Service that can provide archiving of online text?
April 4, 2012 8:34 AM Subscribe
{VendorCrisisFilter} In my office we pay for a vendor to monitor and archive our mentions in broadcast, online, and print media. Without giving us any warning, they changed their service this month so that we can no longer archive online clips. Our contract is not up until August.
I have already called the vendor and I was given no alternatives for a way to archive online stories. This is important for our department because we are regularly asked to provide statements to the media, and we need to have a record of what we have previously said to various sources. Additionally, we need to do analytics on various topics within our coverage.
For example, just a few days ago someone asked me to give them a list of all of the clips that had to do with Medicaid from this year- something we had not been tracking or tagging. With a full text archive of all of our mentions it was no sweat to just run a search for "Medicaid", and all your clips mentioning Medicaid were good to go.
I have two major problems that my boss wants ironed out ASAP.
First, is there some sort of cheap/free service that will allow you to archive online text content based on key words or searches? It could be as simple as something that can save all of the news as it goes up from a Google News search. Right now I'm just thinking about copying and pasting text from the most relevant clips into an Access database. This is not a good solution because we usually get over a hundred clips per day.
Second, we used to be able to host text from subscription only sources that could then be shared via a link. Say, Wall Street Journal interviews the president of our organization, and my boss wants the board to be able to read his interview in our monthly report. We used to be able to host the text and include a link to just the plain text. I'm looking for something like TinyPaste for this.
I understand that copyright infringement is at the heart of these changes with our vendor, but I feel like there should be some sort of solution since we are using this material for internal tracking purposes only and not sharing it with the general public.
I have already called the vendor and I was given no alternatives for a way to archive online stories. This is important for our department because we are regularly asked to provide statements to the media, and we need to have a record of what we have previously said to various sources. Additionally, we need to do analytics on various topics within our coverage.
For example, just a few days ago someone asked me to give them a list of all of the clips that had to do with Medicaid from this year- something we had not been tracking or tagging. With a full text archive of all of our mentions it was no sweat to just run a search for "Medicaid", and all your clips mentioning Medicaid were good to go.
I have two major problems that my boss wants ironed out ASAP.
First, is there some sort of cheap/free service that will allow you to archive online text content based on key words or searches? It could be as simple as something that can save all of the news as it goes up from a Google News search. Right now I'm just thinking about copying and pasting text from the most relevant clips into an Access database. This is not a good solution because we usually get over a hundred clips per day.
Second, we used to be able to host text from subscription only sources that could then be shared via a link. Say, Wall Street Journal interviews the president of our organization, and my boss wants the board to be able to read his interview in our monthly report. We used to be able to host the text and include a link to just the plain text. I'm looking for something like TinyPaste for this.
I understand that copyright infringement is at the heart of these changes with our vendor, but I feel like there should be some sort of solution since we are using this material for internal tracking purposes only and not sharing it with the general public.
Response by poster: Our lawyers are looking into that now. But, for the time being I need some sort of solution quickly or it'll be a massive pain to deal with the backlog.
posted by forkisbetter at 8:45 AM on April 4, 2012
posted by forkisbetter at 8:45 AM on April 4, 2012
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posted by Big_B at 8:41 AM on April 4, 2012