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Occupy Collecting at NYU

Explore the archive of labor and the left at NYU's Tamiment Library, featuring print materials, ephemera, media, and born-digital content. Engage with the web archiving of political sites related to Occupy Wall St. through a singular archival collection using EAD. Learn about transformative collecting practices and access resources like YouTube, web content, meeting notes, oral histories, and ephemera. Utilize tools like the DownloadHelper plugin for Firefox, Zoom-H2n audio capture hardware, and engage in bi-weekly digital file transfers for efficient organization. Join the OWS Archives Working Group to contribute oral histories and other materials, and stay updated with formal decisions, actions, and finances through the OWS Minutes Working Group. Discover the web archiving initiative focusing on ~40 sites, with a collection emphasis on NYC and national content, while also exploring various ephemera materials like paper and posters from the OWS Media Working Group.

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Occupy Collecting at NYU

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  1. Occupy Collecting at NYU David Millman New York University, Libraries & ITS dsm@nyu.edu April, 2012

  2. OWS Collecting • Tamiment special collections library • archive of labor and the left • collections of print, ephemera, media, born digital • web archiving of political sites • Occupy Wall St. collecting • single archival Tamiment collection, EAD • several sources cni spring 2012 --

  3. OWS Content • YouTube • Web • Meeting notes • Ephemera • Oral/video history • Google, Facebook groups cni spring 2012 --

  4. Collecting -- YouTube • YouTube: 34,000 hits for “ows” • plug-in for FireFox (downloadhelper.net) • currently ca. 250 items, policy: large events • Fair Use: 2012 ARL Code of Best Practices • “transformative” collecting with context cni spring 2012 --

  5. Collecting – Think Tank • Tamiment special collections library • archive of labor and the left • collections of print, ephemera, media, born digital • web archiving of political sites • Occupy Wall St. collecting • single archival Tamiment collection, EAD • several sources cni spring 2012 --

  6. Collecting – Think Tank • Blue sky, strategy • Daily, 2 hours • Audio capture hardware provided by NYU library (Zoom-H2n) • Bi-weekly digital file transfers cni spring 2012 --

  7. Collecting – Think Tank cni spring 2012 --

  8. Collecting – Think Tank cni spring 2012 --

  9. Collecting – Think Tank cni spring 2012 --

  10. Collecting – Think Tank cni spring 2012 --

  11. Collecting – Think Tank cni spring 2012 --

  12. OWS Archives Working Group • Oral histories w/formal releases • Other materials: Independent ownership? cni spring 2012 --

  13. OWS Minutes Working Group • Documents formal decisions • Actions • Finances • Via web archive cni spring 2012 --

  14. Web Archiving • ~40 sites • Collection focus is NYC and national, not other localities cni spring 2012 --

  15. Also . . . • Ephemera • paper, posters • Some: OWS Media Working Group • Not yet: Google groups, Facebook cni spring 2012 --

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