Library of Congress Blog (Jan 4) - "Update on the Twitter Archive at the
Library of Congress":
http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2013/01/update-on-the-twitter-archive-at-the-library-of-congress/
Five-page whitepaper mentioned at end of pretty remarkable blog.
Library of Congress (Jan 2013) - "Update on the Twitter Archive At the
Library of Congress":
http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2013/files/twitter_report_2013jan.pdf
In April, 2010, the Library of Congress and Twitter signed an
agreement providing the
Library the public tweets from the company’s inception through the
date of the
agreement, an archive of tweets from 2006 through April, 2010.
Additionally, the Library
and Twitter agreed that Twitter would provide all public tweets on an
ongoing basis
under the same terms. The Library’s first objectives were to acquire
and preserve the
2006-10 archive; to establish a secure, sustainable process for
receiving and preserving a
daily, ongoing stream of tweets through the present day; and to create
a structure for
organizing the entire archive by date. This month, all those
objectives will be completed.
To date, the Library has an archive of approximately 170 billion tweets.
The Library’s focus now is on confronting and working around the
technology challenges
to making the archive accessible to researchers and policymakers in a
comprehensive,
useful way. It is clear that technology to allow for scholarship
access to large data sets is
lagging behind technology for creating and distributing such data.
Even the private sector
has not yet implemented cost-effective commercial solutions because of
the complexity
and resource requirements of such a task. The Library is now pursuing
partnerships with
the private sector to allow some limited access capability in our
reading rooms. These
efforts are ongoing and a priority for the Library.
This document summarizes the Library’s work to date and outlines
present-day progress
and challenges.
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