The next speaker in this session at the Social Media Access Days at the German National Library is Katharina Maubach, whose focus here is on data formats for archiving social media data. She works with a project exploring liking activities on social media platforms, especially relating to content from news sites; this covers Disqus, Facebook, YouTube, Xitter, and Instagram.
Ideally, such a cross-platform dataset should be shared with other researchers under FAIR principles (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable), but under the Terms of Service of such platforms and their data access conditions this is very difficult; the focus of Katharina’s …
And next up at the Social Media Access Days at the German National Library are Marco Wähner and Jan Dennis Gumz, exploring the further use of Wikipedia data on the early German federal election in 2025. Because of the unusual circumstances of the election, following the failure of the governing coalition, there was an increased need for information about the election amongst voters, and Wikipedia (as the only public-interest Very Large Online Platform classified by the EU) played an important role here.
But as a collaboratively edited online platform, Wikipedia represents a particularly special information ecosystem; editing activity here also …
It’s a chilly Tuesday in Frankfurt, the Matildas just advanced to the final of the 2026 Women’s Asian Cup, and I’m at the opening of the Social Media Access Days at the German National Library, co-organised by my dear friend Katrin Weller from GESIS, the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. The programme begins with a day in German, and opens with a paper by Pascal Siegers, who introduces the AVERA project. This emerged from a federal ministry project supporting the collection and sharing of data from research projects on racism and far-right extremism, and a first need it …
