DH09 Tweets: more visualizations
My friend @footnotesrising (Susan Garfinkel) was attending the Digital Humanities conference this past week; i followed the hash tag to attend what i saw called #DH140 (albeit i had very little attention to spare).
Today, i’m taking the day off from work, and i’ve had a chance to look at the closing tweets. Just like i did with JCDL, i note a number of folks, including @jcmeloni (Julie Meloni), @samplereality (Mark Sample) archiving the conference tweets. @sshreeves tweeted to @footnotesrising “I believe @Alan_Wolf did the twapperkepper #dh09” What is Twapperkeeper? A tool which “[a]llows you to archive and organize your tweets based upon hash tags.”
There was already one for JCDL and Iran.
@sgsinclair (Stéfan Sinclair) tweeted about a visualization tool called Voyeur populated with #dh09 tweets. I loaded in the JCDL09 tweets in the five XML documents for poking at. Caveat about both of these links: “Please note that this corpus may be removed after a couple of days of inactivity or may be invalidated by an update to Voyeur.”
I note someone else points to problems with the DH09 twapperkeeper: the start date is after the conference began. They refer to “Save Your Tweets from Computers and Writing 2009 – source/literacy.” It describes essentially the same method i used for JCDL, but limiting to one’s own tweets. “The reason this is necessary is that Twitter will only return 1500 results for a given search (like #cw09), and it will only return results that are less than roughly a week old. So that’s why we have to do this individually, and do it fast. After sometime on Thursday of this week, the Tweets from during the conference will rapidly begin to disappear from the searchable Tweet stream.”
I pulled down the fifteen pages of one hundred tweets each from Twitter using the dh09 hash tag and the earliest was 2009-06-23T20:57:09Z — mid day Tuesday. That’s many more tweets than the JCDL crowd!
Presumaly, twapperkeeper will poll twitter periodically and keep all the tweets so it will be complete from that time forward.
Digitial Humanities 2011 is at Stanford. It’s a pity DH10 is in London, because i won’t be going to JCDL10 in Australia.
Finally DH09 live blogging (which look forward to reading): http://digilib.bu.edu/blogs/digilib/category/dh09/
June 26th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
thanks for pulling this together! as for london, why not go? it’s closer and less expensive than australia (and a good excuse to get to europe).
June 26th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Travel funds are tight next fiscal year! I’ll probably look for conferences close to the SF Bay area or at least carve out the time to virtually attend by reading proceedings and following live bloggers.
I was talking to someone who arranges conferences recently and between economic stresses and pandemic concerns, they’re shipping conference proceedings for folks who’d like to attend but can’t travel.