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Collection Software, E-Resource Meme Generator : collected datasets Meme Generator dataset

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Title

  • Meme Generator : collected datasets

Other Title

  • Meme Generator dataset

Summary

  • Meme Generator allows users to create and share image macros (featuring a picture, or artwork, superimposed with text) in the style of popular internet memes. The site also serves as a searchable collection of user-created images. Meme images/image macros are widely used images that include text written to a range of templates used in online communication.

Names

  • Library of Congress Web Archiving Program, compiler
  • Library of Congress, collector
  • American Folklife Center, sponsor

Created / Published

  • 2012-2018.

Headings

  • -  Memes
  • -  Visual communication

Genre

  • Data sets
  • Web archives

Notes

  • -  Collection includes a data set created on May 5, 2018, from crawls of the Library of Congress's Web Cultures Web Archive. This dataset, memes-5-17, includes data for 57,652 memes. The Meme Generator dataset includes 86,310 total memes images which represent 57,652 unique memes. Cite as: Meme Generator dataset, 2018-05-17.
  • -  Meme Generator collected data sets, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  • -  Library of Congress Web Archiving Team; Accession; 2012-2018.

Medium

  • archived website, textual datasets, images
  • 57,652 items (.csv)

Repository

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2018655320

Rights Advisory

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

Access Advisory

Online Format

  • compressed data

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. Meme Generator: collected datasets. composeds by Library Of Congress Web Archiving Programiler to 2018, 2010. Software, E-Resource. https://www.loc.gov/item/2018655320/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress, C. & American Folklife Center, S. (2010) Meme Generator: collected datasets. Library Of Congress Web Archiving Programiler, comp to 2018. [Software, E-Resource] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2018655320/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, Collector, and Sponsor American Folklife Center. Meme Generator: collected datasets. comp by Library Of Congress Web Archiving Programiler to 2018, 2010. Software, E-Resource. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2018655320/>.