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: November 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
