Todd Grappone
Associate University Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Information Technology
University of California, Los Angeles
Sharon E. Farb
Associate University Librarian, Collection Management and Scholarly Communication
University of California, Los Angeles
Ali Jamshidi
Curator for International Digital Ephemera
University of California, Los Angeles
By working with activists and technologists in the Iranian Green Movement the University of California, Los Angeles has developed a significant collection of software packages, logs, and applications that effectively document the technological history of this movement. Along with the technology, a substantial collection of videos, photographs, and posters has also been gathered. The collection highlight consists of thousands of videos gathered during the protests. These videos were downloaded more than three million times from in country. These videos combined with the images, Web logs, and other materials, are historically significant as they are part of the first ever “digital revolution” which preceded the Arab Spring. This presentation will include discussion of the collection, curation and preservation of this content from libraries’ and activists’ perspectives, as well as technological issues.