For the past decade, debates about politics and public policy have been spilling onto the Internet. But many of the artifacts of those debates -- from campaign materials to government records -- now exist only in their digital form. Tech Tuesday explores new initiatives to capture snapshots of today's official websites and archive the digital history of American politics.
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Snapshots of Politics on the Internet
Listen Tuesday, Sep. 23, 2008 at 12:06 p.m. in Science, Tech Tuesday, TechnologyGuests
Martha Anderson
Director of Program Management, National Digital Information
Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), Library of Congress
Kris Carpenter
Director of the Web Group, Internet Archive
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