Sources and Sites for Searching the Deep Web - Tools and Methods for Capturing Twitter Data During Natural Disasters

submitted by Joyce Fedeczko

awarenesswatch.com - April 21, 2012

The May 2012 V10N5 Awareness Watch Newsletter is a freely available 89 page .pdf document (553KB). This month’s featured report is on latest research and the associated report/article that has been placed on line through http://WhitePapers.us/. The title of the report is Sources and Sites for Searching the Deep Web. This comprehensive report comprises hundreds of reliable resources to assist you in identifying the best sources and sites available from the Internet for searching, browsing and discovering the Deep Web! The Awareness Watch Spotters cover many excellent and newly released annotated current awareness research sources and tools as well as the latest identified Internet happenings and resources including a number of neat and must-have tools! The Awareness Watch Article Review covers Tools and Methods for Capturing Twitter Data During Natural Disasters by Axel Bruns, Yuxian Eugene Liang.

http://www.awarenesswatch.com/

Tools and Methods for Capturing Twitter Data During Natural Disasters

Abstract

During the course of several natural disasters in recent years, Twitter has been found to play an important role as an additional medium for many–to–many crisis communication. Emergency services are successfully using Twitter to inform the public about current developments, and are increasingly also attempting to source first–hand situational information from Twitter feeds (such as relevant hashtags). The further study of the uses of Twitter during natural disasters relies on the development of flexible and reliable research infrastructure for tracking and analysing Twitter feeds at scale and in close to real time, however. This article outlines two approaches to the development of such infrastructure: one which builds on the readily available open source platform yourTwapperkeeper to provide a low–cost, simple, and basic solution; and, one which establishes a more powerful and flexible framework by drawing on highly scaleable, state–of–the–art technology.

http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3937/3193

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