Hi Alwyn,

somewhat related is the Nordic research project Collecting Social Photography, that runs 2017-2020. We are looking into recommendations for collecting social digital photography, the photography shared through social media.

In terms of outreach, to appeal for content, we have found that everyday content needs long term outreach, and preferably close collaboration with communities in order to engage audiences to participate. When it comes to recurring events, or sudden (sometimes traumatic) events, it is much easier to engage instantly through social media with f.ex. sponsored posts. The strategic outreach is crucial, much similar to any communicative campaign.

In terms of building tools for hoovering up videos, our experience is that a platform for people to use (a web app/website) is necessary. We can't just harvest content, because of copyright issues, and because building tools connecting to social media like Facebook and Instagram is not that easy as they change the APIS:s etc all the time. Though we are looking into possibly collecting through chatbots on Facebook.

The tool needless to say has to be really easy to use and adaptable to different collecting initiatives and topics. We have used two different tools that have opened up for collecting images and video around various topics. Now we are building a prototype, a third improved version, that will be launched in January. This will be shared on Github for anyone to use.

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This is a paper we presented at Museums and the Web 2018: https://mw18.mwconf.org/paper/collecting-the-ephemeral-social-media-photograph-for-the-future-why-museums-and-archives-need-embrace-new-work-practices-for-photography-collections/

And our project website is here: http://collectingsocialphoto.nordiskamuseet.se

Kind regards

Kajsa Hartig

Nordiska museet / Nordic Museum

Stockholm, Sweden

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Hello MCG list, happy Monday,

Just wondering if anyone has had experience of using social media to appeal for self-made videos discussing a specific topic? We’re looking into doing some “crowd-sourced collecting”, as it were, and I’d love to know what pitfalls to watch out for.

Would really appreciate knowing what technical solutions people think are most appropriate for hoovering up videos from web users- a form for people to submit on a web page, or something more complex to download the videos direct from social channels?

All the best,

Alwyn Collinson

Alwyn Collinson
Digital Editor

020 7814 5601
museumoflondon.org.uk

Museum of London, 150 London Wall, London, EC2Y 5HN

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