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

About the workshop

The main idea of the IIPC Social Media Workshop is to gain a better understanding of the existing best practices. The event comprises two sessions. The first session will focus on tools and workflows in social media archiving including benefits and drawbacks of specific tools, how to choose the best tool(s) and workflow development. The second session will focus on the different selection policies for social media content. Members will present their scoping policies and the selection criteria that are 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 is 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 we are considering 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 [2 minutes]
• Members’ presentations [40 minutes]
• Breakouts sessions [30 minutes]
• 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 is 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.