How do they do it?
Documenting the Now provides 5 open-source tools to help usrsr meet the goals of a project.
Hydrater is a desktop application for turning Tweet ID datasets back into tweet data to use in your research.
Doc Now is used for appraising, collecting, and gathering consent for Twitter content.
Twarc command-line utility and Python library that collects tweet data from Twitter’s official API.
“Social Humans” is a label system for social media content, the labels that they use for data are then put into the Doc Now application.
Catalog is an archive for tweet identifier collections that is run by the community.
Hydrator
When it comes to data analysis, the Hydrator tool is extremely useful, especially when obtaining information from Twitter. When raw data is extracted from Twitter, it frequently looks like a disorganized collection of dates and characters. But the Hydrator tool acts to turn this unprocessed data back into understandable, tweets. This change is needed to make sure that researchers and analysts can comprehend and evaluate the material more easily, making the data much more accessible and valuable for further study to be done.
With this, you can embed it onto a page and you can interact with it the same way you do a tweet. It allows social media data to stay social and people who visit the site can do it on the site itself.
Documenting the Nows Tools meets the Digital Humanities best practices by providing a multitude of Tools that allow users to take initiative in their research. Documenting the Now effectively collects and preserves data while connecting with the community, all while following upholding the ethical standards.