Understanding what could possibly be considered social media content on the one hand, and also "archive-worthy" social media content on the other hand, is important for tool selection and assessment, but also for acknowledging that at times the solution might not lie with tools per se. The nature of the content is significant for tool selection For example, to capture Instagram content without capturing its media will result in a collection t...
Social media are identified with the rise of Web 2.0 and the era of increasing online interactivity, personalization, the use of mobile devices and cloud computing. A broad definition like the one proposed by Treem et al. (2016, pp. 770), who see social media as technologies that “create a way for individuals to maintain current relationships, to create new connections, to create and share their own content, and, in some degree, to make their...
The quality attributes mentioned below refer to the features of the tools as software itself, i.e. the ways it achieves what it has been designed to do. They themselves affect the quality of the user experience it offers and the tool’s sustainability (Chung et al. 2000). The requirements listed below were taken from the practice of software testing and software selection. While most of the academic and professional literature on software testi...
The list of functional requirements below is based on an earlier project carried out within IISG which focused on workflows for acquiring and preserving born-digital materials in the broad sense, and another project that looked into web archiving tools and workflows specifically. For this NDE/IISG research on social media archiving tools, we were particularly interested in testing tools and their outcomes with a focus on how they can be used p...
So much of our lives now happens on the newly but firmly established spaces of social media networks. Ideas about a separation between Internet presence and ‘real life’ become increasingly obsolete; as one meme puts it, we used to say BRB (Be Right Back) when we left our computers briefly – no need for this anymore; we live here now. As practical, intellectual, and even emotional labor is now carried out on the web, with Facebook being quest...
