Snapshots of Politics on the Internet

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Snapshots of Politics on the Internet

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...

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.

Guests

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

Related Links

Internet Archive
The Library of Congress Web Archives (LCWA)
Past Versions of http://wamu.org, from the Internet Archive's "Wayback Machine"

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