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   RE: Research data + social media question
 From: Jennifer Huck
 To: ACRL DSS Numeric and Geospatial Data Services Discussion Group
 Posted: Nov 19, 2021 10:23 AM
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Hi Cecelia,

You might want to check out DocNow and their Hydrator https://www.docnow.io/.  (Look under tools for Hydrator.)  You are correct – you can't distribute full tweets, but you can collect tweet IDs, and using the Hydrator tool, "rehydrate" the tweet IDs to retrieve the content in the future.  That's all I know about it ��

Best,

Jenn

 

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Jennifer Huck

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Acting Associate Director, Research Data Services

University of Virginia Library

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Original Message:
Sent: 11/18/2021 3:16:00 PM
From: Cecilia Smith
Subject: Research data + social media question

Hi all,

I'm seeking the collective wisdom of the Data Services Discussion Group: A student would like to  deposit a small dataset of public responses (interviews, reviews, tweets, etc.) to films in our IR. The dataset contains variables like the names of films reviewed, the general sentiment expressed (positive/negative/mixed), URL, and platform the review was retrieved from. My reading of the Terms of Service for many of the platforms (Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, YouTube, etc.) is that data collection and sharing from their sites would go against these terms. I wonder if this is too restrictive an interpretation?

Can anyone share resources for collecting and disseminating social media data, or how you have addressed them in the past?

Thank you,
Cecilia

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Cecilia Smith
Director of Digital Scholarship
University of Chicago
She/Her/Hers
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