ARCHIVING SOCIAL MEDIA WORKSHOP: SESSION 1: TOOLS & WORKFLOWS

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 comprises two sessions. The first session will focus 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 will focus on the different selection policies for social media content. Members will present 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 did not archive social media and wanted like to learn more about the best practices in the community.

Questions for this session:

• What are the pros and cons of using (non-)commercial tools? 
• How do you customize tools to fit your needs?
• Does the representativeness of the data start with the choice of tool? 
• The dream of one general tool, is this a curse or a blessing? 
• The non-obvious social media platforms (TikTok, Reddit, Twitch, …) and their harvesting tools, how do we go about this? 
• How can an organization develop the best workflows for social media archiving: pitfalls and recommendations?  

FORMAT

Introduction: Friedel Geehart, KBR – Royal Library of Belgium & Olga Holownia, IIPC [2 minutes]

Presentations [40 minutes]

• National Library of New Zealand: Abi Beatson, Archiving Twitter with Brandwatch 
• INA (Institut National de l’audio visuel): Jérôme Thièvre, 8 years of archiving Twitter 
• Royal Danish Library: Allan Christophersen, Archiving Tumblr 
• Digital Competences Center of the University of Warsaw: Marcin Wilkowski, ASPW (Archiwum Społeczne Polskiego Webu /  Social Archive of the Polish Web) (Lightning talk) 

Breakout sessions [30 minutes]

Facilitators: Fien Messens & Friedel Geehart (KBR), Helena Byrne (British Library), Karolina Holub (National and University Library of Zagreb) and Olga Holownia

Wrap-up & next steps:

Friedel Geehart, KBR – Royal Library of Belgium & Olga Holownia, IIPC [15 minutes]

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 was open to IIPC members only.