Talk by Beatrice Cannelli

1. Reporting from a Short-Term
Network Stay at the BnF and INA
Beatrice Cannelli
LAHP funded PhD student at SAS
London | 13 June 2022

2. Research context
London | 13 June 2022
PhD research titled “Archiving Social Media: A Comparative
Study of the Practices, Obstacles, and Opportunities Related
to the Development of Social Media Archives”

3. • comparative study of international cultural heritage
institutions
• analysing and comparing the direct experience of web
archivists and curators
• Identify best practice
London | 13 June 2022
Research context

4. Bibliothèque national de France (BnF)
and
Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA)
19-22 April 2022
WARCnet Short-term network stay
London | 13 June 2022

5. Bibliothèque
François Mitterand
WARCnet Short-term network stay: BnF
London | 13 June 2022

6. • Introduction to ‘Archives de l’Internet’ and the digital
legal deposit in France
• overview of the selection and collection processes
• the tools used for the collection of web content
• Issues faced when archiving social media
London | 13 June 2022
WARCnet Short-term network stay: BnF

7. • Twitter (multiple times a day)
• Instagram (2-3 times per
year)
• YouTube(2-3 times per year)
• TikTok (elections 2022)
 Annual Broad crawl and
Emergency collections
London | 13 June 2022
WARCnet Short-term network stay: BnF

8. • Access to the Web Archive
(on-site at BnF and other
libraries)
• Support to researchers
London | 13 June 2022
WARCnet Short-term network stay: BnF

9. WARCnet Short-term network stay: INA
Bibliothèque
François
Mitterand
Bry-sur-Marne
London | 13 June 2022

10. • 16,069 websites
• Twitter: 15.000 Accounts
and 2,500 hashtags
• YouTube: 9.000 French
accounts and authors
London | 13 June 2022
WARCnet Short-term network stay: INA

11. London | 13 June 2022
WARCnet Short-term network stay: INA

12. WebMédia – self-developed
browser that allows users to
browse their web and social
media collection
London | 13 June 2022
WARCnet Short-term network stay: INA

13. Social TV
London | 13 June 2022
WARCnet Short-term network stay: INA

14. Bry-sur-Marne
• Issues related to the
harvesting of Twitter
• WebMédia interface
and new filtering tool
London | 13 June 2022
WARCnet Short-term network stay: INA

15. WARCnet Short-term network stay
Main themes and observations
• Importance of building collaborations between archiving
institutions and researchers
• Ever-changing nature of social media (e.g. new features,
new limitations)
• The hard task of establishing a direct communication with
social platforms and having access to data with no limits
(especially when digital legal deposit legislation is
concerned)
London | 13 June 2022

16. Value of the visit
• Opportunity to talk in-person to web archivists and
professionals dealing first-hand with issues related to social
media archiving
• Discussions and reflections about selection, value of social
media, relationship with social platforms and researchers
London | 13 June 2022
WARCnet Short-term network stay

17. Thank you!
London | 13 June 2022