webarchiving

Tweets to @realdonaldtrump; How many fucks are there to give?

I’ve been collecting tweets to @realDonaldTrump since June 2017. In my most recent time pulling together, and deduping the dataset I asked myself, “I wonder how many occurrences of ‘fuck’ are in the dataset.” Or, how many fucks are there to give? Well… The data is updated by running a query on the Standard Search API every five days. $ twarc search 'to:realdonaldtrump' --log donald_search_$DATE.log > donald_search_$DATE.jsonl Which yields something like this every five days.

Thumbnails in Warclight

One feature of Blacklight that I’ve always wanted to setup in Warclight is displaying thumbnails in the results display. Getting this setup is a bit tricky. But, since Warclight is standardizing metadata on webarchive-discovery’s Solr schema.xml, we avail ourselves to a number of fields available for use for a potential implementation. The url field is the obvious choice, but the problem is that Blacklight out of the box will try and display a thumbnail for every url field value you give to config.

Twitter Wordcloud Pipeline

At this past week’s Archives Unleashed dataton, I jokingly created some wordclouds of my Co-PI’s timelines. Finished my most likely bigly winning #hackarchives project: A Word Cloud of @lintool's timeline!https://t.co/eK2KPGjaGo — nick ruest (@ruebot) April 27, 2018 Or, @ianmilligan1 #HackArchiveshttps://t.co/qMxiet0osl — nick ruest (@ruebot) April 27, 2018 Mat Kelly asked about the process this morning, so here is a little how-to of the pipeline: Requirements: twarc jq wordcloud_cli.

The world is a beautiful and terrible place

This is the text for my presention at the “National Forum on Ethics and Archiving the Web”. I had the honour of being on an Archiving Trauma panel with some great people. Michael Connor, Chido Muchemwa, Coral Salomón, Tonia Sutherland, and Lauren Work, thank you for sharing your stories! The world is a beautiful and terrible place. Twitter can be beautiful. Twitter is fucking awful. So, capturing traumatic events on Twitter.