Collecting Quickly Online, MARAC Fall 2016

This Saturday, I had the pleasure of participating in a Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference Fall 2016 panel organized by Meg Hogan, Lead Archivist at the Rockefeller Archive Center, titled “Crowd Archiving: Working with the Public to Capture Event-Based Social Media Materials.” Together with Jessica Douglas, an archivist at the Maryland State Archives, and Ed Summers, University of Maryland, as facilitator, we discussed different ways and challenges of capturing and saving the digital conversations and records of contemporary events quickly before they disappear.

Below are my slides