EOP solicitation, "Web Archive"

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Ross Stapleton-Gray <ross () stapleton-gray com>
Date: September 2, 2009 1:05:18 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net, Brewster Kahle <brewster () archive org>
Subject: EOP solicitation, "Web Archive"

This solicitation came to my attention for someone's posting about it  
on FaceBook, forwarding a right-wing blog's talking it up as the White  
House wanting to vacuum all social media sites to collect information  
on detractors, a la Nixon's enemies list.  So I figured I ought to  
post about it here, first, to beat the paranoid crowd to the podium:

https://www.fbo.gov/spg/EOP/OP/WashingtonDC/WHO-S-09-0003/listing.html

"The contractor shall provide the necessary services to capture,  
store, extract to approved formats, and transfer content published by  
EOP on publicly-accessible web sites, along with information posted by  
non-EOP persons on publicly-accessible web sites where the EOP offices  
under PRA maintains a presence, throughout the term of the contract.   
The contractor shall if possible, capture, store, extract to approved  
formats, and transfer content published by EOP on non-public  
websites.  The contractor shall include in the information posted by  
non-EOP persons on publicly-accessible web sites where the EOP  
maintains a presence both comments posted on pages created by EOP and  
messages sent to EOP accounts on those web sites.  Publicly-accessible  
sites may include, but are not limited to social networking sites.    
The contractor shall provide a user-friendly way of organizing and  
searching captured information.   The contractor shall properly  
transfer the captured information, as identified by EOP, to NARA in an  
acceptable format for both preservation in NARA's Electronic Records  
Archive and presentation at the future Presidential Library.  The  
Contractor shall provide a method to separate content posted by other  
EOP component offices as required."

In a nutshell, the solicitation says, "The White House posts stuff  
online: we need someone to collect that for archival purposes [for the  
National Archives] along with all public comments that refer to those  
White House postings."

This is exactly what I'd have recommended, re being responsive to the  
public discussion, in the information age.  The scope is only what the  
White House itself posts, and what the public then, as public  
postings, says in comment to that.  Bravo!  (And recalling that the  
previous administration somehow managed to lose millions of e-mail  
records that ought to have similarly been delivered to NARA.)

Ross


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Ross Stapleton-Gray, Ph.D.
Stapleton-Gray & Associates, Inc.
http://www.stapleton-gray.com









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