Central European web archiving overview 2021

Abstract

The conference and workshop titled “404 Not Found – Who preserves the Internet?” was held at the Na­tional Széchényi Library on 23–24 November, 2021. For the first day of the conference and workshop we invited web archiving experts from public memory institutions in the surrounding countries, which laid down the foundation of a future collaboration. Staff from the Czech, Croatian, Austrian, Slovak and Slo­venian web archives presented their collections, long-term workflows, activities and the technology tools available to them, while the Polish State Ar­chives presented its plans for web archiving. This was followed by a one-hour roundtable discussion on possible areas for future cooperation. In this study, we briefly introduce the web archiving activi­ties in each country based on the presentations and illustrate the ways of cooperation outlined by the par­ticipants as a result of the interchange of ideas.