Yahoo Groups metadata uploaded to IA!
Dec. 4th, 2020 09:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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yahoogroupsReposted from my personal journal:
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It's finally up! Behold the product of my months-long labors: https://archive.org/details/Yahoo_Groups_Metadata
The spreadsheets include all 960,613 confirmed GMD groups, plus 150,394 other groups (many of which had been long-dead by the time we came across their names, referenced only in links within other groups).
At some point it may get moved into a specific collection of Yahoo Groups stuff, but at least it's uploaded now so everyone can browse the spreadsheets and see group descriptions, member numbers, creation dates, and much more. (And should you want to, you can identify from the spreadsheets which groups we have group photos for and go view those pictures by downloading the correct tar file and extracting the raw data within to see each file.)
If you know anyone who wants to use this for any sort of research or analysis, please point them to that link! I want it to be accessible to all.
Also a big thanks toonceamy, who ran a bunch of scripts on lists and spreadsheets to speed up my work (I went into more on her role in the post on metadata processing). The correct use of automation at the right points helped greatly.
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It's finally up! Behold the product of my months-long labors: https://archive.org/details/Yahoo_Groups_Metadata
The spreadsheets include all 960,613 confirmed GMD groups, plus 150,394 other groups (many of which had been long-dead by the time we came across their names, referenced only in links within other groups).
At some point it may get moved into a specific collection of Yahoo Groups stuff, but at least it's uploaded now so everyone can browse the spreadsheets and see group descriptions, member numbers, creation dates, and much more. (And should you want to, you can identify from the spreadsheets which groups we have group photos for and go view those pictures by downloading the correct tar file and extracting the raw data within to see each file.)
If you know anyone who wants to use this for any sort of research or analysis, please point them to that link! I want it to be accessible to all.
Also a big thanks to
onceamy, who ran a bunch of scripts on lists and spreadsheets to speed up my work (I went into more on her role in the post on metadata processing). The correct use of automation at the right points helped greatly.
