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Collection Software, E-Resource Giphy: [collected datasets] Giphy web archive

About this Item

Title

  • Giphy: [collected datasets]

Other Title

  • Giphy web archive

Summary

  • Giphy, founded by Alex Chung and Jace Cooke in February 2013, is an online database and search engine that allows users to search for and share animated GIF files. This site contains a large collection of reaction GIFS, animated GIF, typically of a body in motion that is used online as a response or reaction.

Names

  • Library of Congress, collector
  • American Folklife Center, sponsor

Created / Published

  • 2013-2018.

Headings

  • -  Visual communication
  • -  Nonverbal communication

Genre

  • Databases

Notes

  • -  Collection includes a data set created on May 5, 2018, from crawls of the Library of Congress's Web Cultures Web Archive. This GIPHY dataset includes data for 14,787 total GIFs, of which 10,972 are unique. Cite as: GIPHY dataset, 2018-05-17.
  • -  Search Animated GIFs on the Web - Giphy web archive (AFC #), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  • -  Library of Congress Web Archiving Team; Accession; 2013-2018.

Medium

  • archived website, textual datasets, images, animated images.
  • 10,972 items (.csv)

Repository

  • Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home
  • s-Online Electronic Resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2018655319

Rights Advisory

  • Duplication of collection materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.

Access Advisory

Online Format

  • spreadsheet

Additional Metadata Formats

Rights & Access

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Digital Collections Management and Services Division

Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, Collector, and Sponsor American Folklife Center. Giphy: Collected Datasets. to 2018, 2013. Software, E-Resource. https://www.loc.gov/item/2018655319/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress, C. & American Folklife Center, S. (2013) Giphy: Collected Datasets. to 2018. [Software, E-Resource] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2018655319/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, Collector, and Sponsor American Folklife Center. Giphy: Collected Datasets. to 2018, 2013. Software, E-Resource. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2018655319/>.