The upcoming Digital Editors Network (DEN) meeting on Oct. 14 in Manchester, England will feature discussions regarding online journalism standards, digital editions and data scraping, Journalism.co.uk reported today. According to How Do, the agenda will include debates surrounding newspapers' responsibility towards blogs and Twitter entries written by journalists and corrections of online content.

"The Government is promising to unleash a tsunami of data and how publishers respond to the opportunity will be crucial to the development of online journalism," said Nick Turner, the event's organiser, according to the DEN blog. "Rumours of a new iPad subscription plan for publishers being prepared by Apple should focus minds on how we make the most of new platforms. Finally, we aim to consider how far the self-regulatory framework that upholds newspapers standards should extend in the online world."

Participants include Will Gore from the Press Complaints Commission (PCC), Ben Edwards, from digital publisher PageSuite and Francis Irving from ScraperWiki, which provides online tools to gather relevant information from the Web regarding a given subject.

Gore will be speaking about the PCC's decision to offer a consultation that examines extending its remit to the Internet while Edwards plans to talk about new platforms, mobile and reader apps as well as how to boost profitability. How-Do noted that Edwards helped launch one of the first regional newspaper iPad apps. Irving will explain how ScraperWiki may be striving to become the "biggest data repository" in the world and the implications that has for the news industry, Journalism.co.uk confirmed.

Places for the free event can be booked here.