Stéphane BortzmeyerGuess where I am. https://netpreserve.org/ga2024/
Poster sessi:on at #WAC. I learn that there are two countries in Europe *without* a legal deposit of the Web. I let you guess their names.
Poster session at #WAC: I loved the "(most|least) cool club", a club of people managing Web crawlers and sharing (unfortunately with JIra and Confluence) regexps of things to exclude from the crawl (loop traps and things like that).
Now, panel at #WAC "Archiving Social Media In An Age of APIcalypse" (Twitter closed its API).
[Wondering how to archive the fediverse.]
Facebook closed its API long ago, pretending it was because of Cambridge Analytica (but the real reason was commecial), shutting down many research projects on social media.
Several speakers in the panel do not follow the title: they talk about what they did *before*, when API use was possible.
Anat Ben-David, on the contrary, explains what could be done in the future. APIs were not so good, after all (for instance, you are never sure of what they hide).
Jérôme Thièvre (INA) is the first to mention Bluesky (which apparently has a working API but little content).
TikTok has an API but its use requires that all research papers where it was used have to be pre-approved by TikTok!
Julien / Sphinx@Sphinx_Pouet Valérie Schafer reported during the Q&A that it is quite common in business studies: many companies require that before giving access to their archives.
@Sphinx_Pouet Of course, it is here more complicated. Unlike corporations' archives, the content was no created by TikTok.