Archiving Social Media at the Alexander Turnbull Library, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa National Library of New Zealand
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Gillian Lee
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Jessica Moran
Abstract
This article explores projects by the Alexander Turnbull Library to collect social media materials that reflect contemporary New Zealand culture and life. The article focuses on projects to harvest Twitter content relating to the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake and the 2017 New Zealand General election, and the ATL100 Facebook Archive project, which piloted collecting personal Facebook account archives relating to Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific from the general public.
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