Personal Archiving: Preserving Our Digital Heritage

321 Pages·2013·2.66 MB·English

by  Hawkins

Personal Archiving:
Preserving Our
Digital Heritage
Advance Praise for Personal Archiving
“Personal Archiving addresses all of the significant decisions individuals
must make regarding personal (and family) memories and memorabilia.
The volume serves as a welcome, much needed how-to for individuals
looking to preserve and share their photo albums and shoeboxes of slides
with friends and family, near and far, today and future generations.”
—Barbie E. Keiser, information resources
management (IRM) consultant
“Multiple authors bring a wide range of perspectives that challenge us
to consider how our stories are embedded in the increasingly digital
but also physical trail that is a byproduct of our lives. Organizing it,
understanding it, and sharing it in a way that is meaningful provides
ample opportunity for reflection—about ourselves and those whose
lives and work will be visible to future generations.”
—Judy Luther, president, Informed Strategies LLC
“The new online life has great potential for creating a personal record
of digital activities. Personal Archivingis a timely collection of excellent
chapters from multiple perspectives that cover many aspects of per-
sonal digital archiving.”
—Greg R. Notess, reference librarian,
Montana State University Library
“This thorough examination of the world of digital archiving is an
excellent resource for anyone, personally or professionally, who is
responsible for preserving their personal and collective stories. It
emphasizes the importance of capturing and preserving our stories and
the resulting complications, particularly since the digital realm is so
impermanent."
—Cherilyn P. Fiory, director, Upper Dublin (PA) Public Library
“Don Hawkins and his contributors provide the knowledge and advice
that can ensure that your digital footprints in the sand don’t wash away
with the next wave of technological change. If you care about your
personal written and artistic legacy, learn from this work.”
—Stephen Abram, CEO, Federation of Ontario Public
Libraries, and president, Lighthouse Consulting Inc.
Personal Archiving:
Preserving Our
Digital Heritage
Edited by
Donald T. Hawkins
Medford, New Jersey
First Printing,2013
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Personal archiving :preserving our digital heritage / edited by Donald T. Hawkins.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-57387-480-9
1. Personal archives. 2. Archival materials--Conservation and restoration. 3.
Archival materials--Digitization. 4. Digital preservation. 5. Records--
Management. 6. Electronic records--Management. I. Hawkins,Donald T.,editor
of compilation.
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To Pat,
Michael and Lisa,
and Sean, Rebecca, Ethan, and Emma
for their constant love and unfailing support
And to the memory of my father, Donald S. Hawkins,
who taught me how to take slide photographs

Contents
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Brewster Kahle,Internet Archive
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
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Chapter 1 Personal Digital Archives: What They Are,
What They Could Be, and Why They Matter ....... 1
JeffUbois,MacArthur Foundation
Chapter 2 Personal Archiving for Individuals and Families .... 11
Danielle Conklin,Cotton Gloves Research
Chapter 3 The Library of Congress and Personal
Digital Archiving ........................... 31
Mike Ashenfelder,Library of Congress
Chapter 4 Software and Services for Personal Archiving ..... 47
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viii Personal Archiving
Chapter 5 Digital Inheritance: Tackling the Legal and
Practical Issues ............................. 73
Evan Carroll,The Digital Beyond
Chapter 6 Social Media, Personal Data, and Reusing
Our Digital Legacy .......................... 85
Catherine C. Marshall,Microsoft Research,Silicon Valley
Chapter 7 Reading Ben Shneiderman’s Email: Identifying
Narrative Elements in Email Archives ........... 109
Jason Zalinger,University of South Florida,
Nathan G. Freier,Microsoft Corporation,and
Ben Shneiderman,University of Maryland
Chapter 8 Faculty Members as Archivists: Personal Archiving
Practices in the Academic Environment ......... 137
Ellysa SternCahoy,The Pennsylvania State University Libraries
Chapter 9 Landscape of Personal Digital Archiving
Activities and Research ...................... 153
Sarah Kim,University of Texas at Austin
Chapter 10 Active Personal Archiving and
the Internet Archive ....................... 187
Aaron Ximm,Internet Archive
Chapter 11 Our Technology Heritage ................... 215
Richard Banks,Microsoft Research,Cambridge,U.K.
Chapter 12 New Horizons in Personal Archiving:
1 Second Everyday, myKive, and MUSE ......... 243
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Christopher J. Prom,University of Illinois
Peter Chan,Stanford University
Contents ix
Chapter 13 The Future of Personal Digital Archiving:
Defining the Research Agendas .............. 259
Clifford Lynch,Coalition for Networked Information
About the Contributors .............................. 279
About the Editor .................................... 287
Index ............................................ 289