Breaking the Mold: How Digital News Production Changes the Preservation Paradigm

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dc.audienceAudience::Audience::Newspapers Section
dc.audienceAudience::Audience::Preservation and Conservation Section
dc.audienceAudience::Audience::Information Technology Section
dc.conference.sessionTypeInformation Technology, Preservation and Conservation and News Media
dc.conference.venueGreater Columbus Convention Center (GCCC)
dc.contributor.authorReilly, Jr., Bernard F.
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-24T08:36:41Z
dc.date.available2025-09-24T08:36:41Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractIn the last decade the continuing digital revolution and the emergence of mobile and other new communications platforms have radically altered life cycle of news. News gathering, reporting, editing, and distribution in the digital environment increasingly rely upon robust, multi-purpose content management capabilities deployed by large media organizations like the BBC in the U.K., The New York Times in the U.S., and Grupo Clarín in Argentina. In addition, most news published and broadcast today appears in digital formats that depend upon interaction and linkages to other networked content that may reside on entirely separate platforms and cloud repositories. This technical “sea change” challenges the mechanisms upon which research libraries have traditionally relied to preserve news for future generations of scholars and researchers, mechanisms such as legal deposit, print subscriptions, and microform and digital reformatting. The author of this presentation examines the dynamic technologies used in news production today, and the implications those technologies have for library preservation strategies. The author also reflects upon the broader societal functions that libraries fulfil in preserving news, and suggests how library roles must evolve new strategies to remain relevant in the electronic news environment.en
dc.identifier.citationFor a useful description of the role content management systems play in the electronic news editing and production process, see Luke Vnenchak’s June 17, 2014 “Scoop: A Glimpse into the NYTimes CMS.” http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/open/2014/06/17/scoop-a-glimpse-into-the-nytimes-cms/. Accessed May 16, 2016. The features of the text-editing tools in The Guardian’s editorial system are described in Oliver Joseph Ash’s March 20, 2014 blog post, “Inside the Guardian’s CMS: Meet Scribe, an extensible rich text editor.” https://www.theguardian.com/info/developer-blog/2014/mar/20/inside-the-guardians-cms-meet-scribe-an-extensible-rich-text-editor. Accessed April 20, 2016. For an analysis of the Internet Archive’s capture of the New York Times online, see CRL’s review of the Wayback Machine in eDesiderata. https://edesiderata.crl.edu/resources/wayback-machine. For a deeper look at the Internet Archive harvesting process, see Kalev Leetaru’s 2015 blog post “How Much of the Internet Does The Wayback Machine Really Archive?” Forbe,s November 16, 2015, http://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2015/11/16/how-much-of-the-internet-does-the-wayback-machine-really-archive/#5e63e16e88d4, Accessed May 12, 2016. CRL, an international consortium serving academic and independent research libraries, ventured down this path recently with some limited success. In 2014 CRL negotiated the terms of an academic site license for U.S. institutions for online access to www.nytimes.com. The negotiations were difficult and terms were far from ideal, but to date approximately 174 libraries have subscribed under those terms. Since those terms were negotiated The Times has added to the site its entire digitized archive of articles back to its founding in 1851, and academic users now have unrestricted access to The Times online content.
dc.identifier.relatedurlhttp://2016.ifla.org/
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/5895
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject.keywordNews
dc.subject.keyworddigital news
dc.subject.keywordpreservation
dc.subject.keyworddatabases
dc.subject.keywordlicensing
dc.titleBreaking the Mold: How Digital News Production Changes the Preservation Paradigmen
dc.typeArticle
ifla.UnitNewspapers Section
ifla.UnitPreservation and Conservation Section
ifla.UnitInformation Technology Section
ifla.oPubIdhttps://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/1519/

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