Technology
Gotta catch ’em all: Archiving digital content such as social media should include linked objects
In the digital media world, there’s no guarantee that material that appears one minute will be there the next. Take, for example, Twitter posts of Anthony Scaramucci, who began deleting old tweets after being named White House communications director. Many — but not all — of the former presidential aide’s postings had already been identified … Continued
Michael Nelson: Presentation: Summarizing archival collections using storytelling techniques
Scroll to view transcript MICHAEL NELSON: [00:07] So, what I’m going to be talking about today is Yasmin [AlNoamany’s] Ph.D. work. [00:11] So, if you ask me any difficult questions I’m going to deflect the answer to her; she’s not far away at Berkeley doing a postdoc there. So, what I want to talk about … Continued
Jennifer Younger: Lightning rounds: Digital preservation: Aggregated, collaborative, Catholic
Scroll to view transcript JENNIFER YOUNGER: [00:07] Thank you, Ed. It’s great to be here. I’m here on behalf of our many stakeholders, our partners, our members, advisors and, of course, founders. What’s fascinating is our work and our project has been a collaboration right from the beginning. Our partners and stakeholders, they know what … Continued
Open the Room Project helps journalists, citizens and towns broadcast on Facebook Live
This week we launch the Open the Room Project, which provides community journalists, citizen activists and town administrators with step-by-step directions to build a scalable, affordable system for streaming public meetings, events and sporting contests. The project was inspired by citizen activists who are streaming town council meetings via smartphones to Facebook Live. Our work … Continued
Panel: The future of the past: Modernizing The New York Times archive
Scroll to view transcript EVAN SANDHAUS: [00:08] Thank you for bearing with me while we get the technical things ironed out. I’m Evan Sandhaus, and I am here with my team today to talk about some work we’ve been doing with migrating The New York Times archives. A little bit later, once we say our … Continued
RJI Fellow expands work on mobile news app for smaller news organizations
Push notifications from The New York Times, the Guardian, BuzzFeed and The Washington Post alert us every day to scandal, horror, scientific achievement and grief. However, this capability lies mainly in the realm of large news organizations. Without a 24-hour news desk, smaller news outlets — especially weeklies and investigative centers — struggle to remind users … Continued
Kalev Leetaru: Lightning Rounds: A Look Inside the World’s Largest Initiative to Archive News
Scroll to view transcript KALEV LEETARU: [00:07] Well thank you so much for having me here today. [00:12] So, this is my vision. This is the GDELT Project. The idea of the GDELT Project is, how do we take the world’s information and try to catalog what’s happening around the world, moment by moment, and how are … Continued
Katherine Boss: Lightning rounds: Challenges facing preservation of born-digital news applications
Scroll to view transcript KATY BOSS: [00:08] Hi everybody. You guys probably remember me from yesterday, but I'll do quick introductions again. I'm Katy Boss. I'm at the New York University Libraries, librarian for journalism, media culture and communication. My two co-authors on this project are Eva Revear and Meredith Broussard, who you guys heard from earlier in the news apps panel; both are at … Continued
Cynthia Joyce: Lightning rounds: Keyword ‘Katrina’: Re-collecting the unsearchable past
Scroll to view transcript CYNTHIA JOYCE: [00:12] This has been a really awesome conference for me to find all the — it’s the right rabbit hole, as I’ve been texting people, for me to fall into, because I had worked on this project a couple of years ago, before I gave any thought to digital archiving, but then it … Continued
Terry Britt: Lightning rounds: News archives as cornerstones of collective memory
Scroll to view transcript TERRY BRITT: [00:07] Hello, everyone. When people ask, “What do I do in research?” I usually reply, “A little bit of journalism study, psychology, sociology and just a tiny dash of neuroscience to really make things interesting.” So, what I wanted to do for this conference is to take some of the psychology and sociology … Continued