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Titel
2014 US-Cuba Policy Change Twitter Archive
Datum(s)
- 2014-2015 (Vervaardig)
Omvang
21 Gigabytes
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The 2014 US-Cuba Policy Change Twitter archive collection contains a data set of tweets collected from the Twitter microblogging platform when President Barack Obama announced on December 17, 2014 that the United States would begin normalizing full diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba after more than half a century of minimal relations. President Obama's announcement included plans to re-establish the US embassy in Havana, allowing official visits of Cuban diplomats and officials to the United States, and increased official dialogue on public policy issues affecting both countries.
During the announcement, the Cuban Heritage Collection collected tweets relating to the hashtags #cuba, #cubapolicy, #cubalibre, #cubausa, #uscuba, and #cubanmiami between December 9, 2014 and January 28, 2015. The tweets collected before the December 17, 2014 announcement by Presidents Obama and Castro represent tweets gathered via the Twitter API seven days prior to the date of first accessing the Twitter stream via the API, a feature allowed by the API. The tweets collected by the Cuban Heritage Collection for this data archive do not represent an exhaustive or complete record of all tweets relating to the targeted hashtags due to restritions on tweet volume accessed via the Twitter API.
This data archive is available for download to the University of Miami community via the University of Miami scholarly repository. The data is presented in JSON structured text files. For information on accessing the archive, see the "Conditions governing access" section of this finding aid.
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The data is available as one downloadable zip file from the University of Miami Scholarly Repository.
Conditions of access and use elements
Voorwaarden voor raadpleging
This collection is currently closed for research. For more information, please contact chc@miami.edu.
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Voorwaarden voor reproductie
Preferred citation: 2014 US-Cuba Policy Change Twitter Archive, Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, Florida.
Languages of the material
- Engels
- Spaans
Scripts of the material
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This collection was acquired and collected by the University of Miami Libraries using the Python program, Twarc, developed by Ed Summers.
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Related archival materials
Selected websites have been archived by the University of Miami's Cuban Heritage Collection relating to the US-Cuba policy change announcements. They are accesible online: https://www.archive-it.org/collections/5161
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Other Information:
See also: University of Miami Libraries 2014 US-Cuba Policy research guide
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This collection was a collaboration between several University of Miami Libraries departments, including the Cuban Heritage Collection, Web and Emerging Technologies, and Digital Strategies. Project members include: Natalie Baur, Jaime Little, Andrew Darby, Sevika Singh, Sarah Shreeves, Lyn MacCorckle, Laura Capell, and Jason Cohen.
Finding aid created by Natalie Baur, 2015. Updated by Amanda Moreno, January 2019 and November 2020. Updated by Rebeca Gonzalez, May 2021. Updated by Juan A. Villanueva, April 2022.