The other day we posted about the Library of Congress will be capturing some Twitter “tweets” during the Supreme Court confirmation process of Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

Today, while browsing the Library of Congress web site we came across a larger project to capture and archive web content dealing with the confirmation. In other words, the “tweets” are part of a larger LC initiative.

From a LC Web Capture site web page:

The Supreme Court Nominations 2009 Web Archive will be a selective collection of Web sites archived between June 2009 through the completion of the hearings process. Web sites collected will include materials produced by watchdog, public policy, and political advocacy groups, blogs and tweets, community and religious organizations, foreign and domestic news sources, educational and research institutions, and independent websites.

Collection dates: June 2009 through confirmation hearings.

Source LC

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