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Blog Preservation: Current Challenges and a New Paradigm

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Enterprise Information Systems

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 141))

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Abstract

Blogging is yet another popular and prominent application in the era of Web 2.0. According to recent measurements often considered as conservative, as of now worldwide there are more than 152 million blogs with content spanning over every aspect of life and science, necessitating long term blog preservation and knowledge management. In this work, we present a range of issues that arise when facing the task of blog preservation. We argue that current web archiving solutions are not able to capture the dynamic and continuously evolving nature of blogs, their network and social structure as well as the exchange of concepts and ideas that they foster. Furthermore, we provide directions and objectives that could be reached to realize robust digital preservation, management and dissemination facilities for blogs. Finally, we introduce the BlogForever EC funded project, its main motivation and findings towards widening the scope of blog preservation.

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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Commission Framework Programme 7 (FP7), BlogForever project, grant agreement No.269963. We would also like to thank all BlogForever project partners for their invaluable contributions to the project.

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  1. Department of Informatics, Aristotle University, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Vangelis Banos & Yannis Manolopoulos

  2. Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, SW7 2AZ, UK

    Nikos Baltas

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Banos, V., Baltas, N., Manolopoulos, Y. (2013). Blog Preservation: Current Challenges and a New Paradigm. In: Cordeiro, J., Maciaszek, L.A., Filipe, J. (eds) Enterprise Information Systems. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 141. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40654-6_3

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