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Trump’s fleeting tweets alarm archivists
Politico reports that some, but not all, of the tweets from @realDonaldTrump show up on the official Twitter handle @POTUS. The article also says, “Trump’s aides have also used their own unofficial Twitter accounts to speak to voters. And on occasion, both the president and his advisers have scrubbed posts after they’ve gone up — […]
End-of-term crawl ongoing. Please help us do QA!
The End of Term 2016 collection is still going strong, and we continue to receive email from interested folks about how they can help. Much of the content for the EOT crawl has already been collected and some of it is publicly accessible already through our partners. Last month we posted about ways to help […]
Review of 2016 in anticipation of 2017
It is January and time once again to review what last year brought to libraries and the FDLP and where we should put our energies in the coming year. 2016 In 2016 GPO issued a series of policies that express its intentions to enhance both access to and preservation of government information. While we applaud […]
PBS NewsHour: Internet Archive and the fragility of Internet history
PBS NewsHour recently ran this very good piece on the fragility of Internet information and what the Internet Archive is doing about it. This is a good short piece that succinctly explains why in the digital age lots of copies are necessary to keep information safe. And the corollary to lots of copies is that […]
2016 End of Term (EOT) crawl and how you can help
[Editor’s note: Updated 12/15/16 to include updated email address for End-of-Term project queries (eot-info AT archive DOT org), and information about robots.txt (#1 below) and databases and their underlying data (#5 below). Also updated 12/22/16 with note about duplication of efforts and how to dive deeply into an agency’s domain at the bottom of #1 […]
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