Call for Artifact Badging

We invite authors of accepted papers in all main tracks (i.e., the main research tracks, industry, short papers and Web4Good Special track) of The Web Conference to apply for the "Artifacts Available" badge in the ACM Digital Library and on the conference website.

We would like to encourage sharing, discovery, and reuse of artifacts, such as datasets, ML models, software, and other research outputs associated with conference papers. At this stage, we welcome submissions only from accepted papers. Artifact submissions will undergo a light review and successful submissions will be awarded the “Artifacts Available” badge in the ACM Digital Library.

If you would like to become an artifact badging reviewer at The Web Conference 2026, or nominate someone else, please complete this form.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: submit your artifacts at the same time as the camera-ready version of your paper.
Main Proceedings: February 18, 2026
Companion Proceedings: March 11, 2026

All submission deadlines are end-of-day in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone.

Scope

We welcome submissions of artifacts used or produced by accepted papers in all tracks of the main or companion proceedings of The Web Conference 2026, excluding workshop papers.

Submission Guidelines

You can apply for the “Artifacts Available” badge if you release a new dataset, new code, or a similar artifact associated with your paper. Authors of accepted papers will receive a link to submit their artifacts.

Your artifact DOI must be included in the camera-ready version of your paper. To insert your DOI, please use the following LaTeX commands before the first section (i.e., Introduction) and after the \maketitle of your LaTeX document:

\maketitle
\newcommand\webconfavailabilityurl{https://doi.org/xxxx}
\ifdefempty{\webconfavailabilityurl}{}{
\begingroup\small\noindent\raggedright\textbf{Resource Availability:}\\
% please change the following context to include multiple artifacts if necessary, including data, models, code, etc.
The source code of this paper has been made publicly available at \url{\webconfavailabilityurl}.
\endgroup
}

Additional requirements:

Your paper must include a “Resource availability” statement as indicated above.
You must host the artifact(s) in a publicly available, archival repository for research artifacts.
The artifact must have unique dereferenceable identifiers, such as a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). Most archival research repositories provide DOIs (e.g., Zenodo, Kaggle, Figshare, DataDryad, etc.).
For source code artifacts hosted in GitHub, please follow the approach presented here to obtain a persistent identifier for your repository: GitHub: Referencing and citing content.
Add both the DOI and the source code repository link in the resource availability statement.

Reviewing Process

A conference review committee of volunteers will verify that artifacts are indeed available in a publicly accessible archival repository at the link that you specify. The review is a light verification (not a full reproducibility assessment) focused on confirmatory checks that the artifact exists, is downloadable, and is accompanied by minimal instructions so others can access it.

If you would like to become an artifact badging reviewer at The Web Conference 2026 or nominate someone else, please complete this form.

Artifact Badging Co-Chairs

Catia Pesquita (LASIGE, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa)
Daniel Garijo (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)

Contact: artifacts-www2026@acm.org