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From: Brad Houston <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:05 PM
Subject: [archives] Library of Congress to Acquire Twitter Archives
To: "Archives & Archivists (A&A) List" <[log in to unmask]>
Hope I'm not duplicating anything, as I mostly check the list on the Lyris
forums....
The Library of Congress recently (as in 20 minutes ago) announced that they
had made arrangements to acquire every public tweet from Twitter since its
inception in 2006. The LoC Blog has a post explicating this a bit, but the
announcement seems to have driven a rush of traffic to the LoC site, thus
crashing it (Not a good sign!). There is an article at ReadWriteWeb that
gives most of the pertinent details in the meantime:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitters_entire_archive_headed_to_the_library_of_c.php
There's a pretty lively discussion going on among a number of archivists on
twitter, so I'm curious about what list members think about this as well.
Off the top of my head, there are a number of questions raised about systems
requirements, searchability and accessibility, and, most ominously,
copyright. I am fairly certain that Twitter's ToS explicitly states that
users retain rights to their tweets (although they may be
reproduced/forwarded), so I wonder how they will deal with Twitter users who
don't want their tweets preserved for all time.
Additionally, the Trending Topics search for "Library" and "Archives" is
veeeeery interesting right now. A lot of skepticism about the value of these
archives, a lot of concern about privacy, and a lot of library and librarian
jokes (at least one person asked if they would print out the tweets and bind
them in leather...).
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Brad Houston
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Archives Department
UWM Libraries
Phone: 414-229-6979
Web: http://records.uwm.edu
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