{"id":7547,"date":"2020-07-07T03:55:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T03:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7547"},"modified":"2020-07-07T03:55:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T03:55:30","slug":"documenting-the-now-and-other-social-media-tools-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7547","title":{"rendered":"Documenting the Now (and other social media tools\/services)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.docnow.io\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/docnow.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Documenting the Now develops tools and builds community practices that support the ethical collection, use, and preservation of social media content.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been talking with the folks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.massmine.org\/\">MassMine<\/a> (I&#8217;m on their Advisory Board) about tools that can gather information off the web and I was pointed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.docnow.io\/\">Documenting the Now<\/a> project that is based at the University of Maryland and the University of Virginia with support from Mellon. DocNow have developed tools and services around documenting the &#8220;now&#8221; using social media. DocNow itself is an &#8220;appraisal&#8221; tool for twitter archiving. They then have a great <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.docnow.io\/\">catalog of twitter archives<\/a> they and others have gathered which looks like it would be great for teaching.<\/p>\n<p>MassMine is at present a command-line tool that can gather different types of social media. They are building a web interface version that will make it easier to use and they are planning to connect it to Voyant so you can analyze results in Voyant. I&#8217;m looking forward to something easier to use than Python libraries.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, I found a <a href=\"https:\/\/tags.hawksey.info\/\">TAGS (Twitter Archiving Google Sheet)<\/a> which is a plug-in for Google Sheets that can scrape smaller amounts of Twitter. Another accessible tool is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.octoparse.com\/\">Octoparse<\/a> that is designed to scrape different database driven web sites. It is commercial, but has a 14 day trial.<\/p>\n<p>One of the impressive features of Documenting the Now project is that they are thinking about the ethics of scraping. They have a Social Labels set for people to indicate how data should be handled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documenting the Now develops tools and builds community practices that support the ethical collection, use, and preservation of social media content. I&#8217;ve been talking with the folks at MassMine (I&#8217;m on their Advisory Board) about tools that can gather information off the web and I was pointed to the Documenting the Now project that is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7547\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Documenting the Now (and other social media tools\/services)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,54,21,71,58,32,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","category-big-data","category-blogs-and-blogging-culture","category-digital-archives","category-ethics-of-data-science","category-methods","category-social-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7550,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7547\/revisions\/7550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}