Conversations between Twitter social media and historical archives: a digital curation study

• Autor(a) principal: Jorente, Maria José Vicentini
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Batista, Lucineia da Silva
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Informação & Informação
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/informacao/article/view/23466
• topic: Information Technology and Communication; Information Design; Digital Curation; Historical Archives; Twitter; Tecnología de la Información y Comunicación; Diseño de la Información; Curación Digital; Archivos Históricos; Twitter; Tecnologia da Informação e Comunicação; Design da Informação; Curadoria Digital; Arquivos Permanentes; Twitter

Introduction: Digital Curation, in post-custodial times, convergent to Information Design, propose curation strategies; among the steps to be performed, is the interaction. Twitter helps with this approach and communication, facilitates information sharing as well as enables the storytelling Curation. Objective: To present innovative Digital Curation initiatives in Twitter and its potential to share information preserved by Public Historical Archives. Methodology: We characterize it as a theoretical and exploratory research on the application of Twitter in the perspective of Digital Curation, interdisciplinary to Information Science. Ten public historical archives were analyzed, in which their convergence with Twitter was verified; and an investigation of two archives profiles to identify their contents was conducted. Finally, initiatives to narrate historical events are presented. Results: Twitter offers Archives the possibility to work on historical event narratives; simultaneously publish on the platform the basic documents of the narration and build a diverse digital collection of what is physically kept by the institution. Conclusions: Actions described in Digital Curation are the activities of postcustodial nature information professionals perform in Archives. We emphasize that the post-custodial term consists of a temporal category and we can add the concept of extended custody, which is not temporal, but of extension.