blog preservation: some considerations
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Slides from short presentation at the Digital Curation Professional Institute, held Jan. 7-8, 2013, Chapel Hill, NC.TRANSCRIPT
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CAROLYN HANK DIGITAL CURATION PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTE
JANUARY 8, 2013
CHAPEL HILL, NC
BLOG PRESERVATION … some considerations
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133 million blogs indexed by Technorati
between 2002 and 2008.
White & Winn, 2009
GENERAL BLOGGERS 2006-2008
MOTIVATION BEHIND STUDY …
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People rely heavily on service
providers, often taking no
additional actions toward the
persistence of their user-
generated content.
Marshall, Bly & Brun-Cottan, 2006
GENERAL BLOGGERS 2006-2008
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NEEDLE IN A
HAYSTACK population
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS (ACTIVE) 2009-2011
2
SAMPLING ISSUES…
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population
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS (ACTIVE) 2009-2011
SAMPLING ISSUES…
CHAMELEON IN
A HAYSTACK
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SCHOLAR BLOGGERS (ACTIVE) 2009-2011
MORE
SAMPLING
CONSIDERATIONS
?
Multiple instances
Multiple authors
Scholar blogger(?)
Scholarly blog(?)
Currency
Timing
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%
preservation for public access
& use into the indefinite future
PRESERVATION
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS 2
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PRESERVATION
0% 100%
Personal access/use
Indefinite future
Public access/use
Indefinite future
Personal access/use
Short-term future
Public access/use
Short-term future
16%
19%
76%
80%
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS 2
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SCHOLAR BLOGGERS 2
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
RESPONSIBILITY CAPABILITY
Blogger
Co-Author(s)
Provider/Host/Network
Search Engine
Public Trust
PRESERVATION PREFERENCES
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first line of
defense
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS 2
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final line of
defense
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS 2
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0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
RESPONSIBILITY CAPABILITY
Blogger
Co-Author(s)
Provider/Host/Network
Search Engine
Public Trust
Nat'l Library
Nat'l Archive
Inst'l Library
Inst'l Archive
Inst'l IT Dept
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS 2
PRESERVATION PREFERENCES
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%
Purposefully save entire blog via an
archiving service or independently
SAVING
Subscription
services
Export tools
Personal
back-ups
Document/text files
Via syndication
services
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS 2
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examples:
BACKUPIFY
BLOGBACKUPR
BACKUPMYBLOG
INTERNET ARCHIVE
LOC’s LEGAL BLAWGS ARCHIVE
Subscription to web or blog archiving or back-up service
SERVICES
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS 2
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%
SAVING
Purposefully save some
blog components
Export tools
Personal
back-ups
Document/text files
Via syndication
services
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS 2
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BUT … RIGHTS & USE
Creative
Commons (n=13)
Copyright
Statement (n=34)
%
no rights or use statements
at blog or post level
2 SCHOLARS’ BLOGS
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%
DISCLAIMERS
have an explicit or implicit
disclaimer-style statement
Own
opinion
Not
responsible
Advice
THOUGH 80% FEEL BLOG IS PART OF THEIR SCHOLARLY RECORD …
2 SCHOLARS’ BLOGS
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%
DELETING
delete posts after publication
Duplicate
Post
“Post Regret”
Too sensitive or revealing
THOUGH 80% FEEL BLOG SHOULD BE PRESERVED …
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS 2
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BLOG DELETION
%
have deleted a blog
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS 2
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if? What
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SADNESS
C’EST LA VIE
RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER
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Devastated,
both emotionally and
professionally.
Pretty
bad.
Very
sad.
SADNESS
C’EST LA VIE
RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER
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Mad as hell.
I’d do something
drastic [in response].
Pretty
peeved. Angry
& upset.
SADNESS
C’EST LA VIE
RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER
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I don’t have to
do it anymore. I get half an
hour of my
life back.
SADNESS
C’EST LA VIE
RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER
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Not welcomed
but not tragic …
I’d get over it.
Probably
have a drink &
forget about it.
Pour another cup
of coffee & get
back to work. Drop out …
until something else
comes along.
SADNESS
C’EST LA VIE
RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER
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It would take an
extreme catastrophe.
How would
that happen?
SADNESS
C’EST LA VIE
RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER
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PUBLICLY AVAILABLE = 570 (86%)
PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH = 544 (84%)
KNOWLEDGE OR PERSONAL BLOG = 498 (77%)
TIME-STAMPED POSTS = 496 (77%)
ACTIVELY PUBLISHED TO = 271 (42%)
AT LEAST 1 YEAR OLD = 231(36%)
IDENTIFIERS (RE: AUTHORSHIP) = 208 (32%)
BLOG ELIGIBILITY (644)
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS (ACTIVE) 2009-2011
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WHAT ABOUT THOSE BLOGS THAT ARE
INACTIVE BUT STILL PUBLICLY
AVAILABLE …
As reported by Viegas (2005),
bloggers assume persistency of their
blogs unless deliberate action is
taken (by the blogger) to remove it.
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left no message behind
on where they went or
if they will be back etc.
%
Available but
not actively
published to
in previous
3 months (n=156)
blog analysis
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS (ACTIVE) 2009-2011
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SCHOLAR BLOGGERS (INACTIVE) 2011-PRESENT
Hank. C., & Lent, A.R. (2012). Dispatches from blog purgatory: Final messages from scholars’ inactive blogs. #Influence12: Symposium & workshop on measuring influence on social media. Halifax, Nova Scotia
HUMANITIES, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SCIENCES, PROF. & USEFUL ARTS
BLOG X N=1779
BLOG ANALYSIS n=909
no new posts > 3 months
3
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2012-PRESENT 4
RESULTS COMING SOON …
SUMMER 2013
BIBLIOBLOGGERS (IN/ACTIVE) 2012-PRESENT
4
OCLC/ALISE Library & Information Science Research Grant Program
QUESTIONNAIRES
INTERVIEWS
BLOG ANALYSIS
CV ANALYSIS BLOGGER
BLOG BLOG X
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Hank. C. (2011). Scholars and their blogs: Characteristics, preferences, and perceptions
impacting digital preservation (Doctoral dissertation). ProQuest Dissertations &
Theses database (UMI No. 3456270).
Hank. C., & Lent, A.R. (2012). Dispatches from blog purgatory: Final messages from
scholars’ inactive blogs. #Influence12: Symposium & workshop on measuring
influence on social media. Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Hank, C., Sheble, L., & Choemprayong, S. (2007). Informing blog appraisal through
bloggers’ perspectives on selection and preservation. Paper presented at the
Conference on Appraisal in the Digital World, Rome, Italy.
Marshall, C.C., Bly, S., & Brun-Cottan, F. (2006). The long term fate of our digital
belongings: Toward a service model for personal archives. Archiving 2006 Final
Program and Proceedings, 3 (pp. 25–30). Springfield, VA: Society for Imaging
Sciences and Technology.
Sheble, L., Choemprayong, S., & Hank. C. (2007). Preservation in context: Survey of
blogging behaviors. In Proceedings of the Third International Digital Curation
Conference. Edinburgh: Digital Curation Centre.
Viegas, F.B. (2007). Bloggers' expectations of privacy and accountability: An initial
survey. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(3). Retrieved from
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue3/viegas.html
White, D., & Winn, P. (2009). State of the blogosphere: 2008. Technorati. Retrieved from
http://technorati.com/blogging/feature/state-of-the-blogosphere-2008/
SOURCES
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