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Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives

Accession 18-037

National Air and Space Museum

Website Records, 2017
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
Creator: National Air and Space Museum
Title: Website Records
Dates: 2017
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Collection: Accession 18-037
Language of Materials: English
Summary:

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.

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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.

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

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Electronic Records

Solar eclipse information page on the National Air and Space Museum website, crawled August 18, 2017

Solar eclipse information page on the National Air and Space Museum website, crawled August 18, 2017
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Solar eclipse event page on the National Air and Space Museum website, crawled August 18, 2017

Solar eclipse event page on the National Air and Space Museum website, crawled August 18, 2017
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Tweets using "#RoadTripToTotality," exported to spreadsheet August 13-September 4, 2017

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Tweets using "#RoadTripToTotality," crawled search results, August 21, 2017

Tweets using "#RoadTripToTotality," crawled search results, August 21, 2017
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