Twitter's Entire Archive Headed to the Library of Congress

[Dave Farber <dfarber () me com>]

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> From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
> Date: April 14, 2010 12:29:26 PM EDT
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> Cc: Farber Dave <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Twitter's Entire Archive Headed to the Library of Congress

> Twitter's Entire Archive Headed to the Library of Congress
>
> Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 14, 2010 9:03 AM / 2 Comments
>
> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitters_entire_archive_headed_to_the_library_of_c.php
>
> The US Library of Congress announced this morning via its official Twitter account that it will be acquiring the 
> entire archive of Twitter messages back through March, 2006. In addition to a massive printed collection, the Library 
> already has an extensive collection of other digital assets. The Library of Congress is the biggest library in the 
> world.
>
> The Library does extensive work with data format standards, the semantic web and other platforms for outside 
> analysis. The addition of Twitter into the organization's offerings could foster an enormous amount of academic 
> research.
>
> Will the archive include friend/follower connection data? Will it be usable for commercial purposes? Will there be a 
> web interface for searching it and will that change the face of Twitter search for good? Is there any way that the 
> much larger archive of Facebook data could be submitted to the same body for analysis of the same kind?
>
> These kinds of large data sets are poised to become one of the most important resources the Internet creates. As 
> Kenneth Cukier wrote in the Economist's recent Special Report on Big Data, "Data are becoming the new raw material of 
> business: an economic input almost on a par with capital and labour."
>
> There's no word from Twitter itself about this news but we expect details to become public during the Chirp 
> developers conference starting in just a few minutes.
>
> It's hard to imagine a more significant milepost in social media's early march toward becoming an essential component 
> of our social experience.



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