IFLA 2014 Pre-Conference, ITU, August 13-14, 2014
Digital Transformation and the Changing Role of News Media in the 21st Century
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
8.00-9.00
Registration (Montbrillant building)
9.00-9.15
9.15-9.45
Welcome
Keynote: Redefining the news: time for innovation and
transformation
9.45-11.00
Missing links: The digital news preservation
Frederick Zarndt, Dorothy
Carner, Edward McCain
A New Template for the Preservation of Electronic News
Bernard F. Reilly
Corpus Protocols: digital transformations of commercial newspaper
collections for text and data mining to support academic research
Neil Smyth,
Stella Wisdom
Presentation: Contentra Technologies
Coffee break
Collaboration is Key. The importance of collaboration and
partnership in digitization projects
Yves Maurer,
Claus Gravenhorst
11.00-11.10
11.10-11.40
11.40-12.50
12.50-13.00
13.00-14.00
14.00-15.10
Transforming and opening up Swiss newspapers to the world:
successful partnerships for rights management and funding
digitization at the Swiss National Library
Florian Steffen
Improving the quality of a bilingual historical news collection using
statistical machine learning methods
Timo Honkela, Kimmo
Kettunen, Krister Linden,
Pekka Kauppinen, Tuula
Pääkkönen, Jukka Kervinen
Presentation: ImageWare Components
Lunch break
Next steps in newspaper digitization: making use of digitized texts
at NLL
News Alike – Text analytics to link related NewspaperSG articles
Collecting bits and pieces – the development of methods for
handling e-legal deposit of on-line news material at the National
Library of Sweden
15.10-15.20
15.20-15.50
15:50-16:00
16:00-17.10
Virginie Fortun
Presentation: CCS - Content Conversion Specialists
Coffee break
Presentation: HTC Global Services
Cultural heritage reconstructed – Compact Memory and the
Frankfurt Digital Judaica Collection
Arturs Zogla
Siang Hock Kia,
Chee Kiam Lim,
Chinnasamy Balakumar,
Cally Law, Peter Pak
Pär Nilsson
Rachel Heuberger
Learning from the past and looking to the future: the necessity of
re-evaluating digitization practices and procedures
Brie Grey-Noble
What, No Backups? Preserving Hardcopies in the Digital Age
Randy Silverman
17:10-18:30
Visit ICT DISCOVERY : a journey through our connected world
19:00
Dinner – Restaurant “Vieux Bois”, Geneva
IFLA 2014 Pre-Conference, ITU, August 13-14, 2014
Digital Transformation and the Changing Role of News Media in the 21st Century
Thursday, August 14, 2014
8.00-9.15
Registration (Montbrillant building)
9.15-10.10
Newspapers as Research Source: Information Needs and
Information Seeking of Humanities Scholars
Darko Lacović, Sanjica
Faletar Tanackovic,
Maja Krtalic
Newsgames – an underestimated emerging genre
Anna Wiehl
Presentation: Olive Software
Coffee break
Preserving the Spirit of the Epoch: Digital Conversion of Nordic
Music Magazines
Amalie Ørum Hansen,
Sergey Borovoy
10.10-10.20
10.20-10.50
10.50-12.20
12.20-12.30
12.30-13.30
13.30-14.50
14.50-15.00
15.00-15.30
15.30-16.10
PDF Converter Production of Historical Newspaper Digitization: the
picture experience of China’s Da Cheng Lao Jiu Database
Xiaowen Ding
Automatic analysis of international newspapers, periodicals and
press dossiers - A case study from Germany
Juergen Warmbrunn,
Rolf Rasche
Implementing the Catholic Newspapers Program: Collaborative
Digitization and Discovery within a Non-profit, Distributed, Online
Organization
Patricia Lawton,
Alexandra Budz
Presentation: PressReader
Lunch break
Making Historic Newspapers Available Online: Why, Where and
How
Large scale refinement of digital historical newspapers with named
entities recognition
Clemens Neudecker,
Willem Jan Faber, Lotte
Wilms, Theo van Veen
Structural metadata – a Key for Indexing Digitized Newspapers
Günter Mühlberger
Historical newspapers content as a base for scientific research –
Europeana Newspapers Project
Nataša Dakić,
Aleksandra Trtovac
Presentation: DDD - Digital Divide Data
Coffee break
Start spreading the digitized news. A journey in social media usage
for outreach in a cooperative digitization project
Newspapers in the Digital Age: A Case Study in How Patrons Read
the News
16.10-16.50
16.50-17.00
18:00
Hans-Jörg Lieder
Panel discussion
Wrap-up
Reception of the City of Geneva, “Palais Eynard”
Erenst Anip
Alyssa Pacy