The mission of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America is to document American women of the past and present for the future through its collections, research support, public programming, and exhibitions. In support of its mission, the Library embarked on a large scale project to comprehensively document the #metoo movement and the accompanying political, legal, and social battles. 

Through the #metoo Digital Media Collection, Schlesinger Library provides enduring scholarly access to content including social media conversations, press stories, and multimedia declarations and rebuttals: resources which are now pervasive in our collective consciousness and social media feeds, yet will prove acutely vulnerable in the long-term, as proprietary platforms, individual user-accounts, and the ever-changing landscape of the Web continually transform.

The project was guided by a steering committee of Harvard experts in the fields of history, law, business, and data science as well as librarians and archivists with expertise in digital preservation and data analysis.