Abstract
The collection is comprised of captured websites and Twitter data related to the mass shooting that occured at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 1, 2017. Captured websites are primarily comprised of articles and news stories from local, national, and international news media outlets. Websites were captured periodically from 2017 to 2018. The collection also includes Twitter data associated with the October 1 shooting that were captured via concurrent queries to the Twitter API for all Tweets containing the term “vegas” occuring September 29, 2017 to October 7, 2017. Also included are files containing tutorials for how to curate and analyze Twitter data which reference the 1 October Twitter dataset for illustrative purposes.
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Scope and Contents Note
The collection is comprised of captured websites and Twitter data related to the mass shooting that occured at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 1, 2017. Captured websites are primarily comprised of articles and news stories from local, national, and international news media outlets. Websites were captured periodically from 2017 to 2018. The collection includes Twitter data associated with the October 1 shooting that were captured via concurrent queries to the Twitter API for all Tweets containing the term “vegas” occuring September 29, 2017 to October 7, 2017. Also included are files containing tutorials for how to curate and analyze Twitter data which reference the 1 October Twitter dataset for illustrative purposes.
Access Note
Collection is open for research. Arrangements must be made in advance to access digital files; please contact Special Collections and Archives for additional information.
Publication Rights
Materials in this collection may be protected by copyrights and other rights. See Reproductions and Use on the UNLV Special Collections and Archives website for more information about reproductions and permissions to publish.
In adherence to Twitter’s Terms of Service, the full Twitter dataset in Series II is only accessible onsite at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into three series:
I. Archived websites, 2017-2018;
II. Twitter datasets, 2017;
III. Twitter data collection tutorial series, 2018.
Biographical / Historical Note
On October 1, 2017, a gunman opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on Las Vegas Boulevard onto 22,000 people in attendance at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas, Nevada. 58 individuals were killed, and over 800 people injured. The gunman, Stephen Paddock, died by suicide.
Source:
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, "LVMPD Preliminary Investigative Report: 1 October/Mass Casualty Shooting" Last modified January 18, 2018. https://wayback.archive-it.org/9521/*/https://www.lvmpd.com/en-us/Documents/1_October_FIT_Report_01-18-2018_Footnoted.pdf
Preferred Citation
Web Archive on the October 1, 2017 Shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada, 2017-2018. MS-00866. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. https://n2t.net/ark:/62930/f1207c
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Acquisition Note
The Twitter data was collected by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Libraries in 2017 using twarc; the archived websites were collected by UNLV Libraries in 2017 and 2018. Twitter data tutorial files were archived by UNLV Libraries in 2023; acession numbers 2017-128, 2017-145, and 2023-028.
Processing Note
The content in this collection was identified using two methods: Twitter datasets were captured in 2017 by Thomas Padilla who used used twarc to search for and capture all Tweets containing the term “vegas” occurring between September 29 to October 7, 2017 before 5:00 PM PT.
UNLV Libraries Special Collections and Archives staff selected websites to archive based on a list of frequently shared links represented from the Twitter dataset. Archived websites were captured, preserved, and managed using Archive-It, a web archiving subscription service. Archived website captures were managed periodically by Tammi Kim from 2017 to 2018 and the descriptions added to the finding aid in ArchivesSpace. Twitter tutorial PDF files were downloaded in 2023 and the descriptions were added to the finding aid.