Tech | September 16, 2009 | 7 comments

Why the White House is Hiring a Social Media Archivist

source: http://mashable.com/2009/09/16/white-house-records/

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In the wake of the Watergate scandal, the US Congress passed the Presidential Records Act (PRA) in 1978. This act changed the legal ownership of official records from the Executive Office of the President (EOP) from private to public and mandated that these records be filed with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

Although policies and procedures have been in place for years for preserving and archiving paper and electronic traditional documents and records, as White House (and by extension, EOP) communication extends into areas of social media, that presents new challenges in archiving things like blog postings, Twitter messages, YouTube videos and so-on. This content, plus the comments and replies associated with them (think letters to the President) all need to be archived under the PRA.
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