BESOCIAL: Social media archiving tools comparison

This spreadsheet has the aim to provide an overview about tools and frameworks for social media archiving, as a variety of open source tools implemented in different programming languages and with different features exist. It is an adapted version of the "Comparison of web archiving software" by the Data Together Initiative which is licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://github.com/datatogether/research/tree/master/web_archiving. We kept the table structure with its clear column definitions and added new columns, these definitions can be found in the column definitions sheet; some columns do not apply or are not our main focus and thus we kept them empty for now. The observations sheet contains a description of each tool which also served as basis for several column values in the comparison sheet. Initially we focus on tools which are dedicated social media harvesting tools. Please note that general web archiving tools such as listed in the table of the Data Together initiative may be used to harvest social media data too. However, these tools might require a specific setup to cope with the peculiarities of social media data, hence we initially did not include these tools. Contributions and feedback are welcome and we also envision to contribute results back to the Data Together initiative. This spreadsheet is part of work package 1 of the BeSocial project, the conducted research has been funded by BELSPO, the Belgian Science Policy office. Contact information: — For BeSocial in general: Fien Messens from KBR [e-mail] — For the tool comparison: Sven Lieber from Ghent University - IDLab [e-mail]本电子表格旨在梳理社交媒体归档工具与框架的整体概况——当前存在诸多基于不同编程语言开发、具备差异化功能的开源工具。 本表格改编自数据共享倡议（Data Together Initiative）发布的《网页归档软件对比》一文，该文采用CC BY 4.0许可协议，原文链接：https://github.com/datatogether/research/tree/master/web_archiving。 我们保留了原表格的结构与清晰的列定义，并新增了若干列，新增列的详细说明可参阅“列定义”工作表；部分列暂不适用或非本次研究的核心关注范畴，因此目前留空。 “观测表”工作表包含各工具的详细说明，该说明同时作为对比表中多个列取值的依据。 本次研究最初聚焦于专用社交媒体数据采集工具。需注意的是，数据共享倡议表格中列出的通用网页归档工具，同样可用于社交媒体数据采集。 但此类通用工具往往需要针对社交媒体数据的特性进行特定配置，因此本次研究初期未将其纳入范围。 我们欢迎各方贡献与反馈，并计划将研究成果回馈至数据共享倡议项目。 本电子表格属于BeSocial项目工作包1的组成部分，相关研究工作由比利时科学政策办公室（BELSPO）资助。 联系方式： — 关于BeSocial项目整体事宜：请联系比利时皇家图书馆（KBR）的Fien Messens，邮箱：[e-mail] — 关于工具对比相关事宜：请联系根特大学IDLab的Sven Lieber，邮箱：[e-mail]