On the finish of October, we shared our plans for preserving and passing on the digital historical past of the Obama administration, and invited the American folks to “give you artistic methods to archive this content material and make it each helpful and accessible for years to return.” From the very starting, our mission has been to succeed in Individuals and folks world wide on the channels and platforms the place they already spend their time. The White Home social media archive tells the story not simply of how we’ve used these platforms to interact with folks wherever they’re, but additionally of how the digital panorama has modified over the previous eight years. Residents, college students, firms, and organizations answered this name to motion—and right this moment we’re excited to share a few of their progressive archival initiatives with you:
- ArchiveSocial, a social media archiving platform, is internet hosting an open archive consolidating greater than a quarter-million White Home social media posts which are simply searchable by date, platform, and key phrase. The open archive is now accessible to the general public at http://ObamaWhiteHouseArchive.social
- Rhizome, a digital artwork group, is publishing a sequence of multi-media, digital essays that designate Web tradition related to the Obama administration—beginning with the historical past of the “Thanks Obama” meme, the First Lady’s Turnip Vine, and the #LoveWins hashtag on Instagram and Twitter. Study extra on Rhizome’s website.
- MIT Media Lab’s Electome group and Derek Lieu, a programmer, each used topical evaluation to know what points the White Home was speaking about most on Twitter. Electome’s interactive tool compares Administration tweets with a sampling of citizen tweets, and Derek’s evaluation examines and the way White Home tweet topics fluctuated over the course of the Administration.
- GIPHY, a GIF search engine, will launch a web page that permits the general public to view the entire GIFs that the White Home has ever shared, in addition to a set of the entire White Home’s Vines. The web page may even embrace many different White Home associated GIFs which were pulled collectively by GIPHY’s Editorial staff. Test it out at giphy.com/Obama
- A brand new Twitter bot constructed by the Portland, Oregon-based studio, Really feel Practice, will republish White Home tweets over the subsequent eight years to mark a few of the most vital moments of the Obama administration as skilled on Twitter. Comply with alongside by visiting @Relive44 on Twitter.
- College students might be diving into our social media knowledge, too. On the College of Texas-Austin, college students in Dr. Amelia Acker’s graduate seminar might be using White Home social media knowledge of their closing initiatives. And NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) Fellows are internet hosting an “Obamathon” on January sixth—a particular hackathon to spawn the creation of latest initiatives, like those listed above.
- Web Archive is making White Home social media knowledge accessible to obtain from their website—guaranteeing it’s publicly-accessible for years to return—and internet hosting a public hackathon this Saturday, January seventh.
The White Home convened these residents within the hopes that their creations would encourage folks (such as you) to dive into the archives themselves—to construct analysis instruments, artwork initiatives, and the like. That’s why, beginning right this moment, you may obtain the White Home’s Twitter, Facebook, and Vine archives your self. The entire tweets revealed by President Obama and the First Lady can be found, as properly. We will’t wait to see what you make.