National Archives Seeks to Revamp How Presidential Library Archives Social Media

guest · Jul 19, 2021

National Archives Seeks to Revamp How Presidential Library Archives Social Media
NARA is looking for outside ideas around the improvement of its Presidential Library website
July 19, 2021
https://www.nextgov.com/analytics-d...dential-library-archives-social-media/183880/

The National Archives and Records Administration is looking to industry for ideas around how it might improve the way it collects and archives social media data from presidential administrations.

NARA laid out its tentative plans in a request for information July 14. Through the RFI, NARA seeks information from companies “capable and interested in utilizing the agile development process to design, develop and implement an interactive, user-friendly President Library website component to president the public with archived social media data” that meets NARA standards.
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Previous administrations have used third-party tools to collect and archive a variety of social media information and posts from Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube and transferred that data to NARA for retention.

However, the RFI makes clear NARA is moving away from using native platforms, in part because some platforms “do not display the full record of data which could include edited or deleted content.”
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“For this task order, the contractor will utilize an agile process to implement the component with data archived from the following social media platforms: Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube,” according to the RFI’s draft statement of objectives.
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