[Tccc] CFP: World Wide Web Journal - special issue on Social Media Preservation and Applications

KATSAROS Dimitrios dkatsar
Sun Jun 10 07:19:32 EDT 2012


Call for Papers - World Wide Web Journal (Springer)

Special Issue on Social Media Preservation and Applications

http://www.inf.uth.gr/~dkatsar/papers/WWWJNL_SI_CFP.pdf


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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