{"id":956,"date":"2011-10-21T09:01:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T23:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mappingonlinepublics.net\/dev\/2011\/10\/21\/a-call-to-action-on-social-media-archiving\/"},"modified":"2012-04-10T14:12:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T04:12:17","slug":"a-call-to-action-on-social-media-archiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappingonlinepublics.net\/dev\/2011\/10\/21\/a-call-to-action-on-social-media-archiving\/","title":{"rendered":"A Call to Action on Social Media Archiving"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Crossposted from snurb.info. Longer post there.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Briefly back in Australia, yesterday I went down to Sydney to speak at the Australian Society of Archivists’ 2011 Symposium<\/a> (staged at the fabulous Luna Park venue). My paper was meant as an urgent call to action on the question of archiving public activities in social media spaces – so much material which will be of immense value to future researchers is being lost every day if we don’t get our act together very soon; we can’t wait for the lumbering beast that is the U.S. Library of Congress to do the job for us, however fulsomely they’ve promised to archive the full public Twitter firehose<\/a>. The truth is, here in Australia we already have the technologies for capturing and archiving large datasets of public communication on Twitter<\/em> and elsewhere – but someone with the necessary public standing and archivist expertise (the National Library, the National Archives, …) must now take the initiative; the sooner, the better.<\/p>\n

My paper (with audio) is below:<\/p>\n

Archiving the Immediate: How and Why Archives Should Approach Social Media<\/a><\/strong>