The websites archived in this series were selected by UNLV Special Collections and Archives staff to represent public reaction to the shooting that occured at the Route 91 Harvest Festival on October 1, 2017. The majority of the links in this series are comprised of local and national news coverage of the incident.
Archival Collection
Web Archive on the October 1, 2017 Shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada
The websites archived in this series represent a sampling of the most frequently shared links on Twitter using the keyword “vegas” between September 29 and October 7, 2017. The series also includes Tweets from individual and news media accounts that were publicly available. Links to web content were selected from a list generated from twarc, a command line tool and Python library for archiving Twitter JSON data. Websites primarily represent mainstream and alternative news media sites, both domestic and foreign.
Archival Collection
Web Archive on the October 1, 2017 Shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada
This dataset contains the identifiers for the Tweets in the full dataset in accordance with Twitter’s Terms of Service for public distribution. All JSON files in the dataset are sorted chronologically.
Archival Collection
Web Archive on the October 1, 2017 Shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada
This is comprised of all the Tweets captured and the images that were associated with the collected Tweets. The Tweets are expressed in JSON and have been separated into zip files representing 24-hour intervals.
Archival Collection
Web Archive on the October 1, 2017 Shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada