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Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Electronic records
Date:
2017
Descriptive Entry:
This accession consists of two pages from the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) website related to the 2017 total solar eclipse as well as tweets using the hashtag "#RoadTripToTotality." The web pages were crawled on August 18, 2017, three days before the eclipse on August 21. One page provides information about solar eclipses and safely viewing and photographing them. The other page provides details about eclipse-related events and activities at the museum. The hashtag "#RoadTripToTotality" was primarily used by the crew of "STEM in 30," a television show produced by NASM for middle school students, in their posts on Twitter. Twitter is a microblogging platform and its posts are known as "tweets." The crew documented their road trip to broadcast live from the path of totality. The hashtag was also used by others on Twitter to document their own experiences related to the eclipse. Tweets using this hashtag were exported into a spreadsheet between August 13 and September 4, 2017. The results from a search of Twitter on the hashtag were crawled on August 21, 2017. Materials are in electronic format.
Topic:
Web sites  Search this
Museums -- Public relations  Search this
Aeronautical museums  Search this
Astronautical museums  Search this
Special events  Search this
Solar eclipses  Search this
Museums -- Educational aspects  Search this
Blogs  Search this
Online social networks  Search this
Social media  Search this
Genre/Form:
Electronic records
Citation:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 18-037, National Air and Space Museum, Website Records
Identifier:
Accession 18-037
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Website Records
Archival Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-sia-fa18-037