Call for Papers - World Wide Web Journal (Springer)
Special Issue on Social Media Preservation and Applications
Background
The rise of the blogosphere and the following explosive growth of social
media applications and communities have affected greatly our culture and
communications. The research community is aware of the need to preserve
social media records for future generations. Thus, social media archiving
and long term digital preservation has become highly relevant. The key
challenges of social media preservation are expanding over many fields
including Web archiving, semantic Web, digital preservation, social
computing and open access.
Scope
The primary goal of this special issue is to exchange the latest fundamental
advances in the state of the art and practice of social media preservation
and related areas. We are interested not only in papers with algorithmic
innovations, but also in leading work on applications, experimental
implementations and evaluations.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
Social media modeling & analysis
Current state of social media and trends Social Web archiving Web digital
preservation Social network analysis Web 2.0 and semantic Web Cultural
patterns and representations Spam detection Social media content
classification Interoperability Resource adaptation, allocation and delivery
Blogs, micro-blogs, internet forums Topic detection Case studies Social
media preservation case studies Archiving applications and systems Blog
preservation technologies within applications and services Content
refreshing, migration, replication, emulation Information retrieval Topic
detection Metadata & metadata schemas Preservation policies Web digital
preservation strategies Digital rights management
Manuscript Submission
Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has
neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals. Springer
offers authors, editors and reviewers of World Wide Web Journal a
Web-enabled online manuscript submission and review system. Manuscripts
should be submitted to:
http://WWWJ.edmgr.com
under the article type 'Social Media Preservation'.
All submissions will be reviewed based on technical merit and relevance.
Schedule
Deadline for paper submission: October 1, 2012
First round notification: January 1, 2013
Revised version due: March 1, 2013
Guest Editors
Yannis Manolopoulos
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
manolopo at csd.auth.gr
Alexandra Cristea
University of Warwick, UK
A.I.Cristea at warwick.ac.uk
Dimitrios Katsaros
University of Thessaly, Greece
dkatsar at inf.uth.gr
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