[AISWorld] Call for Papers: Newspapers Section Open Session at the IFLA WLIC Conference August 2013 Singapore

[Frederick Zarndt]

*News for the future: Dissemination, harvesting, archiving, and retrieving*

Open session at IFLA WLIC 2013, August 17-23, 2013, Singapore

Sponsored by the IFLA Newspapers Section

*Papers wanted!   *Please consider submitting a short proposal to present
during the Newspapers Section <http://www.ifla.org/VII/s39/index.htm> open
session at WLIC 2013 (http://conference.ifla.org/ifla79).  Attendees at
past open sessions have included librarians, archivists, digital curation
specialists, publishers, researchers, historians, genealogists, and
technologists.  This open session gives you a unique opportunity to reach a
world-wide audience of news, library, and technology professionals.

*Session theme:  *The WLIC conference theme “Future Libraries, Infinite
Possibilities” and the Newspapers Section open session theme “News for the
future: Dissemination, harvesting, archiving, and retrieving” highlights
the consequences of digital technology in news creation, production, and
dissemination as well as on the post-dissemination fate of news such as
preservation of digital and hard assets, collection management, storage of
physical and digital content, access and use of digital and physical news
collections, and similar fates.

Subordinate themes include

   - Production of electronic news media
   - New business models for news preservation
   - Collaborative news production and preservation
   - Collecting digital media including e-delivery, web-harvesting, legal
   deposit
   - News metadata capture and enrichment including news industry standards
   such as NITF, NewsML, hNews, etc as well as traditional library standards
   such as METS, MODS, ALTO, PREMIS, MIX, etc
   - Digitisation of historical news and newspapers
   - Presentation of and access to digital news collections including
   crowdsourcing
   - Collaboration of libraries, archives, and museums in the preservation
   of news

Other topics will be considered, too.

*Please note:  *Papers for the conference should be written and presented
in English.  Proposals should be no more than 300 words in length and must
be submitted to Mona Løkås (mona.lokas at nb.no), Mazelan Anuar (
mazelan_anuar at nlb.gov.sg), and Sue Kellerman (lsk3 at psu.edu <lsk3 at su.edu>)
of the Newspapers Section on or before January 31, 2013.  Authors of
accepted proposals will be notified by March 4, 2013. The full paper and
accompanying presentation slides must be completed and submitted to IFLA
before June 2013.  The papers must be original submissions and not
published elsewhere.

At least one author is expected to attend WLIC 2013 to present the paper.

All expenses, including registration for the conference, travel,
accommodation, etc., are the responsibility of the authors.  No financial
support can be provided by IFLA, however, a special invitation letter can
be issued to authors.

Please disseminate and share this information with all colleagues who may
be interested.  Looking forward to see all of you in Singapore!

Important dates

 *31 Jan 2013* Abstracts due

*4 Mar 2013* Acceptance notices sent to authors

*30 Jun 2013* Completed papers and presentation submitted.

*Questions?*  Please contact Mona Løkås (mona.lokas at nb.no)*, *Mazelan Anuar*(
*mazelan_anuar at nlb.gov.sg*),* or Sue Kellerman (lsk3 at psu.edu <lsk3 at su.edu>).
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