Sustaining Open-Source Web Archiving Infrastructure: Takeaways from IIPC Conference 2026 | Library Innovation Lab (opens in new tab)

The Perma team recently attended the ’s (IIPC) Web Archiving Conference, held this year at the KBR—Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels. A recurring theme was that web archiving depends on collective stewardship of the open-source tools, institutions, and people that make preservation possible. At a moment when the web is becoming more difficult to archive, the conference offered an assessment of current challenges and a reminder that the sustainability of the field relies heavily on collabor...