Archiving social media. Our social media archive has been released today, as a collaborative effort between The National Archives and the Internet Memory Foundation, our web archiving supplier. Capturing content published on blogs has been part of our everyday work for some time. Other social media platforms, such as Twitter and YouTube, are a challenge for traditional web archiving technology. They are highly interactive and instantaneous, and much of the technology that underpins them changes regularly. Social media services are primarily designed with immediate use in mind and, because the content is forever changing and being deleted, it is at a high risk of being lost forever.
Government now uses a wide variety of social media platforms but we have limited this project to Twitter and YouTube as, although archiving them presented unique technical challenges, we were confident that it was feasible. Taking each platform in turn, below is a summary of the challenges we faced during the project. Twitter. Tweets and social media to enter National Archives. The videos date from 2006 to early 2014 and tweets from 2008 to September 2013. Clem Brohier, Interim Chief Executive and Keeper of The National Archives, said: “Social media now plays an important part in government communications with departments using Twitter to clarify policy and You Tube to promote initiatives.
"So it was imperative for The National Archives to develop systems to support social media archiving and for these formats to be preserved as part of the official public record. "This was no small task but we rose to the challenge. It is an exciting step for archives and history; with present and future generations being able to view tweets to understand events in history, just like we do with historic telegrams today.” The National Archives is now able to capture ‘snapshots’ of Twitter feeds of up to 3,200 tweets at any one time. It is estimated that the capture of new video content will take place on an annual basis. The Olympic Record. UK Government Web Archive: Twitter.
2011 Regional Olympic Update. The Record Delivery Strategy. Records of the London 2012 Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games... The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) was established in July 2005 shortly after the Olympic bid was won by the UK Government London Olympic Bid Team. LOCOG was responsible for organising, publicising and staging the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games of 2012. Among its responsibilities were venue and competition management, sponsorship, ticket sales, the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, the Volunteer programme and monitoring and reporting project progress to the International Olympic Committee. LOCOG was also responsible for preparing and delivering all venues in Games mode, including infrastructure at temporary Games venues and, in the lead up to the Games, to host 'test' events to ensure that the venues were ready for use.
LOCOG was chaired by Lord Sebastian Coe with Paul Deighton as its Chief Executive. 1. The IOC owns the rights to the Olympic Games and is responsible for supervising the organisation of the London 2012 Games. TNA Gov Olympic Prep Content. Archives for the 21st Century. Archives for the 21st Century Refreshed. The People's Record.