[AISWorld] 2015 IFLA International News Media Conference: “Transformation of the online news media: implications for preservation and access”

[Frederick Zarndt]

*Call for Papers*

*2015 IFLA International News Media Conference**: “Transformation of the 
online news media: implications for preservation and access”***

*Dates*
14 April 2015 Center for Research Libraries /Newspapers digitization summit/
15-16 April 2015 /Transformation of the online news media/ conference

*Location*
The National Library of Sweden, Stockholm Sweden

Conference website http://goo.gl/3c4iWi

*Organizers*

Center for Research Libraries (http://www.crl.edu/)
IFLA News Media (Newspapers) Section (http://www.ifla.org/news-media)
IFLA Audiovisual and Multimedia Section(http://www.ifla.org/avms)

*Theme & sub-themes*

News media material published online is an important first draft of 
history as the printed newspaper and broadcast news has been and still 
is. The digital transformation of news multiplies the usage and current 
online news media constantly develop new channels and modes of 
communication, redefine the roles of all stakeholders and transform the 
news in an infinite process.

The IFLA 2015 International News Media Conference has as its focus the 
transformation aspects of born digital news media and the implications 
for long term archiving and access.

The main theme of the conference is/Transformation of the online news 
media: implications for preservation and access/ with the 
following possible sub-themes**– and papers chosen for presentation 
should address, but are not limited to:

·Reporting the news in the digital and social media age: from big 
corporations to citizen journalism

·Trends in the news media market

·The advertising industry and its influence on online news media

·Latest initiatives and technologies in online news media preservation 
and access

·Challenges in archiving, preserving and using online audiovisual material

·Text mining born digital news content

·Issues of e-legal deposit: online news media

·Web harvesting of online news media

·Issues on long term access to and preservation of news databases

·Services built on born digital newspaper collections

·Research being done on the basis of born digital news media collections

·Users’ experiences with born digital news media collections - usability 
expectations

·Integrating born digital news media and digitized newspaper and 
audiovisual news collections

Other proposals relevant to the main conference theme will also be 
considered.

The day before the conference, April 14, the Center for Research 
Libraries, Chicago will hold a digitization summit in conjunction with 
the IFLA News Media (Newspapers) and Audio Visual Sections. The theme of 
the workshop is to create consensus on priorities for future 
digitization and it is intended for major actors in the newspaper 
digitization community.

*Submission Guidelines*

·Proposal abstracts should be submitted in English as an Microsoft 
Office Word file

·Proposal abstracts for the IFLA pre-conference must be submitted by *20 
February 2015*, must be in English and should clearly include:

oTitle of proposed presentation

oAbstract of proposed paper (no more than 300 words)

oName(s) of presenter(s) plus position and/or title

oEmployer / affiliated institution

oContact information including e-mail address, telephone number

oShort biographical statement of presenter(s)

*Proposal abstracts should be submitted to program committee *(yes to 
all 4!):

*Pär Nilsson *
Email: par.nilsson at kb.se <mailto:par.nilsson at kb.se>__

*Bernard F. Reilly *
Email: reilly at crl.edu <mailto:reilly at crl.edu>__

*Mona Løkås *
Email: mona.lokas at nb.no <mailto:mona.lokas at nb.no>

*Mikael Johansson *
Email: mikael.johansson at kb.se <mailto:mikael.johansson at kb.se>

Selected presenters will be notified by *27 February 2015.*

*Accepted papers*

·Complete accepted papers should be c. 3000-6000 words in length, be an 
original submission not published elsewhere

·Complete accepted papers and accompanying presentation slides must be 
submitted by April 3 2015

·Final papers should be written in English

·20-25 minutes will be allowed for the delivery of the paper

·The papers will be made available on the Conference website and the 
Sections’ webpages

·Author(s) must agree to make their paper available under the terms of 
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License: 
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

*To discuss any matter relating to this Call for Papers, please contact:*

Pär Nilsson, Bernard F. Reilly, Mona Løkås or Mikael Johansson.

*Important dates*

*20 February 2015*

	

Proposal abstracts due

*27 February 2015*

	

Acceptance notices sent to authors

*6 February 2015*

	

Start of registration

*3 April 2015*

	

Completed papers and presentation submitted

*Submissions*

/All proposal abstracts must be in before *20 February 2015*./

*Please note*

The Programme Committee regrets that it has no funding to assist 
prospective authors and the submission of an abstract must be on the 
understanding that the costs of attending the conference including 
registration, travel, accommodation and other expenses, are the 
responsibility of the presenters of the accepted papers, or their 
institutions. No financial support can be provided by IFLA, but a 
special invitation can be issued to authors.

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