socialibrarian is moving home
Hi everyone. Checking up on my stats today, it looks like I have succeeded in generating a modest amount of interest in my writing on this blog, and I am very grateful for the support that I have received throughout my library school experience.
I ain't quitting, so don't get your hopes up. But I am moving the blog over to my main domain page at http://danielhooker.com/. This is purely because I want to streamline my ability to update my resume and contact information in the same place as my blog posts. So: please update your bookmarks if you're interested. Here's what you need to know:
- Homepage: http://danielhooker.com/
- Blog posts: http://danielhooker.com/blog/
- RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/danhooker
This blog is just going to stay as-is for as long as it doesn't get hacked, to avoid linkrot on my older posts. If, however, you know you have linked to the socialibrarian and are feeling proactive, all the posts can now also be found on the new site.
As a taste of what's to come, I blogged there yesterday as an inaugural post of sorts. So there it is, and I hope you continue reading the things I write.
Thanks and see you around the bend.
Dan
read onLibrary of Congress and the social media archive
By now everyone is up to their ears with tweets about the Library of Congress's annoucement that they will archive every Tweet. Here are my initial concerns and lauds.
- Cost. Library Journal has already questioned this. How much storage space is this going to require? How will it be sustainable? And how often are they planning on doing updates to the data stream? Will they begin collecting Tweets in real time? Monthly? Yearly?
- Content and archival quality. What about all those shortened bit.ly links? Or the old ones from services that have shut down, like Twurl? Or the really old ones that might be full URLs but that have rotted away? We can't expect this to be perfect, but is LOC planning on trying to capture anything external to what the tweets may refer to? I got this idea from @dancohen. He suggests that LOC may need to take snapshots of the linked websites, and I think that sounds almost essential in a way albeit messy and difficult.
- Searchability. This could either be the greatest thing to happen to Twitter search, or a huge disappointment. Will LOC make their database of Tweets searchable? Right now, Twitter search is good for about a week and a half. Library of Congress has a huge opportunity to blast that wide open, and we can only hope that they are able (infrastructure and $$$-wise) to do so.
