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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811558403321

Titolo

Personal archiving : preserving our digital heritage / / edited by Donald T. Hawkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Medford, New Jersey : , : Information Today, Inc., , [2013]

�2013

ISBN

1-57387-729-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 299 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

651.5/9

Soggetti

Personal archives

Archival materials - Conservation and restoration

Archival materials - Digitization

Digital preservation

Records - Management

Electronic records - Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover --  Title page --  Contents --  Acknowledgments --  Foreword --  Introduction --  Chapter 1: Personal Digital Archives: What They Are, What They Could Be, and Why They Matter --  Chapter 2: Personal Archiving for Individuals and Families --  Chapter 3: The Library of Congress and Personal Digital Archiving --  Chapter 4: Software and Services for Personal Archiving --  Chapter 5: Digital Inheritance: Tackling the Legal and Practical Issues --  Chapter 6: Social Media, Personal Data, and Reusing Our Digital Legacy -- Chapter 7: Reading Ben Shneiderman's Email: Identifying Narrative Elements in Email Archives --  Chapter 8: Faculty Members as Archivists: Personal Archiving Practices in the Academic Environment --  Chapter 9: Landscape of Personal Digital Archiving Activities and Research --  Chapter 10: Active Personal Archiving and the Internet Archive --  Chapter 11: Our Technology Heritage --  Chapter 12: New Horizons in Personal Archiving: 1 Second Everyday, myKive, and MUSE --  Chapter 13: The Future of Personal Digital Archiving: Defining the Research Agendas --  About the Contributors.  About the Editor -- Index.



Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the emerging field of personal archiving. It covers a range of topics such as: archiving individual and family histories; services and software products; social media and email applications; legal issues; evolving formats and media considerations; academic research projects; Library of Congress initiatives; the role of the Internet Archive; research at Microsoft; and case studies of digital archiving in practice.