BlogForever

On Saturday, June 9, BlogForever was once again present to its appointment with Science, participating for the second year in the Long Night of Science in Berlin. The Long Night of Science is an annual event in Berlin and other German cities where large scientific institutions demonstrate their research topics and accomplishments to the public. TUB [...]

Where can one personally meet bloggers from 50 countries and discuss the urgent issues of digital society in Europe? Right in the heart of Berlin, Germany. This year, BlogForever once again presented our consortium’s efforts at re:publica, Germany´s biggest conference for social media issues and innovation ( http://www.re-publica.de/). The conference took place for the seventh year in Berlin [...]

The fifth BlogForever Consortium Meeting took place during 11-12 February 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey.

In addition to the meeting, technical partners participated in a full day workshop focused on the development of the BlogForever platform.

The BlogForever project will be present on the CeBIT exhibition in Hannover/Germany from 05 to 09 March 2013. The CeBIT is ( http://www.cebit.de/en/about-the-trade-show/facts-figures/about-cebit-2013)

the world’s largest trade fair showcasing digital IT and telecommunications solutions for home and work environments. The key target groups are users from industry, the wholesale/retail sector, skilled trades, banks, the services sector, government agencies, [...]

BlogForever was presented in the event ” AUTH at NOESIS “ (Greek site only). The event was organized by the Research Committee and the Employment and Career Service of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki during 18 – 20 January 2013 in the premises of NOESIS Science Center and Technology Museum  in Thessaloniki. The aim of the event was to showcase the research activities of the [...]

The 2 nd BlogForever review meeting was held in Berlin on the 6 th of November 2012, hosted excellently by mokono (Populis). The coordinator (AUTH) presented the status and the overall achievements of the project, that are summarized in the project statement . The review continued with partners from UW and TUB presenting the results of the study that the project [...]

 The forth BlogForever Consortium Meeting took place during 10-11 September 2012 in Oslo, Norway. All project partners came together to discuss about current progress and plan for our next steps. The main topics of the meeting were: The development of BlogForever Policies regarding blog preservation (WP3), The current progress of BlogForever platform development (WP4), The first case studies (WP5), The BlogForever business model (WP6). [...]

I’d like to propose an alternative digital preservation view for the BF partners to consider. The preservation problem is undoubtedly going to look complicated if we concentrate on the live blogosphere. It’s an environment that is full of complex behaviours and mixed content. Capturing it and replaying it presents many challenges. But what type of [...]

Special Issue on Social Media Preservation and Applications (pdf) 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 [...]

Last saturday, BlogForever was present at the Long Night of Science in Berlin and explained the necessity and challenges of blog preservation as well as the objectives and the status of the project to the general public. A lot of people were interested in the project and have not realized before that information could get lost in the [...]

The paper: ” Trends in Blog Preservation ” will be presented at a keynote speech at the the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems , to be held on 28 June-1 July 2012 in Craiova, Romania. Authors: Vangelis Banos, Nikos Baltas, Yannis Manolopoulos Abstract: Blogging is yet another popular and prominent application in the era of Web 2.0. According to recent measurements often considered [...]

BlogForever hosted a small session yesterday afternoon at re:publica, Germany’s largest blogging and social media conference with more than 4,000 visitors from over 30 countries (http://re-publica.de/12/).  Our session was related to the urgency of blog preservation and other relevant themes in digital archiving. As we get closer and closer to our final software, we keep in [...]

A paper with the title ” The Blogosphere as Œuvre: Individual and collective influences on bloggers ” has been accepted in the European Conference on Information Systems , to be held on 11-13 June 2012 in Barcelona, Spain. Authors: Hendrik Kalb, Matthias Trier Abstract: Blogging has often been described as writing an online diary but, nowadays, it is more diverse and a considerable amount of [...]

Recently I have been putting together my report on the extent to which the BlogForever platform operates within the framework of the OAIS model . Inevitably, I have thought a bit about migration as one of the potential approaches we could use to preserve blog content. Migration is the process whereby we preserve data by shifting it [...]