Smithsonian Institution Archives

Website Records, 2014

Summary

(Electronic Resource)

"The Endangered Song" website, crawled April 22, 2014

Collection ID:: SIA.FA14-232
Creators:: National Zoological Park
Dates:: 2014
Languages:: English
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Repository:: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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This accession consists of "The Endangered Song" website as it existed on April 22, 2014, the day it launched. The Endangered Song Project featured a song by the band Portugal. The Man manufactured to go extinct unless it is reproduced. The song was released on 400 lathe-cut polycarbonate records which will degrade over time as the record is played. The 400 copies represent the fewer than 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild. Recipients of the records were asked to digitally reproduce the song and distribute it via social media to prevent its extinction. The website includes information about the project and instructions for reproducing and sharing the song.

In addition to the website, this accession includes a sample of social media content related to the project, including a copy of the song posted to SoundCloud (crawled April 29, 2014) and another to YouTube (crawled May 14, 2014) by recipients of the original records. Tweets using the hashtag "#EndangeredSong" were captured from the microblogging service Twitter using both a web crawl (April 28 and June 20, 2014) and an export tool (covering April 22-September 15, 2014) with slightly different results. Most tweets are from the general public.

Materials are in electronic format.

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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 14-232, National Zoological Park, Website Records

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Keyword Terms	Keyword Types
National Zoological Park (U.S.). Endangered Song Project	Corporate Name	Search Smithsonian Collections	Search ArchiveGrid
Twitter (Firm)	Corporate Name	Search Smithsonian Collections	Search ArchiveGrid
YouTube (Firm)	Corporate Name	Search Smithsonian Collections	Search ArchiveGrid
SoundCloud (Firm)	Corporate Name	Search Smithsonian Collections	Search ArchiveGrid
Portugal. The Man (Musical group)	Corporate Name	Search Smithsonian Collections	Search ArchiveGrid
The Endangered Song (Website)	Title	Search Smithsonian Collections	Search ArchiveGrid
Zoos	Topic	Search Smithsonian Collections	Search ArchiveGrid
Web sites	Topic	Search Smithsonian Collections	Search ArchiveGrid
Public relations	Topic	Search Smithsonian Collections	Search ArchiveGrid
Wildlife conservation	Topic	Search Smithsonian Collections	Search ArchiveGrid
Endangered species	Topic	Search Smithsonian Collections	Search ArchiveGrid
Sumatran tiger	Topic	Search Smithsonian Collections	Search ArchiveGrid
Social media	Topic	Search Smithsonian Collections	Search ArchiveGrid
Electronic records	Genre/Form	Search Smithsonian Collections	Search ArchiveGrid

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