Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

On March 23-24, 2018 I attended the National Forum on Ethics and Archiving the Web (EAW), hosted at the New Museum and organized by Rhizome and the members of the Documenting the Now project.  The nor'easter " Toby " frustrated the travel plans of many, including causing my friend Martin Klein to have to cancel completely and for me to not arrive at the New Museum until after the start of the second session at 2pm on Thursday.  Fortunately, all the sessions were recorded and I link to them below. Day 1 -- March 22, 2018 Session 1 ( recording ) began with a welcome, and then a keynote by Marisa Parham , entitled "The Internet of Affects: Haunting Down Data".  I did have the privilege of seeing her keynote at the last DocNow meeting in December , and looking at the tweets (" #eaw18 ") she addressed some of the same themes, including the issues of the process of archiving social media (e.g., tweets) and the resulting decontextualization, in

Digital Blackness in the Archive was such a beautiful event. Thank you. #BlackDigArchive pic.twitter.com/SpoWYWDOhL — DocumentingTheNow (@documentnow) December 15, 2017 From December 11-12, 2017, I attended the second Documenting the Now Symposium in St. Louis, MO.  The meeting presentations were recorded and are available along with an annotated agenda ; for further background about the Documenting the Now project and my involvement via the advisory board, I suggest my 2016 trip report , as well as DocNow activity on github , slack , and Twitter .  In addition, the meeting itself was extensively live-tweeted with #BlackDigArchive (see also the data set of Tweet ids collected by Bergis Jules ). kicking off @documentnow #BlackDigArchive at @fergusonlibrary ! Livestream: https://t.co/K2XbN2HJdi pic.twitter.com/mVEBXSALTm — bibliotekah (@tttkay) December 11, 2017 Awesome keynote by @amplify285 ! So glad she could be here. Just found out she’s also a @WUSTL alumna. #B