. Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:03:37 +0100 From: Gary Price <gary.price@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: jwne@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ResourceShelf] Newsletter 452 Off the Shelf: ResourceShelf Newsletter <http://www.resourceshelf.com/> Number 452 April 22, 2010
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Greetings from St. Pete/Tampa: This was an unusually busy week on the ResourceShelf website as we tried diligently to keep up with news, announcements of new resources, etc. (If you haven't visited the week, we suggest you head over there as soon as you finish reading this newsletter.) The most significant bit of news, at least from our perspective, is that the Library of Congress will be getting a copy of the complete Twitter archive. The good news is this valuable digital resource will be professionally preserved. The bad news is, it will not be publicly accessible -- either online or at LC itself. The archive *will* be made available to professional researchers -- but many, many details are yet to be worked out. Read all about it in the current Resource of the Week, where you can also learn about Google's Twitter archive -- not nearly as extensive, but publicly available and searchable via the Internet. And have a great week. sdk Using the social media sites? You can find us: On Facebook: * ResourceShelf: <http://www.facebook.com/pages/ResourceShelf/45783383771> * DocuTicker: <http://www.facebook.com/pages/DocuTicker/44566289460> * Gary: <http://www.facebook.com/people/Gary-Price/580249905> * Shirl: <http://www.facebook.com/people/Shirl-Kennedy/566607461> Or Twitter: * Combined ResourceShelf and DocuTicker feed: <http://www.twitter.com/resourceshelf> * DocuTicker only feed: <http://www.twitter.com/docuticker> * Shirl tweets here: <http://twitter.com/webdoyenne> ++ Your DocuTicker and ResourceShelf Editorial Team ++ Shirl Kennedy Senior Editor <shirl.kennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Gary Price Founding Editor <gary.price@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Adrian Janes Contributing Editor Steven Cohen Contributing Editor Dan Giancaterino Contributing Editor Laura Gordon-Murnane Contributing Editor Stuart Basefsky, MLIS Contributing Editor
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Resource of the Week - The Twitter Archives from the Library of Congress & Google: The Facts As We Know Them By Gary Price, Founder and Senior Editor Direct link to this post online: <http://digbig.com/5bbktr> This has been one busy week. The stream of news and new resources never - and we mean never - slowed down. But as it turns out, one story stands above the rest this week - the new Twitter archives and, to be more specific, the announcement that the Library of Congress would be getting a copy. A few hours before LC began to get the word out (via a tweet, appropriately), Google announced they were already online with a searchable version of the Twitter archive. As of today, the Google's Twitter archive only goes back a few months to February 2010 but 'eventually' the entire archive back to day one will be available and searchable. What we would like to do in this post is go over the facts and, where we don't have the exact info we need, take educated guess at the answers. Keep in mind that things do change and, in some cases, further details need to discussed and decisions need to be made. We read all of the primary documents (links are available), used the Google service, and were fortunate enough to have a telephone chat with a spokesperson from LC. We also read some 'way out' stuff (e.g., the Library of Congress bought Twitter) but most of the time, just a fact or two were either missing or a bit 'off'. So, with all of that out of the way, let's get to the details. The Library of Congress Twitter Archive Update: Martha Anderson, the director of National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). was interviewed by Phobe Connelly from The American Prospect. We've read the interview and added some additional facts/quotes from it and added them to our post. Look for the three asterisks ***. * The Library of Congress Twitter archive will not be accessible to and searchable by the general public on the Internet or at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. However, the archive will be accessible to researchers on-site at LC. Details about researcher access will be developed and made public in the next few months, but it's likely a researcher will have to certify his or her identity by at least signing a form. Again, exact details are forthcoming. As of today, if you want to search back a couple of years to look at tweets, Google is your only option. Yes, we still wonder if Bing or a smaller player will offer another online/public/searchable Twitter archive. * The Library of Congress did not buy anything from Twitter. The archive is a gift from Twitter. *** 'Twitter approached us.' - Martha Anderson, NDIIPP A) Will the Library of Congress get updates for the archive from Twitter (so Twitter does the actual archiving and LC does the preservation work; or B) LC does both the actual archiving and preservation. From what we've pieced together, our best guess at this time is A. *** 'They will be rolling updates' - Martha Anderson (via The American Prospect) If choice A is accurate, how will the updates get to LC? Will they be physically sent on hard drives via UPS or Fedex or will massive files - perhaps a months worth of Tweets - be sent and downloaded via the Internet? With networks getting faster and faster (LC is a member of Internet2), along with software allowing data to move more quickly, it's more likely to be a download situation. * There will be an embargo/delay of six months before new tweets enter the Library of Congress Twitter database, as mentioned in the official Twitter announcement/blog post. *** 'There's a built in six-month window, so we don't have the live Twitter archive at any given time. There is a window for people if they want to delete their tweets, things like that.' - Martha Anderson, NDIIPP (via American Prospect) * The Library of Congress Twitter Archive WILL BE accessible to Library of Congress staff for internal use only; for non-commercial research by qualified and credentialed researchers - those terms still need to be defined, as mentioned earlier - and for limited public display by LC. Finally, LC can do preservation work with the Twitter tweets. This sentence was included in the Library of Congress news release: While the Twitter archive will not be posted online, the Library envisions posting selected content around topics or themes, similar to existing VHP (Veterans History Project) presentations. After we read the 'the library envisions..' in the news release, we once again know that no Twitter data via LC will be online. This ResourceShelf post contains links to the the primary documents mentioned in this section. *** In the interview with The American Prospect, we learn that a group from Stanford U. will be involved with the Twitter Archive at LC. We have a partnership with Stanford University, a bunch of very bright mathematical grad students who have been helping us understand how to mine even our digital collections here. We hope to put them to work building tools to help people make order out of it. They've done some really interesting work for us on these digitized reports from the [Work Progress Administration] during the Great Depression. They were personal narratives - people went out and interviewed people all over the country. It's in English, but it's colloquial sometimes. They've helped us get into it and make sense of it, because full-text searching doesn't always do the trick. - Martha Anderson, NDIIPP *** --- The Google Twitter Archive * Like most things Google, historical searching of tweets has a name. It's called Google Replay. * As of today, you CAN search using Google Replay only back to February 2010, with a minimal delay for new tweets. There is NO embargo/delay of tweets using Google Replay. 'Eventually' (that term is not defined), the entire Twitter archive will be accessible and searchable using Google Replay by anyone from any computer that can access Google. BTW, this is what the Twitter home page looked like on September 30, 2006. * Google Replay uses the familiar Google timeline interface (as used with Google News for some time) where you can manipulate the timeline to narrow the focus to down to the minute. (Note the bar that sits on the timeline; it moves) * If you want to go directly to Google Replay, this link should get you there. <http://bit.ly/aMe1fX> The example uses "Philadelphia" as the search term on February 14, 2010, from 4:32pm - 4:43pm. Also, notice the month and date; those can be changed. You can also use the arrows to move ahead or back a few minutes at a time, and you can also jump to right 'now' with a single click. The material for the Google Replay section, including primary documents, can be accessed here. <http://digbig.com/5bbkts> Summary Both services are needed. Will others come into play. The LC Archive is essential. It's going to receive cutting edge preservation; it will allow qualified researchers from LC and elsewhere to mine the data; it might even create a new exhibit at LC. However, it's not a publicly accessible research tool. I do wonder if people will show up wanting to use the database and not be able to. I would imagine the same thing happens regularly with LC users wanting to exit the library with LC materials. Or also - people phoning LC, asking if they have a particular book and whether they can get it sent to them. Google Replay IS for the public. It IS searchable and it IS easily manipulated to assist in focusing a search query. As we said a moment ago, it IS accessible from any computer connected to the web that can reach Google. Update: 'Tweets: What We Might Learn From Mundane Details' (via AOTUS Blog from Archivist of the United States, David Ferriero. (Hat Tip: ArchivesNext) Full post online with live links: <http://digbig.com/5bbktr>
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