CNI: Coalition for Networked Information

  • About CNI
    • Membership
    • CNI Collaborations
    • Staff
    • Steering Committee
    • CNI Awards
    • History
    • CNI News
  • Program Plan
    • Current Program Plan
    • Program Plan Archive
  • Topics
  • Events & Projects
    • Membership Meetings
    • Workshops & Projects
    • Other Events
    • Event Calendar
  • Resources
    • Publications by CNI Staff
    • Program Plan
    • Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series
    • Videos & Podcasts
    • Follow CNI
    • Historical Resources
  • Contact Us

Archiving Large Swaths of User-Contributed Digital Content: Lessons from Archiving the Occupy Movement

Home / Project Briefing Pages / CNI Spring 2012 Project Briefings / Archiving Large Swaths of User-Contributed Digital Content: Lessons from Archiving the Occupy Movement

March 30, 2012

Howard Besser
Director, Moving Image Archiving & Preservation MA Program
New York University

David Millman
Director, Digital Library Technology Services
New York University

Sharon M. Leon
Director of Public Projects, Center for History & New Media
George Mason University

Archiving born-digital content from the “Occupy” movement can serve as a prototype for archiving all kinds of user-contributed content. In this presentation, several organizations will discuss the tools and methods they have developed for ingesting, preserving, and offering discovery services to large numbers of digital works where they cannot really rely on the contributors to follow standards and metadata assignment. Topics covered will range from automatic extraction of time-stamp and location metadata (and an empirical analysis of which upload services strip these out), to app development for uploading content along with permission forms, to maintaining lists of frequently-changing URL nodes for web-crawling, to issues in educating content creators in best practices. Speakers will also discuss issues in trying to document a social movement while it is happening.

 

http://activist-archivists.org/
http://www.archive.org/details/occupywallstreet
http://occupyarchive.org/

Presentation (Besser PPT)
Presentation (Millman PPT)
Presentation
 (Leon)
Presentation (Hanna PPTX)

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2012 Project Briefings, Digital Curation, Digital Libraries, Digital Preservation
Tagged With: CNI2012spring, Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions, Videos

Last updated:  Thursday, August 11th, 2022

 

Contact Us

21 Dupont Circle
Suite 800
Washington, DC, 20036
202.296.5098

Contact us
Copyright © 2023 CNI

  • Copyright Policy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Site map

Keeping up with CNI

CNI-ANNOUNCE is a low-volume electronic forum used for information about the activities and programs of CNI, and events and documents of interest to the CNI community.
Sign up

Follow CNI

  • View cni.org’s profile on Facebook
  • View cni_org’s profile on Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • YouTube
  • Vimeo

A joint project