Use of the National Library's Web and Twitter Collections for Research
presentation
posted on 2020-03-10, 03:48 authored by Lana AlsabbaghThe National Library of New Zealand has performed a “whole-of-domain” harvest since
2008, acquiring publicly available web content from the New Zealand .nz, .net, .org and
.com domains. The National Library’s Web Archiving team has also undertaken a number of
web harvests related to significant events in recent history such as the 2017 General
Election, including tweets, related data, and images. The Whole-of-Domain collection and
the Twitter harvests are both presently inaccessible to researchers. The Library’s goal is to
improve usage of this data by providing researchers with tools and services that would
enable computational access to this data.
In partnership with Library staff, the Digital Research Coordinator planned and carried out
interviews and a survey with a select group of scholars involved in digital humanities to help
the Library understand the tools and services researchers need to make full use of these
digital collections. This lightening talk will discuss the findings and ideas for further research.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)
Lana Alsabbagh is the Digital Research Coordinator at the National Library of New Zealand. She
is currently researching ways to facilitate stakeholder engagement with the Library
web archival collection.
