Personal Digital Archiving 2012
From family photographs and personal papers to health and financial information, vital personal records are becoming digital. Creation and capture of digital information has become a part of the daily routine for hundreds of millions of people, and there is a growing number of commercial services, such as Facebook’s Timeline, aimed at individuals who want to preserve a record of their life.
The combination of new capture devices (more than 1 billion camera phones will be sold in 2012) and new types of media are reshaping both our personal and collective memories. Personal collections are growing in size and complexity. As these collections spread across different media (including film and paper!), we are redrawing the lines between personal and professional data, and between published and unpublished information.
But what are the long-term prospects for this data? Which institutions, technologies, standards, funding models, and services are most credible?
For individuals, institutions, investors, entrepreneurs, and funding agencies thinking about how best to address these issues, Personal Digital Archiving 2012 will clarify the technical, social, economic questions around personal archiving. Presentations will include contemporary solutions to archiving problems that attendees may replicate for their own collections, and address questions such as:
• What new social norms around preservation, access, and disclosure are emerging?
• Do libraries, museums, and archives have a new responsibility to collect digital personal materials?
• How can we effectively preserve social network data? Can we better anticipate (and measure) losses of personal material?
• What is the relationship of personal health information to personal archives?
• How can we cope with the intersection between personal data and collective or social data that is personal?
• How can we manage the shift from simple text-based data to rich media such as movies in personal collections?
• What tools and services are needed to better enable self-archiving? What models for user interfaces are most appropriate?
• What are viable existing economic models that can support personal archives? What new economic models should we evaluate?
• What are the long-term rights management issues? Are there unrecognized stakeholders we should begin to account for now?
• What are the projects we can commit to in the coming year?
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