The Personal Digital Archives Working Group (PDAWG) addresses opportunities and challenges associated with the stewardship of born-digital materials that are created or received by individuals.
Tyranny of the Type Manager
At Personal Archiving 2010, Bill Janssen (PARC) just mentioned something called the "tyranny of the type manager." This is the ubiquity of programs designed to create, manage and use only very specific types of files. For example, Light Room is optimized for its own formats which are used widely by enthusiasts to manage their digital photos.
Saving Our Present for the Future: Personal Archiving 2010
On February 16, 2010, the Internet Archive hosted "a small conference for practitioners in personal digital archiving." The agenda for the day included examples of current practice; developing recommendations for institutions and individuals; and developing a research agenda.
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Related Resources
What's been written and what tools have been created that are relevant to personal digital archives?
You can find a list of Related Resources created in support of a meeting in Chapel Hill in March 2009.
What else is out there?
What would help you most?
If PDAWG were to create one thing over the next year that would help you most, what would that be?
You can provide answers as comments below.
Related Activities
This is a place to identify things going on that you think we should know about (e.g. your own projects, activities we should monitor, groups we should be contacting for potential collaborations). We can clean things up later. For now, let's just generate a list.
- Archive Team - "an offloading point and information depot for a number of archiving projects, all related to saving websites or data that is in danger of being lost"
Proposed Project Directions for PDAWG
See the attached discussion draft circulated in advance of: Stewardship of E-Manuscripts: Advancing a Shared Agenda (March 31, 2009, Wilson Library, Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
The document proposes a course of action and set of associated approaches for dealing with personal digital archives.
1) Collect data to determine:
a) Current collecting institution practices for dealing with personal digital materials, in terms of the Digital Curation Approaches for Personal Digital Archives (below)
