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New Voices and Fresh Perspectives: Collecting Social Media. Brian Dietz @biztz NCSU Libraries TRLN Annual Meeting 2014 23 July 2014. Social Media on Our Homepages. Central. Duke. State. UNC. # YesAllWomen. @ CherieLeJeune. http://www.motherjones.com/files/socialmediamap-1.jpg.
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New Voices and Fresh Perspectives: Collecting Social Media Brian Dietz @biztz NCSU Libraries TRLN Annual Meeting 2014 23 July 2014
Social Media on Our Homepages Central Duke State UNC
#YesAllWomen @CherieLeJeune
Not just for protesters • Public health • Anthropologists • Journalists • Political scientists • Peer review • Scholarly correspondence
“LOC to acquire ENTIRE Twitter archive…” @librarycongress
State of NC’s Social Media Archive http://nc.gov.archivesocial.com/
How would you feel about your photos being added to an archival collection?
"I would be so excited. For me, I think it would be better than winning an iPad."
"Why did you participate?" • 85%: For other Instagram users to see my picture • 75%: To contribute a picture to the NC State archives • 58%: I wanted to win the iPad Mini • 50%: To see my picture on a public display in the Hunt Library or D. H. Hill Library • 25%: Other
EZ Innovation Grant $24,980 JUL 2014-JUN 2015
Overlapping Areas of Work • Collecting activities • Web toolkit
Collecting Activities • Identifying accounts • Official records • Crowdsourced content • Outreach • Technologies
Web Toolkit • Environmental scan of work being • done in the area • Risk assessment for potential legal • concerns • Discussion of the archival research • impact of social media
Web Toolkit • Free and open web documentation • toolkit • Researcher-oriented guidelines for • developing curatorial policies around • social media tools • Incorporating feedback from researchers and cultural heritage professionals
What would you want in the toolkit?
Contact Us! Jason Casden @cazzerson jmcasden@ncsu.edu Brian Dietz @biztz bjdietz@ncsu.edu