Documenting DocNow

News from the Documenting the Now Project

Editors
Ed Summers

I’m a software developer at @umd_mith & study archives on/of the web at @iSchoolUMD

Bergis Jules

immigrant | archivist | doer of things

Alexandra DM

UX designer @documentnow , la based | nyc, dc transplant

Francis McFranciface

All opinions expressed in tweets are those of the person sitting next to you, if you're on a bus or walking it's the person behind you.

Zakiya Collier

Black // queer // memory worker.

Latest Posts

Looking Forwards

Recent changes to the Twitter API have seriously impacted DocNow’s tools. Here’s how we are moving forward.

Introducing DocNow 1.0

Documenting the Now announces the release of DocNow, an application for appraising, collecting, and gathering consent for Twitter content.

Counting Tweets

Today Twitter released a new API endpoint that allows you to fetch the number of tweets that match a query (like a hashtag) over time.

Documenting Events

From its early adopters in 2007 at SXSW to its use today by journalists around the world, Twitter has always been a social media platform…

twarc2

twarc has been redesigned from the ground up to work with the new Twitter v2 API and their Academic Research track. Many thanks for the…

Trump’s Tweets

TLDR: Trump’s tweets are gone from twitter.com but still exist spectrally in various states all over the web. After profiting off of their…

Disinformation Metadata

Ilya Kreymer recently asked a question over in Documenting the Now Slack about Twitter’s API data and whether it includes metadata for…

Instagram, Social Action and Archives

Dianne Weinthal is a recent graduate of the UCLA MLIS program, and has been working with a few members of her cohort on criteria to…

Archiving Protests, Protecting Activists

Join Documenting the Now in conversation with WITNESS, Blackivists, Texas After Violence Project, and Project STAND.

Introducing The Catalog v2

If you’ve been following our work for the past few years you may have occasionally seen us mention something called the Catalog. The…

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