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CAROLYN HANK DIGITAL CURATION PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTE
JANUARY 8, 2013
CHAPEL HILL, NC
BLOG PRESERVATION … some considerations
133 million blogs indexed by Technorati
between 2002 and 2008.
White & Winn, 2009
GENERAL BLOGGERS 2006-2008
MOTIVATION BEHIND STUDY …
1
People rely heavily on service
providers, often taking no
additional actions toward the
persistence of their user-
generated content.
Marshall, Bly & Brun-Cottan, 2006
GENERAL BLOGGERS 2006-2008
1
NEEDLE IN A
HAYSTACK population
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS (ACTIVE) 2009-2011
2
SAMPLING ISSUES…
population
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS (ACTIVE) 2009-2011
SAMPLING ISSUES…
CHAMELEON IN
A HAYSTACK
2
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS (ACTIVE) 2009-2011
MORE
SAMPLING
CONSIDERATIONS
?
Multiple instances
Multiple authors
Scholar blogger(?)
Scholarly blog(?)
Currency
Timing
2
%
preservation for public access
& use into the indefinite future
PRESERVATION
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS 2
PRESERVATION
0% 100%
Personal access/use
Indefinite future
Public access/use
Indefinite future
Personal access/use
Short-term future
Public access/use
Short-term future
16%
19%
76%
80%
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS 2
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS 2
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
RESPONSIBILITY CAPABILITY
Blogger
Co-Author(s)
Provider/Host/Network
Search Engine
Public Trust
PRESERVATION PREFERENCES
first line of
defense
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS 2
final line of
defense
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS 2
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
RESPONSIBILITY CAPABILITY
Blogger
Co-Author(s)
Provider/Host/Network
Search Engine
Public Trust
Nat'l Library
Nat'l Archive
Inst'l Library
Inst'l Archive
Inst'l IT Dept
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS 2
PRESERVATION PREFERENCES
%
Purposefully save entire blog via an
archiving service or independently
SAVING
Subscription
services
Export tools
Personal
back-ups
Document/text files
Via syndication
services
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS 2
examples:
BACKUPIFY
BLOGBACKUPR
BACKUPMYBLOG
INTERNET ARCHIVE
LOC’s LEGAL BLAWGS ARCHIVE
Subscription to web or blog archiving or back-up service
SERVICES
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS 2
%
SAVING
Purposefully save some
blog components
Export tools
Personal
back-ups
Document/text files
Via syndication
services
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS 2
BUT … RIGHTS & USE
Creative
Commons (n=13)
Copyright
Statement (n=34)
%
no rights or use statements
at blog or post level
2 SCHOLARS’ BLOGS
%
DISCLAIMERS
have an explicit or implicit
disclaimer-style statement
Own
opinion
Not
responsible
Advice
THOUGH 80% FEEL BLOG IS PART OF THEIR SCHOLARLY RECORD …
2 SCHOLARS’ BLOGS
%
DELETING
delete posts after publication
Duplicate
Post
“Post Regret”
Too sensitive or revealing
THOUGH 80% FEEL BLOG SHOULD BE PRESERVED …
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS 2
BLOG DELETION
%
have deleted a blog
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS 2
if? What
SADNESS
C’EST LA VIE
RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER
Devastated,
both emotionally and
professionally.
Pretty
bad.
Very
sad.
SADNESS
C’EST LA VIE
RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER
Mad as hell.
I’d do something
drastic [in response].
Pretty
peeved. Angry
& upset.
SADNESS
C’EST LA VIE
RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER
I don’t have to
do it anymore. I get half an
hour of my
life back.
SADNESS
C’EST LA VIE
RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER
Not welcomed
but not tragic …
I’d get over it.
Probably
have a drink &
forget about it.
Pour another cup
of coffee & get
back to work. Drop out …
until something else
comes along.
SADNESS
C’EST LA VIE
RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER
It would take an
extreme catastrophe.
How would
that happen?
SADNESS
C’EST LA VIE
RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER
PUBLICLY AVAILABLE = 570 (86%)
PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH = 544 (84%)
KNOWLEDGE OR PERSONAL BLOG = 498 (77%)
TIME-STAMPED POSTS = 496 (77%)
ACTIVELY PUBLISHED TO = 271 (42%)
AT LEAST 1 YEAR OLD = 231(36%)
IDENTIFIERS (RE: AUTHORSHIP) = 208 (32%)
BLOG ELIGIBILITY (644)
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS (ACTIVE) 2009-2011
2
WHAT ABOUT THOSE BLOGS THAT ARE
INACTIVE BUT STILL PUBLICLY
AVAILABLE …
As reported by Viegas (2005),
bloggers assume persistency of their
blogs unless deliberate action is
taken (by the blogger) to remove it.
left no message behind
on where they went or
if they will be back etc.
%
Available but
not actively
published to
in previous
3 months (n=156)
blog analysis
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS (ACTIVE) 2009-2011
2
SCHOLAR BLOGGERS (INACTIVE) 2011-PRESENT
Hank. C., & Lent, A.R. (2012). Dispatches from blog purgatory: Final messages from scholars’ inactive blogs. #Influence12: Symposium & workshop on measuring influence on social media. Halifax, Nova Scotia
HUMANITIES, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SCIENCES, PROF. & USEFUL ARTS
BLOG X N=1779
BLOG ANALYSIS n=909
no new posts > 3 months
3
2012-PRESENT 4
RESULTS COMING SOON …
SUMMER 2013
BIBLIOBLOGGERS (IN/ACTIVE) 2012-PRESENT
4
OCLC/ALISE Library & Information Science Research Grant Program
QUESTIONNAIRES
INTERVIEWS
BLOG ANALYSIS
CV ANALYSIS BLOGGER
BLOG BLOG X
Hank. C. (2011). Scholars and their blogs: Characteristics, preferences, and perceptions
impacting digital preservation (Doctoral dissertation). ProQuest Dissertations &
Theses database (UMI No. 3456270).
Hank. C., & Lent, A.R. (2012). Dispatches from blog purgatory: Final messages from
scholars’ inactive blogs. #Influence12: Symposium & workshop on measuring
influence on social media. Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Hank, C., Sheble, L., & Choemprayong, S. (2007). Informing blog appraisal through
bloggers’ perspectives on selection and preservation. Paper presented at the
Conference on Appraisal in the Digital World, Rome, Italy.
Marshall, C.C., Bly, S., & Brun-Cottan, F. (2006). The long term fate of our digital
belongings: Toward a service model for personal archives. Archiving 2006 Final
Program and Proceedings, 3 (pp. 25–30). Springfield, VA: Society for Imaging
Sciences and Technology.
Sheble, L., Choemprayong, S., & Hank. C. (2007). Preservation in context: Survey of
blogging behaviors. In Proceedings of the Third International Digital Curation
Conference. Edinburgh: Digital Curation Centre.
Viegas, F.B. (2007). Bloggers' expectations of privacy and accountability: An initial
survey. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(3). Retrieved from
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue3/viegas.html
White, D., & Winn, P. (2009). State of the blogosphere: 2008. Technorati. Retrieved from
http://technorati.com/blogging/feature/state-of-the-blogosphere-2008/
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THANK YOU
CAROLYN HANK Email: [email protected]
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