Collecting in a Crisis: Rapid Response Web and Social Media Archiving

The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) in collaboration with the National Archives,Ireland (NAI) will host an online webinar on rapid response web and social media archiving as part of their joint ongoing public lecture series on digital archiving.

Digital archivists have played an essential role on the front lines of the work to document the pandemic as it plays out online and their continuous collaborative efforts will ensure that records of the social, cultural and economic impact of this crisis will be preserved for future generations.

The two key seminar speakers are Nicola Bingham (Lead Curator for Web Archives at the British Library) and Valerie Love (Senior Digital Archivist at the Alexander Turnbull Library, a division of the National Library of New Zealand). The former will describe the work of the UK Web Archive in collecting websites that reflect the UK perspective of the COVID-19 pandemic while the latter will give an overview of the Library’s Digital Collecting and Legal Deposit teams’ efforts to collect and preserve public responses to the crisis across social media platforms.

The event will take place over Zoom Webinar. It will be recorded and live streamed to Facebook but audience members will not be visible in the recording.

Register for free here.