{Digital Storytelling}
Jonathan Younker
Dan Andrade
Meet the Team
Head, Library Systems & Technologies
Jonathan
Jonathan
Resource
Library Systems Analyst
Dan
Student Research Assistant
Danielle
Head, Archives & Special Collections
David
Library Systems Analyst
Dan
Library Systems Analyst
Dan
Library Systems Analyst
Dan
Goals
Collect
Identify and collect information, data, and stories related to the Games
1.
2.
Store
Upload content to the Library's digital platforms for short and long term storage
3.
Disseminate
Make content available to researchers and the public
Challenges
- Scope
- COVID-19
- Similar projects
- Social media challenges
- News story challenges
Where we are
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Data collected:
- Twitter: 161,897 tweets
- Instagram: 6,062 posts
- News stories: 481 stories
- St. Catharines Standard
- Toronto Star & properties
- Associated Press
- Brock News
- More to come
- Qualitative data (interviews)
Social Media
- Challenges
- Process
- Scrapers/API
- Data Evolution
First Twitter Post - Jan 28th, 2017
Last Twitter Post - Aug 21th, 2022
First Instagram Post - Jan 24th, 2017
Last Instagram Post - Aug 30th, 2022
What's next
- Search interface
- WARC data
- Archive-IT
- Additional news sources
- Repositories linked
- Future directions
Canada Games Digital Storytelling
By jyounker
