BESOCIAL : towards a sustainable strategy for archiving and preserving social media in Belgium

The amount of digital data we produce every day is mind-boggling. The content produced on social media fuels the flood of data. However, social media content is very ephemeral and is often not archived by universities or heritage institutional stakeholders, creating serious challenges for (digital) scholars who want to use the content of archived social media as a source. Also, the absence of social media in national web archiving initiatives raises great challenges of preserving our digital heritage and supporting the understanding of contemporary society and its future. This poster abstract... Mehr ...