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Initiative Title
Election 2020 Web Crawling
Initiative Details
Web crawls of 2020 local election websites and Facebook. These websites are very transitory and usually disappear shortly after an election. No one was collecting this information. Metadata was added to the collection and website URLs (seeds). This is a follow-on to a 2019 micro-grant. This effort helped add specialized content for future students and researchers in political science, history and other social sciences. Content also included candidate website from under represented communities in the Greater Lansing area - these are not regularly collected in the historical record.
Initiative Lead(s)
Lydia
Tang
Special Collections Archivist
Timeline
Completed