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IFLA2014 Programme 13 August

Digital Transformation and the Changing Role of News Media in the 21st Century

 
Programme 13 August 2014 (programme is subject to change)
Venue: International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, Switzerland

Wednesday, August 13, 2014 ​ ​

8.00-9.00Registration ​(ITU Montbrillant Building)
9.00-9.15Welcome ​
9.15-9.45 Keynote: Redefining the news: time for innovation and transformationVirginie Fortun
9.45-11.00 ​ ​ Missing links: The digital news preservationFrederick 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
11.00-11.10 Presentation: Contentra Technologies ​
11.10-11.40 Coffee break
11.40-12.50 ​ ​ Collaboration is Key. The importance of collaboration and partnership in digitization projects Yves Maurer, Claus Gravenhorst
Transforming and opening up Swiss newspapers to the world: successful partnerships for rights management and funding digitization at the Swiss National Library Florian Steffen, Geneviève Clavel
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
12.50-13.00 Presentation: ImageWare Components ​
13.00-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-15.10 ​ ​ Next steps in newspaper digitization: making use of digitized texts at NLL Arturs Zogla
News Alike – Text analytics to link related NewspaperSG articles Siang Hock Kia, Chee Kiam Lim, Chinnasamy Balakumar, Cally Law, Peter Pak
Collecting bits and pieces – the development of methods for handling e-legal deposit of on-line news material at the National Library of Sweden Pär Nilsson
15.10-15.20Presentation: CCS - Content Conversion Specialists ​
15.20-15.50 Coffee break
​15:50-16:00​Presentation: HTC Global Services
16:00-17.10 ​ ​ Cultural heritage reconstructed – Compact Memory and the Frankfurt Digital Judaica Collection 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 DinnerRestaurant "Vieux Bois, Geneva