Documenting the Now: Building Tools and a Community for Social Media Archiving

Details

• Creators:
  Jules, Bergis
• Corporate Creators:
  University of California, Riverside
• Corporate Contributors:
  American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) ; National Transportation Knowledge Network (NTKN) (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Social media
  • Metadata
  • Collection development
  • Libraries
  • Visualization
  • Data collection
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/9tyw-j084
• Resource Type:
  Presentations
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. National Transportation Library
• Abstract:
  University of California, Riverside Archivist Bergis Jules presents an overview of the “Document the Now” project. Funded in December 2015 by the Mellon Foundation, this project was started because Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, Missouri. Watching the events unfold on social media presented an opportunity to think about archiving in that space. The project aims to address ethics, rights, and privacy issues around collection, preservation, and access to social media data. Jules also discusses developing a community around social media archiving.
• Content Notes:
  Recording length: 1h 00m 30s
• Format:
  MPEG
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/77422/dot_77422_DS1.mp4
• File Type:
  [MP4 - 90.32 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Transportation Librarians Roundtable
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e8da3aed5337734beb8dd04cdf480bc1812b928dce545e814802617799d176302970db2d7773a28a903ff84b27b0c90e20243f6ae40c1f1b4cbc4857a8af4edd