ARCHIVING SOCIAL MEDIA WORKSHOP: SESSION 2: SCOPING POLICIES & SELECTION CRITERIA

About the workshop

The main idea of the IIPC Social Media Workshop was to gain a better understanding of the existing best practices. The event comprised two sessions. The first session focused on tools and workflows in social media archiving, including the benefits and drawbacks of specific tools, how to choose the best tool(s) and workflow development. The second session focused on the different selection policies for social media content. IIPC members presented their scoping policies and the selection criteria used in their institutions, including the rationale behind the choice of the social media platforms to archive and which content to scope out. 

 Who is the event for?

IIPC members: web archivists and curators who curate web archive collections containing social media or who capture social media using (non-)commercial tools. This event was also for any IIPC members who do not currently archive social media and would like to learn more about the best practices in the community.

Questions for this session:

• How do you keep the scoping policy up to date (emerging/disappearing social media platforms)
• Which content is scoped out? 
• How do you define operational selection criteria for your (multilingual) institution? 
• How can policies guarantee representativeness and transparency?

FORMAT

INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY OF SESSION 1: Karolina Holub & Olga Holownia 

PRESENTATIONS [40 minutes]

• Library of Congress: Rashi Joshi, LC’s new social media supplementary guidelines
• Library and Archives Canada: Tom Smyth, Archiving social media at LAC (thematic social media, collections, procedures for the export of social media archives)
• The National Archives UK: Claire Newing & Tom Storrar, The UK Government Social Media Archive
• KBR | Royal Library of Belgium, Fien Messens: selection criteria for social media

BREAKOUT SESSIONS [30 minutes]

Facilitators: Abbie Grotke (Library of Congress), Fien Messens & Friedel Geerhart (KBR), Karolina Holub, and Olga Holownia

Wrap-up & next steps [15 minutes]

Presentations include:

KBR – Royal Library of Belgium
Library and Archives Canada
Library of Congress
National Archives, UK

The workshop was organised by the IIPC in partnership with the National and University Library in Zagreb and KBR – Royal Library of Belgium.

The registration is open to IIPC members only.