l'audiovisuel
 * Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library
 * Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
 * Old Dominion University Department of Computer Science
 * Stanford University Libraries
 * University Library, Bratislava
 * University of North Texas Libraries

Past members
WebCite used to be, but is no longer, a member of the IIPC. In a 2012 message, its founder Gunther Eysenbach commented that "WebCite has no funding, and IIPC charges 4000 Euro/yr in membership fees."

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).
 * 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).
 * Memento: aggregate metadata of the IIPC archives and provide access to Memento.

IIPC also maintains an electronic mailing list open to anyone interested in issues associated with web harvesting, archiving, and quality maintenance issues.

Past projects

 * Developing Bloom Filters for Web Archives’ Holdings.
 * Improving the Dark and Stormy Archives Framework by Summarizing the Collections of the National Library of Australia
 * LinkGate: Core Functionality and Future Use Cases.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * IIPC Member Staff Exchange: onsite training by experts for participating IIPC members to use Heritrix 3 web crawler.
 * Working group on Statistics and Quality Indicators for Web Archiving: development of guidelines on the management and evaluation of Web archiving activities and products.