IFLA Newspapers section has organised 2 conference sessions this summer
PrintIFLA 2014 Pre-Conference satellite meeting, held in Geneva on 13-14th August, focused on the transformation aspects of both, digitized as well as born digital news media. The main theme was: “Digital Transformation and the Changing Role of News Media in the 21st Century”. All aspects of digital preservation were discussed, both from the publishers and the librarians points of views. From research data management issues to partnerships in digitisation projects, keynotes speakers have explored the challenges faced and the lessons learned from all the digitisation steps. Several case studies enabled to confront best practices and procedures, revisited with new technological advances like data and text mining, OCR and named entities recognition. A special focus has been put on e-legal deposit and newsgames as an emerging genre. At last, have been discussed how digitized news media change the approach of reading and exploring the news, for public library patrons as well as researchers in digital humanities.
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The Newspapers Section open session was held in Lyon on the theme “All we need is news – knowledge production and dissemination through news media”. The keynotes speakers highlighted 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. Through the case studies and projects presented by several national libraries, practices of semantic web technologies, web harvesting and e-legal deposit management were developed.