Smithsonian Institution Archives

Website Records, 2017

Summary

Collection ID:
SIA.FA18-037
Creators:
National Air and Space Museum
Dates:
2017
Languages:
English
Physical Description:
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

Descriptive Entry

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.

Administration

Author
Finding aid prepared by Smithsonian Institution Archives

Using the Collection

Prefered Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 18-037, National Air and Space Museum, Website Records

More Information

Notes

SI Records


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Twitter (Firm) Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
STEM in 30 (Television program) Title Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Web sites Topic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Museums -- Public relations Topic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Aeronautical museums Topic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Astronautical museums Topic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Special events Topic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Solar eclipses Topic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Museums -- Educational aspects Topic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Blogs Topic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Online social networks Topic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Social media Topic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Electronic records Genre/Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

Smithsonian Institution Archives
Washington, D.C.
Contact us at osiaref@si.edu