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Briefly back in Australia, yesterday I went down to Sydney to speak at the Australian Society of Archivists’ 2011 Symposium [10] (staged at the fabulous Luna Park venue). My paper was meant as an urgent call to action on the question of archiving public activities in social media spaces – so much material which will be of immense value to future researchers is being lost every day if we don’t get our act together very soon; we can’t wait for the lumbering beast that is the U.S. Library of Congress to do the job for us, however fulsomely they’ve promised to archive the full public Twitter firehose [11]. The truth is, here in Australia we already have the technologies for capturing and archiving large datasets of public communication on Twitter and elsewhere – but someone with the necessary public standing and archivist expertise (the National Library, the National Archives, …) must now take the initiative; the sooner, the better.
My paper (with audio) is below:
Having safely returned from Sydney, on Sunday I’m off again; this time to Berlin for the inaugural symposium [15] of the new Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society [16], sponsored by Google and supported inter alia by my dear friends from the Hans-Bredow-Institut [17], Hamburg. The symposium, which should be a very exciting event, will help determine the future research agenda of the new Institute.
After that, I go on to Rio de Janeiro to deliver a keynote on “Gatekeeping, Gatewatching, and Real-Time Feedback” at the annual conference of the Brazilian Society of Journalism Researchers [18] (full paper and slides already online here); and I return to Australia just in time – I hope – to participate in the CCI’s own symposium [19], held mid-November in Sydney. And that should be my travel done for a while, hopefully…
Links
[1] http://snurb.info/taxonomy/term/1
[2] http://snurb.info/taxonomy/term/81
[3] http://snurb.info/taxonomy/term/125
[4] http://snurb.info/taxonomy/term/84
[5] http://snurb.info/taxonomy/term/116
[6] http://snurb.info/taxonomy/term/121
[7] http://snurb.info/taxonomy/term/30
[8] http://snurb.info/taxonomy/term/105
[9] http://snurb.info/taxonomy/term/11
[10] http://www.archivists.org.au/conferenceinfo/symposium-sydney-2011
[11] http://articles.cnn.com/2010-04-14/tech/library.congress.twitter_1_tweets-micro-blogging-twitter?_s=PM:TECH
[12] http://www.slideshare.net/Snurb/archiving-the-immediate-how-and-why-archives-should-approach-social-media
[13] http://www.slideshare.net/
[14] http://www.slideshare.net/Snurb
[15] http://www.berlinsymposium.org/
[16] https://sites.google.com/a/internetundgesellschaft.de/betasite-en/
[17] http://www.hans-bredow-institut.de/en
[18] http://www.sbpjor.org.br/9encontro/?page_id=4
[19] http://cci.edu.au/