Conference Agenda

Abstract

Different organizations, different business rules, different choices. That seems obvious. However, different perspectives can alter the choices that you make and therefore the results you get when you’re archiving Social Media. In this tutorial, we would like to zoom in on the different perspectives an organization can have. A perspective can be formed over a mandate or type of organization, the designated community of an institution, or a specific tool that you use. Therefore, we would like to highlight these influences and how they can affect the results that you get.

When you start with Social Media archiving, you won’t get the best results right away. It is really a process of trial and error, where you aim for good practice and not necessarily best practice (and is there such a thing as best practice?). With a practical assignment we want to showcase the importance of collaboration between different organizations. What are the worst practices that we have seen so far? What’s best to avoid, and why? What could be a solution? And why is it a good idea to involve other institutions at an early stage?

This tutorial relates to the conference topics of community, research and tools. It builds on previous work from the Dutch Digital Heritage Network and the BeSocial project from the National Library of Belgium. Furthermore, different tools will be highlighted and it will me made clear why different tooling can result in different results.

Format

In-person tutorial, 90 minutes.

• Introduction: who are the speakers, where do they work, introduction on practices related to different organizations.

• Assignment: participants will do a practical assignment related to social media archiving. They’ll receive persona’s for different institutions (library, government, archive) and ask themselves the question: how does your own organization's perspective influence the choices you make? We will gather the results on post-its and end with a discussion.

• Wrap-up: conclusions of discussion.

Target audience

This tutorial is aimed at those who want to learn more about doing social media archiving at their organizations. It is mainly meant for starters in social media archiving, but not necessarily complete beginners (even though they are definitely welcome too!). Potential participants could be archivists, librarians, repository managers, curators, metadata specialists, (research) data specialists, and generally anyone who is or could be involved in the collection and preservation of social media content for their organization.

Expected number of participants: 20-25.

Expected learning outcome(s)

Participants will understand:

1. Why Social Media archiving is different than Web Archiving;
2. Why different perspectives lead to different choices and results;
3. How tools can affect the potential perspectives you can work with.

In addition, participants will get insight into:

1. The different perspectives from which you can do social media archiving from;
2. How different organizations (could) work on social media archiving.

Coordinators

Susanne van den Eijkel is a metadata specialist for digital preservation at the National Library of the Netherlands. She is responsible for all the preservation metadata, writing policies and implementing them. Her main focus are born-digital collections, especially the web archives. She focuses on web material after it has been harvested, and not so much on selection and tools and is therefore more involved with which metadata and context information is available and relevant for preservation. In addition, she works on the communication strategy of her department; is actively involved in the Dutch Digital Heritage Network and provides guest lectures on digital preservation and web archiving.

Zefi Kavvadia is a digital archivist at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is part of the institute’s Collections Department, where she is responsible for processing of digital archival collections. She is also actively contributing to research, planning, and improving of the IISH digital collections workflows. While her work covers potentially any type of digital material, she is especially interested in the preservation of born-digital content and is currently the person responsible for web archiving at IISH. Her research interests range from digital preservation and archives, to web and social media archiving, and research data management, with a special focus on how these different but overlapping domains can learn and work together. She is active in the web archiving expert group of the Dutch Digital Heritage Network and the digital preservation interest group of the International Association of Labour History Institutions.

Lotte Wijsman is the Preservation Researcher at the National Archives in The Hague. In her role she researches how we can further develop preservation at the National Archives of the Netherlands and how we can innovate the archival field in general. This includes considering our current practices and evaluating how we can improve these with e.g. new practices and tools. Currently, Lotte is active in research projects concerning subjects as social media archiving, AI, a supra-organizational Preservation Watch function, and environmentally sustainable digital preservation. Furthermore, she is a guest teacher at the Archiefschool and Reinwardt Academy (Amsterdam University of the Arts).