Content Selection and Curation for Web Archiving; The Gatekeepers vs the Masses (Presentation)

dc.contributor.authorRuest, Nick
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-22T14:18:43Z
dc.date.available2016-06-22T14:18:43Z
dc.date.issued2016-06-22
dc.description.abstractAny preservation effort must begin with an assessment of what content to preserve, and web archiving is no different. There have historically been two answers to the question "what should we archive?'' The Internet Archive's broad entire-web crawls have been supplemented by narrower domain or topic-specific collections gathered by numerous libraries. We can characterize this as content selection and curation by "gatekeepers''. In contrast, we have witnessed the emergence of another approach driven by "the masses''---we can archive pages that are contained in social media streams such as Twitter. The interesting question, of course, is how these approaches differ. We provide an answer to this question in the context of a case study about the 2015 Canadian federal elections. Based on our analysis, we recommend a hybrid approach that combines an effort driven by social media and more traditional curatorial methods.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was supported by a research grant -- 435-2015-0011 -- issued by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/31399
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAttribution 2.5 Canada*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjecttwitteren
dc.subjectweb archivesen
dc.subjectsubject-matter expertsen
dc.subjectcollection developmenten
dc.subjectinternet archiveen
dc.titleContent Selection and Curation for Web Archiving; The Gatekeepers vs the Masses (Presentation)en
dc.typePreprint

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