title: An Overview of Social Media Archiving Tools
creators: Zefi Kavvadia
abstract: <p>This report is the outcome of a project funded by the Dutch Digital Heritage Network/Netwerk&nbsp;Digitaal Erfgoed (DDHN/NDE) between 2019 and 2020, which called for cultural heritage&nbsp;institutions in the Netherlands to conduct research in order to build knowledge and capacity&nbsp;in social media archiving. The projects that were selected ranged from looking into criteria for&nbsp;appraising and selecting social media collections, to legal issues in social media archiving&nbsp;and the problematics of offering access to such collections.</p>
  
  <p>As part of developing our born-digital archiving expertise, the International Institute of&nbsp;Social History in Amsterdam proposed to NDE and undertook a project on social media&nbsp;archiving tools. The project looked specifically at tools for the capturing of social media&nbsp;content, and its aim was to assist professionals working mainly but not exclusively at cultural&nbsp;heritage organizations to select appropriate tools for social media archiving. The result is an&nbsp;overview of a range of tools for social media capturing falling into two broad categories: those&nbsp;preserving the &ldquo;look and feel&rdquo; of social media, and those preserving structured social media&nbsp;data. The tool survey is accompanied by a contextualization of social media archiving tool&nbsp;selection as an archival issue, and by the description of use cases that display tool usage in&nbsp;different contexts.</p>
keywords: social media archiving archivering van sociale media software