New Zealand - Collecting social media a bite at a time

[PeterK]

Our team has noticed that content is shifting away from the traditional website to social media. This is understandable — it’s easier to post content and quick to circulate. It’s also much more difficult to collect!

This worries us that some of our documentary heritage may be lost if we don’t start collecting content in this area.

Collecting social media is a bit of a mine field. There are legal, privacy and technical issues to work through. So far, we’ve only been able to collect small amounts of social media since we started harvesting the web.

Social media timeline

Social media platforms have grown and multiplied in the last couple of decades. Here’s a partial timeline of platforms that have come, and sometimes gone.

http://bit.ly/2vTe3PQ
http://bit.ly/2vTe3PQ+


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Peterk
Dallas, Tx
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