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A Report from the Task Force on Technical Approaches for Email Archives August 2018. 120 pp. $20 (print version) ISBN 978-1-932326-59-8 CLIR pub 175 PDF Download of Full Report (6 MB) >> Read Japanese translation (courtesy Seigakuin University) >> Order Print Copy: see bottom of page Email is an increasingly important part of the historical Read More

Social Feed Manager is open source software that harvests social media data and related content from Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, and Sina Weibo.

Article: Perseids: Experimenting with Infrastructure for Creating and Sharing Research Data in the Digital Humanities

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Open sharing of social media data raises new ethical questions that researchers, repositories and data curators must confront, with little existing guidance available. In this paper, the authors draw upon their experiences in their multiple roles as data curators, academic librarians, and researchers to propose the STEP framework for curating and sharing social media data. The framework is intended to be used by data curators facilitating open publication of social media data. Two case studies from the Dryad Digital Repository serve to demonstrate implementation of the STEP framework. The STEP framework can serve as one important ‘step’ along the path to achieving safe, ethical, and reproducible social media research practice.

"We like to think of ourselves as the paper of record, but then it’s important that we actually keep those records."

To preserve bygone software, files, and more, researchers are working to emulate decades-old technology in the cloud.

On the disappearance of the digital archives of newly-dead newspapers.

Many data centers still use good, reliable magnetic tape—a backup quickly becoming obsolete. What will become of the forgotten data preserved on the tape of the past?

You may think that anything uploaded onto the internet is there forever—but the constant churn is a challenge to the archivists trying to backup the web.

Hidden away in Mick Crouch's office at Archives New Zealand is an Aladdin's cave of old technology.