building a national agenda for saving online news
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Edward McCain, University of Missouri Peter Broadwell, UCLA Lisa Zirk, University of Missouri Katherine Skinner, Educopia InsBtute
Building a NaBonal Agenda for Saving Online News
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Roadmap
• Why online news needs saving • What we’re doing about it
• How are we doing to date? • Building a NaBonal Agenda
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Why online news needs saving
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Why online news needs saving
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September 11, 2001
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JOURNALISTS PUBLISHERS TECHNOLOGISTS ARCHIVISTS L I B R A R I A N S F A C U L T Y STUDENTS ED ITORS CMS VENDORS DISSEMINATORS R E S E A R C H E R S P R E S S ASSOCIATIONS CONSORTIA C I T I Z E N S E N G I N E E R S
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system-‐level change can be orchestrated through the
deliberate work of stakeholders across the whole system.
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from act to impact
@Educopia, Nov 6
What we’re doing about it
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What we’re doing about it
Source: H. Preskill, M. Parkhurst, J. Splansky Justler, “Learning and EvaluaBon in the CollecBve Impact Context” (FSG, 2014)
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from talking to acBng (jump in!)
What we’re doing about it
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2009 – LC/NDIIPP Workshop: Archiving Digital News
2010 – CiBzen Journalists and Community News 2011 – The Newspaper Archive Summit 2013 – JDNA Launches
2014 – Guidelines for Digital News PreservaBon Readiness 2014 – Dodging the Memory Hole 2014 (Mizzou) 2015 – Dodging the Memory Hole: An AcBon Assembly (NEH)
2016 – Dodging the Memory Hole 2016 (IMLS) Next…?
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118 Ajendees, 15 states+DC, two countries, LOTS of backgrounds
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What have we heard?
We need to meet the nerds where they are. (Ben)
We need both business and social good arguments for preserving news (MaQ)
We have to be mindful of organizaSonal stability—even strong corporaSons are not designed for long-‐term survival (Ana)
We need to ally tech/data infrastructures with archival techniques and principles (Kate)
There is a crucial relaSonship between accountability and preservaSon (Hjalmar)
Terms of service have changed. We are now renSng and leasing, not owning in perpetuity. (Chris)
LC can demand copyright deposit. It has chosen not to. (Cliff)
We need to put archiving on the same fooSng as security, internaSonalizaSon (Ben)
He who controls the past controls the future (Orwell via Evan)
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What can we do?
Assemble news hackers and lib/archive hackers (Hacks and Hackers meets Code4Lib)
Create and test business models for preserving news
CollecBng social media as primary source material
Coordinate with associaBons serving each stakeholder community
Create a registry of digital news preservaBon
Produce more plugins for preservaBon for major plalorms
Produce advocacy pieces designed for specific audiences
Forward working models
Talk to your local paper and report back.
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ReflecBons from the event
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The UCLA Broadcast NewsScape • >306,000 hours of TV news archived digitally • Recorded 2005-present, ca. 100 shows/day • 14 countries, 11 languages • 46 networks (20 non-US), 394,000 shows • Searchable by ~3.75 billion words of captions, on-screen
text, official transcripts.
Twitter collections at the UCLA Library • Collected by Digital Library with Social Feed Manager
– or – • Collected by faculty with various tools and given to us later • Examples: 785,000 tweets from Arab Spring movements
(collected by faculty) • Millions of tweets about various global disasters (Library)
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Twitter/TV news linking experiment
• Apply DBpedia Spotlight Named Entity Recognition (NER) software to TV and Twitter collections on second GOP presidential primary debate on 9/16/2015 • Twitter: 800,000 tweets • TV: CNN coverage of debate • Minute granularity • Persons, Organizations, Places
Results: • Linked entities with URIs to DBpedia resources • Visualization of correlations between entities
in collaboraBon with MarBn Klein, UCLA Library
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Twitter/TV News debate coverage: Persons hjp://sologlo.library.ucla.edu/NER/twijer/gop_persons.html
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Matching Twitter term profiles to news programs
hjp://sologlo.library.ucla.edu/NER/tv/
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Student PerspecBve; Student Involvement; Student Power!
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How are we doing to date?
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Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.com 32