Hmm
will the records be sealed until they are properly arranged and described? What affect will court orders etc. have on the holdings?
Chris Flynn
> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:18:47 -0400
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> Subject: Fwd: [archives] Library of Congress to Acquire Twitter Archives
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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
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> 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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