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
8.00-9.00	Registration (ITU Montbrillant Building)
9.00-9.15	Welcome
9.15-9.45	*Keynote:* *Redefining the news: time for innovation and transformation*	Virginie Fortun
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
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
15.10-15.20	Presentation: 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	Dinner Restaurant "Vieux Bois, Geneva