As the web and digital media transform the ways news is sourced, distributed and consumed, research libraries must find new ways to ensure long-term scholarly access to important journalism. CRL's preservation program was built around news in print and microform, and providing access through interlibrary loan. The 2017 eDesiderata Forum will focus on access to news in the new electronic environment. Presentations and conversations will examine the media and publishing landscape, digital news marketplace, innovative research uses of news, and potential ways CRL and research libraries can adapt.
Conversation 1: Inside the Online News Machine (12:00 p.m.) Download [2]
In the past twenty years media organizations developed robust capabilities for managing digital news content. Those capabilities will have a bearing on the future accessibility of today's news for researchers. This conversation with industry insiders will explore how two major media organizations manage and archive born-digital news.
Moderator: Bernard Reilly, President, CRL
Panelists:
Evan Sandhaus, Executive Director of Knowledge and Metadata Management, The New York Times, will speak about how electronic content is organized and delivered at one of the world’s premiere news organizations. New capabilities built in recent years by the Times now enable delivery and presentation of news text across multiple digital distribution platforms.
Philip Spiegel, Senior Director for Content Management Operations, LAC Group, on Managing and Preserving Broadcast News Assets.
Conversation 2: Digital News and its Scholarly Uses (12:35 p.m.) Download [3]
News reporting remains among of the most widely used primary sources for historical and public policy research. Scholarly use continues to evolve, with new approaches to mining and computer-assisted analysis of large aggregations of news, digitized and born-digital.
Moderator: Mary E. Feeney, Librarian for the Social Sciences, Research and Learning Department, The University of Arizona Libraries
Panelists:
James Danowski, Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago (retired), on Mining Electronic News for Political and Social Science Research
Nick Adams, Data Science Fellow, Berkeley Institute for Data Science, on Mining Online News and News Data for Insights on Political Affairs and Public Awareness
Conversation 3: The Library Supply Chain for News (1:10 p.m.) Download [4]
Changes in the way news content is produced, maintained, and distributed challenge the strategies libraries put in place during the last century for preserving news. This conversation will shed light on recent developments in library news acquisition and retention, and their impact on discovery and use.
Moderator: Bernard Reilly, President, CRL
Panelists:
Patrick Reakes, Associate Dean Scholarly Resources & Services at University of Florida, on Acquisition of Print and Microform: Shifts in Library Collection Strategies
Mark Sweeney, Associate Librarian for Library Services, Library of Congress, on Digital Developments in News Preservation at LC
Dorothy Carner, Head of Journalism Libraries, Adjunct Professor, Missouri School of Journalism, on the State of Legal Deposit Abroad
Conversation 1: Site licensing of major online news sources (2:00 p.m.) Download [5]
Alternatives to print-based news collecting and preservation are now emerging. Direct engagement with news producers offer new opportunities for academic libraries to support local research and teaching, while shaping the news marketplace. This discussion will highlight developments in CRL’s efforts to negotiate academic site licenses with major news producers on the model of the New York Times academic site license.
Conversation 2: Direct library investment in news access and preservation (2:20 p.m.) Download [6]
CRL's World Newspaper Archive partnership with Newsbank leveraged the capabilities of a commercial publisher to expand digital access to non-U.S. newspaper collections. This conversation will examine other possible models for library support of news preservation efforts that are similarly initiated and driven by libraries, and the prospects for such support.
Bryan Benilous and Robert Lee, on East View Information Service's prospective Global Press Archive
Summary and Wrap-Up (2:55 p.m.) "Sustaining Access to News: What We Learned from eDesiderata 2017 [7]"
CRL’s annual eDesiderata Forum brings expert knowledge and insight to bear on the challenges of acquisition, licensing and enabling access to major databases, datasets, and data services for scholarly research. The forums explore community interest in commercial and open access data sources, illuminate market practices and economics, and identify priorities for CRL and NERL licensing on behalf of member libraries.
CRL and NERL negotiate favorable terms for member libraries with publishers of hundreds of electronic databases and provide critical reviews of major databases in the eDesiderata [8] platform.
Participation in the eDesiderata Forum is limited to librarians, staff, and faculty at CRL and NERL member institutions. Registrants may join the sessions at any time during the Forum. To encourage real-time participation and discussion, recordings will not be available for later access. Speakers' slides and a summary report will be posted after the event.
In preparing for the 2017 eDesiderata Forum, CRL recommends the following articles and reports that provide some insight into the current digital news landscape.
On managing news assets by producers:
On scholarly uses of digital news:
On libraries and news preservation:
Nicholas Adams is a Research Fellow of Social Science at The Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Adams founded and leads the Computational Text Analysis Working Group at Berkeley’s D-Lab and BIDS' Text Across Domains (Text XD) initiative. His research focus is on governance, the use of force and legitimation processes, utilizing innovative new text analysis approaches.
Clifford Anderson is the Associate University Librarian for Research and Learning at Vanderbilt University Libraries. Mr. Anderson is involved in academic librarianship, software engineering, and digital humanities projects. He is currently a principal investigator on a planning effort, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to examine and address the technical, legal, and economic challenges of preserving broadcast television news in the twenty-first century.
Bryan Benilous is the Director of Newspaper Products Division for East View Information Services (EVIS). Mr. Benilous leads a division tasked with growing a portfolio of digitized newspapers from around the world at EVIS.
Dorothy Carner is the Head of Journalism Libraries and Adjunct Professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, University of Missouri. Ms. Carner oversees both the Frank L. Martin Journalism Library and the Columbia Missourian Newspaper Library, and is part of a team working on digital news preservation issues which includes a recent survey of e-legal deposit at national libraries.
James Danowski is a Communication Professor (retired) in the Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago. Professor Danowski taught quantitative research methods for doctoral students at UIC. His teaching and research centers on semantic network analyses of big data text from social media, email, and news.
Mary Feeney is the Social Sciences Librarian in the Research and Learning Department at University of Arizona Libraries. Ms. Feeney provides instructional and research support for faculty and students and manages the library’s collection of newspapers and news databases. She has presented and written about the use of newspapers by researchers, managing collections, text mining and the digital humanities.
Robert Lee is the Director of Strategic Partnerships for East View Information Services. Mr. Lee joined East View Information Services in 2007, where he oversees development of alliances with academic, commercial, and government institutions. His work at East View focuses largely on Russia, East Asia, and the Middle East, and the creation of content solutions to support research in the social sciences, STM, and global news media.
Ann Okerson is the Senior Adviser on Electronic Resources for the Center for Research Libraries. Ms. Okerson joined the Center for Research Libraries as Senior Advisor in fall 2011. She served as Associate University Librarian for Collections & International Programs at Yale University for 15 years, where she organized the Northeast Research Libraries Consortium (NERL).
Patrick Reakes is the Associate Dean Scholarly Resources & Services at George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida. Mr. Reakes’ s current research focuses on the impact of the evolving digital environment on news archiving and the uses of news in research.
Evan Sandhaus is the Executive Director of Knowledge and Metadata Management at The New York Times. Mr. Sandhaus leads teams responsible for populating and organizing The Times’ 165-year-old archive. He led creation of the TimesMachine retrospective database, directed The Times Linked Open Data initiative, and collaborated with major search companies on schema.org.
Philip Spiegel is currently Senior Director for Content Management Operations at the LAC Group, and has led development and implementation of digital asset management capabilities for several major U.S. broadcast networks. Mr. Spiegel has over 20 years of experience as a media archive and asset management professional, preserving, managing and monetizing film, video and image content and providing transparency, access and opportunity in the enterprise libraries of major media organizations.
Mark Sweeney is the Associate Librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress. Since 2015 Mr. Sweeney has been responsible for carrying out activities in support of the library’s key mission, which is to acquire, organize, provide access to, maintain, secure, and preserve a universal collection. Previously, Sweeney served as preservation director and chief of the Serials and Government Publications Division. He coordinated the library’s role in the United States Newspaper Program (USNP) and also served as program manager for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
Links
[1] https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/highlight_images/eDesiderata%20logo%20final_1.jpg
[2] https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/event_materials/Session%20I%20Conversation%201.pdf
[3] https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/event_materials/Session%20I%20Conversation%202.pdf
[4] https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/event_materials/Session%20I%20Conversation%203.pdf
[5] https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/event_materials/Session%20II%20Conversation%201.pdf
[6] https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/event_materials/Session%20II%20Conversation%202.pdf
[7] https://www.crl.edu/blogs/sustaining-access-news-what-we-learned-edesiderata-2017
[8] https://edesiderata.crl.edu
[9] https://www.crl.edu/facets/newspapers
[10] https://www.crl.edu/facets/licensing
[11] https://www.crl.edu/facets/collections
[12] mailto:events@crl.edu
[13] https://www.crl.edu/events
[14] https://www.crl.edu/reports/preserving-news-digital-environment
[15] https://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/01/how-to-build-a-timesmachine/
[16] https://www.acquia.com/blog/past-and-present-evolution-media-company-cms-platforms/15/10/2015/3289006
[17] http://www.pbs.org/coredata/home/
[18] https://www.ifla.org/files/assets/newspapers/2017_Iceland/2017-feeney-en.pdf
[19] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4419-6287-4_3
[20] http://www.decidingforce.org/project
[21] http://www.pewresearch.org
[22] http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1080&context=westernarchives
[23] https://www.ifla.org/files/assets/clm/publications/13_-_2015_an_international_survey_of_born_digital_legal_deposit_policies_and_practices.pdf
[24] http://www.ifla.org/files/assets/newspapers/Geneva_2014/s6-carner-en.pdf
[25] http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1150&context=charleston