Twitter archive from ascilite2014 Rhetoric and Reality, held in Dunedin 23-26th November 2014 #ascilite2014

ascilite2014 Rhetoric and Reality was held at Otago Polytechnic and the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 23-26th November 2014.

This file contains a data set of 5958 tweets (5760 unique tweets) tagged with #ascilite14 OR #ascilite2014 OR @ascilite14 (case not sensitive) that were published on Twitter between 15 October 2014 00:01:47 and 26 November 2014 19:56:28 GMT.

This file was created and shared by Sarah Gallagher @sarahlibrarina (University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand) with a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY) to encourage research in scholarly communication and for educational purposes.

The Tweets contained in this file were collected using Martin Hawksey’s [@mhawksey] TAGS 6.0 http://tags.hawksey.info/

An automatic deduplication has been performed but data may require further refining. Retweets have been placed in a separate worksheet titled RTs. The contents of each Tweet are responsibility of the original authors. This data set has been shared “as is”, for educational and research purposes.

As noted by Priego (2014) “both research and experience show that the Twitter search API isn't 100% reliable. Large tweet volumes affect the search collection process. The API might "over-represent the more central users", not offering "an accurate picture of peripheral activity" (González-Bailón, Sandra, et al. 2012).” Therefore there is no guarantee that this file all Tweets tagged with (#ascilite14 OR #ascilite2014 OR @ascilite14) during the indicated period. This dataset is shared to encourage open research into scholarly activity on Twitter.

If you use or refer to this data in any way please cite using the prefered citation above.

Contact: @sarahlibrarina

References:

Priego, Ernesto (2014): A #HEFCEmetrics Twitter Archive. figshare. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1196029.
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