And most importantly, it issued the call in the form of a short-term contest, of sorts: submissions were to be completed “no later than mid-December ,” or about two months after the call was first issued. It used keywords commensurate with the values and rhetoric of the technology community. It reaffirmed that the Obama administration was up on the latest trends, suggesting Twitter bots, query tools, and metadata services as examples of possible submissions. It explicitly invited “students, data engineers, artists, and researchers” to contribute-just the communities likely to feel adept and engaged with the technological sphere. The White House demonstrated remarkable astuteness toward this end, both culturally and rhetorically.
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In service of the latter goal, the White House invited the public to submit “creative ways to archive this content and make it both useful and available for years to come.” In addition to these expected steps, the White House also expressed its commitment to share its social-media content with the American people-both via accessible, downloadable archives, where possible, and also through tools and gadgets that might present the content in new and synthetic ways. But the Obama White House hoped to “ensure these materials continue to be accessible on the platforms where they were created,” a savvy acknowledgement of the fact that a tweet or an Instagram post doesn’t make sense stripped from its context.
Normally, such preservation seals materials up in physical repositories, such as those maintained at the National Archives or the various presidential libraries. Last October, the White House announced a “digital transition”-the process by which the Obama presidency would hand over the reins to its various social-media accounts, their followers kept intact, while also resetting and archiving their former contents in compliance with the Presidential Records Act.
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