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Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
Curiously, most of us in the digital memory business are hesitant to visually document our own work. Possibly this has to do with the perceived nature of the enterprise, which involves tasks that may seem routine. But pictures tell an important story, and I set about finding a few that depicted some of the digital preservation …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Leslie Johnston
After reading a great post by the Smithsonian Institution Archives on Archiving Family Traditions, I started thinking about my own activities as a steward of my and my family’s digital life. I give myself a “C” at best. Now, I am not a bad steward of my own digital life. I make sure there are …
Posted in: Personal Archiving
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
During Thanksgiving and the rest of the holiday season, you might take photos and video of friends and loved ones. You might make audio recordings of voices, conversations and music. Whatever you photograph or record, we hope you will take time to backup and preserve your digital stuff. As soon as you can, transfer the …
Posted in: Personal Archiving
Posted by: Erin Engle
There is a growing community of individuals who are interested in the preservation of personal digital information. Those individuals may include professionals working in libraries and archives who are receiving personal collections, scholars working with their own research materials and data, commercial companies working on consumer products to help people organize and save their digital …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
What if the Kennedy assassination had happened during the era of smartphones and laptops? And, assuming the perpetrator left a digital trail, would that evidence uncover any associated conspiracy? As we approach the 50th anniversary of that awful day in Dallas, recent public opinion polls indicate that over 60 percent of Americans believe more than …
Posted in: Personal Archiving
Posted by: Susan Manus
If so, you are in luck – we have a publication on that very subject. “Perspectives on Personal Digital Archiving” was published and announced earlier this year, but I think it’s worth a reminder at this point, especially for those that may not have seen it yet. So, why did we put this together? Because …
Posted in: Personal Archiving, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Leslie Johnston
This past weekend I got to do one of my favorite things of the year: work at the NDIIPP Digital Preservation booth at the 2013 National Book Festival. Why is it one of my favorite things to do each year? Because I get to hear from real people about what their personal digital preservation issues …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
This is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead. We recently moved to a new house, and my husband, a professional musician, has been working on setting up a music and recording studio upstairs now that we have the room. Alongside the clarinets, saxophones and keyboard sit a desktop computer (with better …
Posted in: Personal Archiving
Posted by: Susan Manus
This is a guest post by Ingrid Jernudd, a volunteer with NDIIPP. For the past week, I’ve been working on creating video tutorials for personal digital archiving and I must say – creating these videos is quite fun! With the various types of video editing software, I find the process to be relatively intuitive. I’m …
Posted in: Personal Archiving, Publications and Resources