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From: Monica Blake [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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Subject: Call for papers on Web Archives

Apologies for cross-posting

 

Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and
Information Issues invites submissions for a themed issue on Web
Archives and Collecting Websites.

 

Websites and social media services have grown quickly as means of
expression, and memory institutions including national libraries have
been rising to the challenge of preserving these new forms of content
and cultural expression. We are seeking articles on implementation
models for web archiving, the implications of national legal and policy
frameworks, and the value and uses of web archives for scholarly and
other research users.

 

A process of double peer review will be applied. Abstracts are due
Friday 13 December 2013 and the full manuscript for selected articles
will be due Friday 25 April 2014. The themed issue will be published in
Summer 2014.

 

Abstracts should be no more than 1000 words.

 

Full articles should be between 4,000 and 7,500 words long.

Short communications should be no more than 3,000 words long.

Author guidelines are available at
<http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?showinfo=ip01
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http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?showinfo=ip014


 

Suggested topics include:

*	The legal and political environments and their implications for
web
archives
*	The place and value of web archives within a national library's
collections
*	Defining the scope of a national web collection and implementing
it
in practice
*	Collection development goals and strategies for websites
*	Harvesting techniques or other approaches to archiving websites
*	Partnerships and consortia approaches to web archiving
*	Challenges in archiving social media content and streaming media
content
*	Approaches to quality assurance for web archives
*	Preservation strategies for archived web content
*	The long-term sustainability of web archives
*	Metadata standards, and practices for describing archived
websites
*	Approaches to enabling discovery and access for web archives
*	Technologies and techniques for visualizing and analysing web
archives
*	The research value and scholarly uses of web archives
*	Impacts of web archives for reference librarians and other
libraries
*	The overall implementation of web archiving within national
libraries
*	National libraries' organization models for supporting web
archiving
*	Lessons learned from implementation practices within a national
library
*	Benchmarking and lessons learned from other national libraries'
web
archives

 

However, this is not a prescriptive list: Alexandria wishes to present
the widest possible range of papers relating to web archives, including
papers from the perspective of academic libraries, public libraries and
other archiving institutions.

 

Queries about the suitability of a topic should be addressed to the
Editor, Monica Blake ( <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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