Quick presentation for the University of Scranton's Technology on Your Own Terms series for Spring 2012, heavily indebted to the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/personalarchiving/) and Ellyssa Kroski's Personal Digital Archiving Series on iLibrarian (http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2012/personal-digital-archiving-ilibrarian-series/).

1. Part II (Digital)
Kristen Yarmey
Technology On Your Own Terms
Spring 2012

2. Digital Natives Explore Digital Preservation
Why Digital Preservation is Important for You
Why Digital Preservation is Important for Everyone

5. Media degradation
Media obsolescence
Hardware obsolescence
Software obsolescence
Technology failure
User error
...etc

6.  Identify
 Decide what to save
 Organize
 Save and back up
 Monitor
 Photos and videos
 Documents
 Email
 Websites and social media
 Digitization
 Digital afterlife

7. Laptop hard drive
External hard drive
CDs and DVDs
Phone
Tablet
Memory cards
iTunes
Facebook
Email
Photo sharing sites
Google Docs

11. File names
Folders

12. Description
Software

13. (3) copies
on (2) different media
with (1) in a different place

14. • Widely adopted
• Open (rather than
File format
proprietary)
• Photos: JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG
• Videos: MPEG-2, MPEG-4
• Audio: WAV, MP3, AAC, WMA
• Documents: PDF, ODF
• Email: TXT, PDF, MBOX, EML

15. • Easy
• Convenient
Medium
• Stable
• Exportable
• Diverse
• Working copy: desktop or laptop hard drive
• Probably not such a great idea: memory card,
USB flash drive

16. • Automatic?
• Stable
Backups
• Easy to refresh
• Diverse
• External hard drive (1TB ≈ $100)
• Cloud storage
• Print
• CDs or DVDs…. ehhhhhh

17. • Price
• Privacy
• Exportability Cloud services
• Compression?
• Ease of use
• Retention policy
• Photosharing – KodakGallery, Shutterfly, Flickr…
• Windows Live (SkyDrive) = 25GB free
• Google
• Dropbox
• Box.net
• Jungle Disk
• Carbonite

18. • Refresh media
• Migrate file formats
• Spot check files
• Watch for obsolescence

19. • Where are your email messages stored?
• Do you want to organize? Does anyone?
• How do you want to back up?
• MailStore Home
• Email Management and Preservation
Guidelines

20. Facebook
Twitter
YouTube
Website
Blog
Google Docs
Evernote
• Deathwatch and Fire Drill

21. Download your data from Facebook (Archive Team)

22. Google Data Liberation Front
Google Takeout

24. • VHS
• Film
• Photos

26.  Identify
 Decide what to save
 Organize
 Save and back up
 Monitor
 Be practical.
 You can’t won’t save
everything.
 Delete as you go.
 LOCKSS.
 Did I mention backing up?
 Forgive yourself.

27.  Library of Congress
 Scanning Your Personal Collections
 How Long Will Digital Storage Media Last?
 Transferring Photos from Your Camera to Your
Computer
 Transferring Video from Tape, DVD or Camera to
Your Computer
 Keeping Personal Digital Photographs
 Keeping Personal Digital Video
 Personal Digital Records
 Keeping Personal Electronic Mail
 Archiving Email
 Keeping Personal Websites, Blogs and Social Media
 Save My Memories (International Imaging
Industry Association)
 Learn
 Prepare
 Protect
 Recover

28.  Library of Congress
 Personal Archiving
 Sustainability of Digital Formats
 Film Preservation Links (via Smithsonian)
 iLibrarian
 Selection Strategy
 Case by Case Strategy
 PARADIGM
 Eleven top tips for preserving your personal data
 Digital Preservation Management
 PCMag
 Disaster-Proof Your Data with Online Backup