Call for proposals for the 2026 Web Archiving Conference is now open (until the 15th of October)

The call for proposals for the 2026 Web Archiving Conference (WAC) is now open. The conference, co-organised by the IIPC and KBR, the Royal Library of Belgium, will be held in Brussels on April 21-22, 2026. Pre-conference workshops and the concluding colloquium of the BelgicaWeb research project will be held on April 20.

We invite proposals that explore sustainability in all aspects of web archiving – from tools and workflows to ethics and environmental impact.

As the web archiving community grows, we face the challenge of ensuring our work is sustainable: technically, socially, legally, and environmentally. This includes maintaining open-source tools, designing user-friendly systems, reducing energy use, supporting knowledge transfer, ensuring equitable access, and building long-term institutional support.

We welcome contributions that address:

• Tools & Infrastructure – Sustainable tool development, automation, training, and efficient harvesting.
• Collection Development – Ethical curation, inclusive practices, and preserving digital discourse.
• Legal & Ethical Issues – Data protection, privacy, AI regulation, and human rights.
• Access & Research Use – Reproducibility, user experience, enrichment, and academic engagement.
• Policies & Standards – Long-term preservation strategies, trust, and provenance.
• Environmental Impact – Measuring and reducing the carbon footprint of web archiving.

The conference website provides more details about the suggested topics and submission guidelines. The deadline for submitting proposals is by the end of the day on October 15th (AoE/UTC-12), 2025.

We want to thank our program committee for preparing the CfP and the 2025 attendees for their feedback, which helped shape this year’s topics. Links to presentations and recordings from WAC 2025 in Oslo are available on the 2025 conference programme page.

If you have any questions about the conference or the CfP, email us at events@netpreserve.org.

We look forward to seeing you in Brussels in April!

The WAC 2026 Organizing Committee

https://netpreserve.org/ga2026/