1 Company Proprietary and Confidential Copyright Info Goes Here Just Like This Archiving Facebook Lizzie McCown INFO 756 Spring 2011

2 Company Proprietary and Confidential Copyright Info Goes Here Just Like This Facebook Launched in early 2004 Currently has over 500 million active users Founder Mark Zuckerberg named 2010 Time Magazine Person of the Year “medium for our personal lives”

3 Company Proprietary and Confidential Copyright Info Goes Here Just Like This Why Archive Facebook? Information about today’s cultural norms for use by tomorrow’s historians Personal insight about historically significant events Preservation of complete institutional records Accountability and documentation for businesses and government entities

4 Company Proprietary and Confidential Copyright Info Goes Here Just Like This Who Should Archive Facebook? Individuals Third-party institutions Government Organizations and businesses

5 Company Proprietary and Confidential Copyright Info Goes Here Just Like This Issues for Third Parties Privacy settings Limitations on harvesting and crawlers Privacy and copyright concerns

6 Company Proprietary and Confidential Copyright Info Goes Here Just Like This Options for Individuals Archiving bits Archiving content Archiving experience Various tools now available

7 Company Proprietary and Confidential Copyright Info Goes Here Just Like This Archive Facebook Extension

8 Company Proprietary and Confidential Copyright Info Goes Here Just Like This Facebook Download Option

9 Company Proprietary and Confidential Copyright Info Goes Here Just Like This Facebook and the US Government Much social media content classified as government records by NARA Federal agencies having trouble with preservation –Large amounts of data are not well organized –Not compatible when moved between systems –Often incompatible with NARA standards

10 Company Proprietary and Confidential Copyright Info Goes Here Just Like This Creating Best Practices for Preservation of Facebook What content is most important to preserve Can we ensure provenance What format should be used

11 Company Proprietary and Confidential Copyright Info Goes Here Just Like This Creation of a Task Force Publicize the need for public figures to preserve their social media Recruit a sampling of population to preserve their social media Figure out who has the right to archive content Advocate for Facebook to open up to archival crawlers Determine storage approach for data