Mark your calendars, registration is now open for Preserving Social Media: a Briefing Day on 27th October at the Wellcome Collection in London. Attendees should expect a diverse range of topics around the challenges of curating, archiving, and sharing social media data from a panel of speakers who demonstrate the value of this emerging social and historical record.
Spaces are limited so please register to reserve your seat.
The DPC and UK Data Service invite you to join our Briefing Day on Preserving Social Media. The Briefing Day will bring together practitioners who work with social media data across multiple sectors, including social sciences, data science, journalism, archives, libraries, and research data management. The Briefing Day will also launch the Technology Watch Report developed from the 12-month study as part of the ESRC’s ‘Big Data Network’ programme. The Briefing Day and report provide an overview of archiving social media and the accompanying challenges posed by forms of big data.
The content generated by social media users provides valuable data for a range of sectors, from government bodies to media outlets to academic researchers in the social sciences and other data-centric disciplines. This study explores the demands and requirements for maintaining social media for long-term access for these user communities and for future generations looking back on life in the early 21st century.
Who should come?
- practitioners of web archiving
- curators or managers of research data
- digital preservation specialists
- data-driven researchers
- data scientists interested in the curation of social media data
- information professionals interested in new developments in digital preservation
- anyone interested in archiving new forms of digital content
DPC Members and UKDS affiliates (including ESRC Big Data Network programme affiliates) will have priority registration until Monday 24 August. Places are strictly limited and should be booked in advance. Registration is open until 20th October 2015 at 17:00.
Attendance is free for DPC members and UKDS affiliates and costs £250 per person for non-members and can be paid by cash or cheque on the day or by cheque in advance (receipts will be issued).
For more information and to register for this event, visit the DPC events page.
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