Collecting, Preserving, and Transforming the News – for Research and the Public

2017 IFLA International News Media Conference

Reykjavík, Iceland, 27-28 April

Outline

From printed newspapers to born-digital news, libraries and other cultural heritage institutions have a central role in ensuring future access to news content. This conference will examine issues and challenges in collecting and preserving the news and making it available to users. For example, do access and preservation have different prerequisites? In addition, the conference will explore how news media is used and transformed by researchers and the public. Can we recognize variable user needs? Do we offer the most suitable APIs?

The main theme of the conference

Collecting, Preserving, and Transforming the News for Research and the Public

has the following and related topics, including, but not limited to:

Users experiences with digital newspaper collections and their usability expectations
Case studies of patron services for digitized and born-digital news (e.g., management systems, reading devices, printout services, etc.)
How digitized news collections are being used in the digital humanities, by researchers, and by the public
The importance and possibilities of citizen science
Long-term sustainability planning for news collections and the role of institutional commitment in preservation and sustainability planning
How institutions make digital newspaper collections freely accessible
Rules, regulations, or legislation for mandatory deposit of news content, paper or otherwise
Legal deposit libraries offering access to in-copyright digitized newspapers
National Libraries co-operating with newspaper publishing houses in digitization, access, etc.
Data research that benefits preservation practice and planning
Changing collection building in a social media and online world
New methods for media monitoring
Harvesting and preservation of web-only news content
Issues around suppression of digitized/digital news content and take-down orders

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

The conference language will be English.

Important dates:

27 January 2017 Proposal abstracts due
3 February 2017 Acceptance notices sent to authors
10 February 2017 Start of registration
10 April 2017 Completed papers and presentations submitted
27-28 April 2017 Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

Draft Conference Program

Thursday, 27 April

8:30 Registration
9:00 Welcome
9:10 Keynote presenter from Iceland: Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson"Preservation without a purpose? Icelandic news photography and the public sphere"
9:30 Keynote presenter from Iceland: Sigríður Júlía Sighvatsdóttir"Preservation of archives in a privately owned TV station – a challenge or just smooth sailing?"
10:00 Kristinn Sigurðsson"Capturing online news media in Iceland"
10:20 Sara Morris & Jenny Presnell"The Historical Newspaper Crisis: Discoverability, Access, Preservation, and the Future of the News Record"
10:40 Sponsor 1: Zeutschel
10:50 Morning Break
11:10 David Oldenkamp"Teaching Emirati History Through British Newspapers: Historical Newspaper Collections at a United Arab Emirates Federal University"
11:30 Juergen Warmbrunn"Digitizing the past – learning for the future? New strategies to make the Newspaper Clippings Collection of the Herder Institute available in an electronic format"
11:50 Ralph Marschall"Improving the user experience of a digital content viewer through advanced analytics"
12:10 Ana Krahmer"Tracking User Experience of Digital Newspapers on The Portal to Texas History"
12:30 Sponsor 2: Eastview Information Services
12:40 Lunch
13:40 Deborah Thomas & Leah Weinryb Grohsgal"Opening the Doors Wide: The US National Digital Newspaper Program, Open Data and the NEH Chronicling America Data Challenge"
14:00 Deborah Cheney"The Academic News Librarian— Patron Services to Support Text-Mining"
14:20 Mary Feeney"What Can Text Mining Reveal about the Use of Newspapers in Research?"
14:40 Sarah Lynn Fisher"Rediscovering Music Printed in American Newspapers: A Case Study for Mining Non-Textual Content from Digital Newspapers"
15:00 Afternoon Break
15:20 Evan Sandhaus"The Future of the Past: Digitizing, Modernizing and Preserving The New York Times Archive"
15:40 Henrik Bødker"Investigating Journalistic Time over Time"
16:00 Peter Broadwell"Conspiracy Stories: Building Archives to Facilitate Narrative Analyses of Online Fake News"
16:20 Sponsor 3: Newsbank
16:30 Tour of The National Library of Iceland
18:00 Conference Standing Dinner

Friday, 28 April

9:00 Keynote-Mikko Tolonen, The University of Helsinki/The National Library of Finland"Patterns of Public Discourse in Finland (1640-1910): Research Ecosystem Combining Metadata from Library Catalogues and the Finnish Historical Newspaper Library"
9:40 Örn Hrafnkelsson"Timarit.is – Historical and modern digital library of Icelandic newspapers, journal and magazines"
10:00 Helga Lára Þorsteinsdóttir"Preservation, access and dissemination of historical news in RÚV (The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service)"
10:20 Kyle Rimkus & William Schlaack"United States Newspaper Digitization in an Age of Uncertainty"
10:40 Sue Kellerman"Fitting a square peg into a round hole: Migrating legacy news content to Open ONI"
11:00 Morning Break
11:20 Sponsor 4: Ninestars
11:30 Tim Russell"A Happy Medium: A Commercial Publisher’s Role in the Acquisition and Preservation of Historic, Traditional and New News Media"
11:50 Barbara Ilie & Todd Bowser"Three Approaches to Newspaper Digitization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Library"
12:10 Art Rhyno"Historical Newspaper Digitization on a Shoestring"
12:30 Sponsor 5: Digital Divide Data
12:40 Lunch
13:40 Sheila Rabun"Introduction to the International Image Interoperability Framework"
14:00 David Wilcox"A Linked Data Approach to Digital Newspapers with Fedora and PCDM"
14:20 Michael Luetgen"The Kitodo Refactoring Update: Challenges of a distributed development in an open source community"
14:40 Afternoon Break
15:00 David Wilcox"Fedora workshop"

Welcome to Reykjavík

All international flights to Iceland land at Keflavik Airport, approximately a 50 minute drive from Reykjavik.

Getting from/to the airport

Taking a taxi from the airport to downtown Reykjavík costs around 120 EUR.

A bus is available for around 20 EUR/person. The bus terminates at the BSÍ Bus Terminal which is about 10-15 minutes walking distance from the conference venue. For around 25 EUR/person you can take the bus all the way to most hotels. Tickets can be purchased in advance on the website, www.re.is/flybus.

Accommodation

The conference venue is the National and University Library (https://landsbokasafn.is/index.php/english)

There are numerous hotels within 15 minutes walking of this venue. Below we list several of them, but the list is far from exhaustive.

Radisson Blu Saga Hotel
Hagatorg, Reykjavík
www.hotelsaga.is

Hotel Reykjavik Centrum
Aðalstræti 16, Reykjavík
www.hotelcentrum.is

Kvosin Downtown Hotel
Kirkjutorg 4, Reykjavík
www.kvosinhotel.is

Hotel Holt
Bergstaðastræti 37, Reykjavik
www.holt.is

City Center Hotel
Austurstræti 6, Reykjavík
www.citycenterhotel.is

Centerhotel Plaza
Aðalstræti, Reykjavík
www.centerhotels.com

Radisson Blu 1919 Hotel
Pósthússtræti 2, Reykjavík
www.radissonblu.com

101 Hotel
Hverfisgata 10, Reykjavík
101hotel.is

Centerhotel Thingholt
Þingholtsstræti 3, Reykjavík
www.centerhotels.com

Centerhotel Skjaldbreid
Laugavegur 16, 101 Reykjavík
www.centerhotels.com

Notably absent are Reykjavík's many smaller guesthouses and Airbnb options for the budget conscious attendee. Those can be found, for example, on www.booking.com.

More about Reykjavik can be found at www.visitreykjavik.is