{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
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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
