Archiving social media for beginners
Lode Scheers Nastasia Vanderperren
Social media has become an integral part of our daily lives. Moreover, social media play a very important role in communicating about various social topics and do so by a wide range of actors. As such, the channels serve as a valuable source for (scientific) research, but, because of the volatile nature of the content, they are still rarely archived. We collaborated with KADOC-KU Leuven in the project Best Practices for the Archiving of Social Media in Flanders and Brussels, to research how to capture and archive this specific online information and make it future-proof. During the project, we tested a large number of tools, developed workflows and wrote manuals for archiving social media, and published them on our knowledge base. The manuals are written to facilitate users with little to no IT skills to start archiving social media. 

An overview of the published manuals and workflows on our knowledge base:
- [Archiving YouTube videos using Tartube](https://www.projectcest.be/wiki/Publicatie:YouTube_video%27s_archiveren_met_Tartube) 
- [Archiving social media accounts using ArchiveWeb.page](https://www.projectcest.be/wiki/Publicatie:Sociale_media_accounts_archiveren_met_ArchiveWeb.page)
- [Workflows for capturing social media accounts](https://www.projectcest.be/wiki/Publicatie:Workflows_voor_de_captatie_van_individuele_sociale_media_accounts)

These will be translated into English before iPRES 2024.

What will you learn?
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This hands-on workshop aims to give the participants an easy way to start archiving social media accounts. The tools introduced during the workshop are selected to be user-friendly and will be jointly configured and used to capture social media content during the workshop. 

We would like to introduce the following tools:
- ArchiveWeb.page, a Chrome extension for capturing social media accounts while retaining the look & feel;
- Tartube, a tool for archiving videos, channels and accounts of video-sharing platforms, e.g. YouTube;
- Browsertrix-cloud (TBD), a hosted solution for capturing social media accounts while retaining the look & feel;
- ReplayWeb.page, a hosted solution for accessing web archives.

The final list is subject to change. All tools are open-source and free. 

At the end of the workshop participants will have a captured social media account and will be able to use the introduced tools independently.
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