DocNow to store content from social media for generations

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The University of California, Riverside, Washington University in St. Louis, and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland are collaborators on the project called “Documenting the Now: Supporting Scholarly Use and Preservation of Social Media Content”

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A two year $ 517,000 grant from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will be funded in the above project.

The application will be used to archive the content from the social media that will be used in research.

Twitter is emerged as the most important communication channel from 2014 protests in Ferguson, through which information was disseminated.

The DocNow application will provide scholars with new ways of gathering and analyzing data from Twitter, which is a tremendous source of documentation on contemporary events,” said Chris Freeland, project co-principal investigator and associate university librarian at Washington University in St. Louis.

DocNow application will make social media data sets available for non-commercials, Scholarly research. The app will be significantly designed that will identify the value of content that is it valuable for current and future research.

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