This lecture was a reflection on scholarly communications with Twitter as part of the Digital Collections 2016 Summer Institute in Lausanne/Zurich, Switzerland from September 4-14, 2016. The institute was supported by The Getty Foundation.

1. Twitter #digitalcollections2016
a meta-collection
@nealstimler

2. Neal Stimler
Third-Party Partnerships Producer
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City, USA
Creative strategist working on
content management, data and
digital asset policies and third party
partnerships.
Twitter: @nealstimler
Instagram: @nealstimler
LinkedIn: in/nealstimler
Website: www.nealstimler.com
Nathan Johnson. Portrait of
Neal Stimler. October, 2013.

3. Neal Stimler
Select Social Media Expertise
#ItweetMuseums
Collaborator-Participant
September 2013 - Present
Museum Computer Network
Social Media Curator
September 2010 – January 2013
Museums and The Web
Social Media Curator
September 2012 – May 2014
THATCamp MCN
Organizer-Participant
November 9, 2011
Nathan Johnson. Portrait of
Neal Stimler. October, 2013.

4. Quan-Hasse, Anabel, Kim Martin and Lori McCay-Peet. "Networks of digital humanities scholars: The
informational and social uses and gratifications of Twitter." Big Data and Society. DOI:
10.1177/2053951715589417. June 2015. http://bds.sagepub.com/content/2/1/2053951715589417
“We find that Twitter follow relationships reflect common academic interests and are
closely tied to scholars’ pre-existing social ties and conference or event
co-attendance.”
“Communication is an integral part of scholarly practice. Indeed much work in the
sociology of science has stressed that disciplines only flourish if an invisible college
is established to facilitate communication and exchange among its members.”
“Twitter for many DH scholars is a conversation, one that takes place through a
single tweet or a series of interactive tweets, and in relation to other discourses
online and offline, both inside and outside their disciplines. Conversations, retweets
and follows on Twitter all help DH scholars to feel they are part of the community,
which keeps its strength through digital media.”

5. Sample, Mark. "The digital humanities is not about building, it's about sharing." Blog. samplereality. May 5, 2011.
http://www.samplereality.com/2011/05/25/the-digital-humanities-is-not-about-building-its-about-sharing/
“The promise of the digital is not in the way it allows us to ask new questions
because of digital tools or because of new methodologies made possible by those
tools. The promise is in the way the digital reshapes the representation,
sharing, and discussion of knowledge.”
“And we should no longer be content to make our work public achingly slowly along
ingrained routes, authors and readers alike delayed by innumerable gateways
limiting knowledge production and sharing.”
“The ‘builders’ will build and the ‘thinkers’ will think, but all of us, no matter
where we fall on this false divide, we all need to share. Because we can.”

6. Follow Sree Sreenivasan @sree, SOON Chief Digital Officer of New York City

7. TagSleuth Social Media Archive and Data Tool

8. Language of Tweets - ENGLISH 486 | DEUTSCH 143

9. Most Frequent Users Twitter - @mizzi_schnyder | @nealstimler | @digicoll2016

10. User Mentions Twitter - @nealstimler | @fkraeutli | @DomOldman | @mizzi_schnyder

11. Influencer Index Twitter - @museodelprado

12. Top Words Twitter - Digital Art History | Data

13. Volume Over Time Tweets - Most Active Sept. 5th- Sept. 7th, 2016

14. Data Export from Twitter - #digitalcollections2016 as of Sept. 12, 2016

15. Storify - Digital Collections 2016

16. Momentary Conclusion
The data, images and links on Twitter themselves form a collection. One
immediately accessible, a product of and shareable in our hybrid digital and
physical culture.
These assets are a meta-collection and perhaps point to a meta-narrative
about the Digital Collections 2016 Summer Institute.
This collection, like all collections, is incomplete. Discussions, experiences
and memories are not all captured and documented. Data may be missing.
It can be added to through the contribution of other voices now and in the
future. The humanistic process of digital art history is ongoing.

17. Vielen Dank!
Neal Stimler
Third-Party Partnerships Producer
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Twitter: @nealstimler
Instagram: @nealstimler
LinkedIn: in/nealstimler
Website: www.nealstimler.com