When slowing down means moving fast: A blog about iPRES 2022 from the IISG

Commercial Social Media Archiving Tools: Summary of First Survey by NDE/IISG

Social media archiving is one of the latest hot topics in digital preservation and information and records management. It is now becoming widely recognized that the contemporary record, whether it is meant for evidence, research, memory or any combination of the above, can and will very often contain material originating from various social media platforms. Background of the project In the Netherlands too there has been recent mounting interes...

Examples of social media

Social networking sites e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Telegram, Viber, Signal, I-message, Facebook Messenger, WeChat; dating apps such as Tinder, Bumble, Inner Circle, Grindr– sites that connect friends, groups based on interests or professions. Blogs e.g. Medium, Wordpress, Blogger, and Tumblr; Twitter can be considered as micro-blogging Image and video sharing platforms e.g YouTube, Vimeo, Tumblr, Instagram, Snapchat, Imgur, TikTok, a...