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Archive: March 2012 (3 Posts)

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The Results of One Scholar’s Survey: What Are Your Plans for Your Personal Digital Archives?

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

The following is a guest post by Sarah Kim from the School of Information, University of Texas at Austin. Between June 2010 and December 2011, I interviewed 20 people about how they manage and preserve their digital documents and I asked about their long-term plans for their digital stuff. The interviewees were from varied backgrounds, …

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Announcing the NDSA Innovation Awards

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. In a previous blog post, the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group asked: How can the digital stewardship community do more to recognize and encourage innovation in the community? Being composed of a diverse membership …

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Personal Digital Archiving 2012 in San Francisco

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

For its third consecutive year, the Personal Digital Archiving conference brought together a diverse range of presenters and audience members with different approaches to “personal archiving.” There were a few case studies in which the researchers worked directly with people and reported their findings; most of the presentations were about tools, data analysis and social …