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View article: Belgian Social Media Archiving Initiatives Mapped
Belgian Social Media Archiving Initiatives Mapped Open
Research has demonstrated that born-digital collections, in addition to the known physical objects, are increasingly becoming more present in cultural institutions. Still, a clear overview of Belgian social media archiving (SMA) initiative…
View article: BESOCIAL: A Sustainable Knowledge Graph-Based Workflow for Social Media Archiving
BESOCIAL: A Sustainable Knowledge Graph-Based Workflow for Social Media Archiving Open
Social media as infrastructure for public discourse provide valuable information that needs to be preserved. Several tools for social media harvesting exist, but still only fragmented workflows may be formed with different combinations of …
View article: Unlocking web and social media archives for humanities research : a critical reflection
Unlocking web and social media archives for humanities research : a critical reflection Open
Presentation for the IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference virtually held on June 14-16, 2021. This presentation discusses the results of a survey targeted at researchers (n=145) that was done in the context of the PROMISE pro…
View article: BESOCIAL : towards a sustainable strategy for archiving and preserving social media in Belgium
BESOCIAL : towards a sustainable strategy for archiving and preserving social media in Belgium Open
The amount of digital data we produce every day is mind-boggling. The content produced on social media fuels the flood of data. However, social media content is very ephemeral and is often not archived by universities or heritage instituti…