e-Helvetica: events for professionals

The iPRES international conference is one of the most important meetings dedicated to the long-term preservation of digital data. In 2016, over 300 experts from 30 countries met from October 3-6 at Bern Expo. The Swiss National Library was the organizer of iPRES 2016. All presentations and discussions were held in English.

The 2015 workshop was attended by all 30 partner institutions of Web Archive Switzerland. Participants gained an insight into individual activities and were given an opportunity to suggest improvements.

The workshop held in 2012 by Web Archive Switzerland was aimed at contacts in partner institutions that select and submit websites for the Archive. The National Library’s access system for the digital collections was also presented.

The 2009 workshop at the Swiss National Library updated participants on the status of work on Web Archive Switzerland and demonstrated the workflow to interested institutions, from submission through to website archiving.

In 2008 the Swiss National Library held a workshop on collecting and cataloguing websites of patrimonial importance for cantonal libraries and other interested institutions.

Long-term availability of digital publications in Swiss patrimonial libraries: Web Archive Switzerland Conference held on October 30th, 2007 at the Swiss National Library, in Bern

Collecting and archiving electronic theses at the Swiss National Library : e-Diss.ch Information session held on May 30th, 2007 at the Swiss National Library in Bern

Web Archive Switzerland - a common collection of patrimonial online Helvetica of the Swiss cantonal libraries and the Swiss National Library Training Session on Collecting and Listing of online patrimonial Helvetica, held March 8th and 14th 2007 at the Swiss National Library in Bern

February 2006 saw a conference at the National Library on the long-term availability of digital publications. The concept for building a common collection of websites of patrimonial importance was presented.

The conference in November 2004 dealt with cooperation between the National Library and cantonal libraries to build an online collection of digital publications and a proposal for the long-term preservation of diskettes.

The long-term availability of digital publications in Swiss archive libraries was the subject of the conference at the Swiss National Library in November 2003.

In September 2001, a conference on the technological, economic and legal aspects of electronic publishing was held at the National Library in collaboration with the Swiss Association of Booksellers and Publishers (Schweizerischer Buchhändler- und Verlegerverband).