Journal article
Preserving the voices of revolution: Examining the creation and preservation of a subject-centered collection of tweets from the eighteen days in Egypt
The American archivist, Vol.77(2), pp.510-533
2014
DOI: 10.17723/aarc.77.2.794404552m67024n
Abstract
In 2011, Hosni Mubarak abdicated his position of president-for-life after peaceful protests across Egypt. Demonstrators in these protests used social media platforms like Twitter to communicate directly with a global audience, but tweets are ephemeral and there are no standards or best practices for their collection and preservation. Using the revolution in Egypt as a case study, this paper serves as a guide to collection developers who are interested in collecting subject-centered collections of tweets. We will discuss how to collect tweets using Twitter's application programming interface (API) as well as collection development issues related to Twitter's role in the Egyptian revolution. These issues include determining the scope of the collection, quantitative and qualitative collection methods, separating signal from noise, and navigating vernacular and formal languages. We will consider the Twitter platform from an archival perspective and discuss best practice in archiving a collection of tweets. To...
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Preserving the voices of revolution: Examining the creation and preservation of a subject-centered collection of tweets from the eighteen days in Egypt
- Creators
- Timothy ArnoldWalker Sampson
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The American archivist, Vol.77(2), pp.510-533
- DOI
- 10.17723/aarc.77.2.794404552m67024n
- ISSN
- 0360-9081
- eISSN
- 2327-9702
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2014
- Academic Unit
- Circulation & User Services/Undergraduate Engagement
- Record Identifier
- 9983993180302771
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