Archiving Social Media Workshop Two (June 2019)

Abstract

• The workshop was organised by the British Library Web Archiving Team with support from Maja Maricevic, Head of Higher Education at the British Library on Monday 10th June 2019. The participants at the workshop were a mix of academic researchers, postgraduate research students and information professionals from the British Library, The National Archives, BBC and the Imperial War Museum. The aim of this workshop was to review the requirements researchers have when working with social media data. The British Library are keen to get a closer understanding of the existing research projects where social media data was used or there was an intention to use it, but this was not possible. We are also interested to discuss re-use of data sets that could be created. This would help us towards having a more nuanced view of what would be useful for researchers working with social media data.