Transcript New Voices and Fresh Perspectives: Collecting Social Media Brian Dietz @biztz NCSU Libraries TRLN Annual Meeting 2014 23 July 2014

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
Not just for protesters
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Public health
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Anthropologists
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Journalists
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Political scientists
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Peer review
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Scholarly correspondence
“LOC to acquire ENTIRE Twitter
archive…”
@librarycongress
State of NC’s Social Media Archive
http://nc.gov.archivesocial.com/
My #HuntLibrary
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
1.Collecting activities
2.Web toolkit
Collecting Activities
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Identifying accounts
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Official records
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Crowdsourced content
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Outreach
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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
[email protected]
Brian Dietz
@biztz
[email protected]