Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) 2016: Highlights and Introduction to this Special Issue

This workshop, reported in the following 12 papers, explored the integration of Web archiving and digital libraries, so the complete life cycle involved was introduced: creation/authoring, uploading/publishing in the Web (2.0), (focused) crawling, indexing, exploration (searching, browsing), archiving (of events), etc. It included particular coverage of current topics of interest, e.g., big data, mobile web archiving, and systems (e.g., Memento, SiteStory, Hadoop processing).