Social Media Information

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Objectives

When social media burst on the scene, many agecies and emergency response agencies scrambled to develop a presence.

The purpose of this module is to explore some of the social media missteps that occurred early in this process.

The Constitution of the United States charged the government with promoting the scineces and useful arts.

One way that this was done at the national level was to create resources that would identify, catalog, classify and retain informational resources and make those resources available to the citizens. The core facilities for achieving this were The Librato of Congress (LOC) www.loc.gov and

The Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) www.oclc.org.

Every librarian in the world knows who these two organizations are.

Most federal agencies have similar resources. For example:

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) www,nlm.gov
Federal depository libraries www.fdlp.gov
National Agricultural Library (NAL) www.nal.usda.gov
National Library of Education (NLE) ies.ed.gov
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) www.archives.gov
National Library Service (NLS) for the Blind and Print Disabled www.loc.gov/nls/thatallmayread
National Transportation Library (NTL) ntl.bts.gov/ntl"
Presidential libraries www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/visit
Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) www.osti.gov

Curation

Researchers and other libraries use the classification systems developed by these libraries to catalog bibliographic entries

BT - Broader Term
NT - Narrower Term
RT - Related Term

Authoritative sources provide keywords or terms for each bibliographic entry.
The keywords are used as a basis for search.

Social Media

Social Media use an automated mechanizm for describing each bibliographic entry : Indexing.

Specialized programs valled spiders traverse the internet capturing pages and create a database of the terms found and their frequency.

The frequencies are used to assign an importance to each entity with respect to the term.

See for example: Google www.google.com

Related ideas:

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