Social Feed Manager presentation at Archives Unleashed 3.0
- 1. Social Media Collecting with Social Feed Manager (in 10 minutes)
- 2. Collecting social media from API vs. website Advantages of API: ā Structured data (typically JSON). ā Tend to be stable. ā Some provide more metadata than available from website. ā Data can be collected efficiently. Disadvantages of API: ā Not all social media platforms have complete, public APIs. ā Data not readily human-viewable. ā Each API is different. ā Some platforms (notably Twitter) limit data sharing. ā May be greater limitations on the data available from API, especially historical data.
- 4. Social Feed Manager (SFM) ā Open-source software. ā Developed by GW Libraries with grant from National Historical Publications & Records Commission. ā Collects social media from APIs of Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr & Sina Webo. Also collects web resources. ā Supports requirements of researchers and archivists/librarians. ā Collect to answer specific research questions. ā Proactively collect to support future research. ā Intended to be provided as a service to the members of a community (as opposed to individual use).
- 8. Example collections ā 2016 U.S. election ā 280 million tweets ā Separate collections for candidates, debates, conventions ā Published to Harvard Dataverse ā End of Term (EOT) collection ā 3000 Twitter accounts ā 70 Tumblr blogs ā Continuing as 2017-2020 Federal Term collection ā Womenās March ā Trump Administration officials ā 115th U.S. Congress ā News outlets ā Chinese anti-corruption ā Sina Weibo and Twitter ā ISIS-related Twitter users ā Latin American political leaders ā George Washington University ā Official accounts and student groups
- 9. Social Feed Manager @SocialFeedMgr sfm@gwu.edu http://go.gwu.edu/sfm Justin Littman @justin_littman justinlittman@gwu.edu