Local Memory Project
Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.
The Local Memory Project provides tools to build collections (#localmemory) of stories for local events from local sources. We currently have public dataset of:
US Non-US 5,992 Newspapers 6,638 Newspapers 1,061 TV stations 183 Countries 2,539 Radio stations 3,151 Cities
and two tools to help collection building:
The national (non-local) news media has different priorities than the local news media. If one seeks to build a collection of stories about local events, the national news media may be insufficient, with the exception of local news which "bubbles" up to the national news media. If we rely exclusively on national media, or build collections exclusively on their reports, we could be late to the important milestones which precipitate major local events, thus, run the risk of losing important stories due to link rot and content drift.
Consequently, it is important to consult local sources affected by local events.
The Local Memory Project provides tools to build collections (#localmemory) of stories for local events from local sources:
Local Memory Project - Chrome Extension helps you discovers, collect, share and archive collections of local stories from local sources.
Local Memory Project - Geo returns a collection of newspapers and/or tv and/or radio stations in order of proximity to a zip code.
Saving is the first step to make a collection persist after it is built. However, archiving ensures that the links referenced in a collection persist even if the content is moved or deleted. Our application currently integrates archiving via Archive.is, but we plan to expand the archiving capability to include other public web archives.
Save locally: this serves as a way to keep a collection private. Saving can be done by clicking "Download collection" in the Generic settings section of the extension settings. A collection can be saved in json or plaintext format. The json format permits the collection to be reloaded through "upload a saved collection" in the Generic settings section of the extension settings. The plaintext format does not permit reloading into the extension, but contains all the links which make up the collection. Save remotely: in order to be able to share the collection you built locally with the world, you need to save remotely by clicking the "Save remotely" button on the frontpage of the application. This leads to a dialog requesting a mandatory unique collection author name (if one doesn't exist) and an optional collection name (Figure 10). After supplying the inputs the application saves the collection remotely and the user is presented with a link to the collection (Figure 11).
Extract tweets from Twitter: In order extract tweets from Twitter timeline, search or threaded conversations, copy the URI from the search bar and paste into the Tweet URL textbox (Figure 16), and press the Extract tweets button
