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Laura Pearle
Ellysa Stern Cahoy
June 24, 2012
Online Personal Archiving: Preserving your record for the
future
Your online (and offline footprint)The scholarly workflow and critical
challengesHelping users manage personal
collectionsTips and tools for personal archiving
Online Personal Archiving
My online persona
1996-2002
2005 - 2009
2002-2005
2009-?
Gone (or almost)…
Institutional Memory…
It’s not just about me….
http://www.yesandspace.com.au/?p=2067
What tools do you currently use?
Where does your collection reside?
What is your information workflow like?
Your Turn
Helping our users
Ellysa Stern Cahoy & Scott P. McDonald. Personal Scholarly Workflow.
Marshall’s user challengesAccumulationDistributionCurationLong-term access
What are the critical challenges for our users?
Marshall, C., Bly, S., Brun-Cottan, F., (2007). The Long Term Fate of Our Digital Belongings : Toward a Service Model for Personal Archives. Arxiv preprint arXiv:0704.3653. Retrieved from http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1032046
Personal Archiving Outreach and Instruction
Saving (Scanning) Your Digital Memories workshops
Personal Archiving Day
For more info, see:http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/personalarchiving/
What are the critical challenges for our users?
Mellon Personal Scholarly Archiving Grant2012-2013Ethnographic study of Penn State
faculty in sciences, education, humanities
Identifying critical literacies surrounding personal scholarly library management
Highlighting the role of liaison librarians in helping users build, manage, and mine their personal collections
What are the critical challenges for our users?
What are the critical challenges for your users?
How can you best help your users manage their personal information collections?
Your Turn…
Tips and Tools
3 – 2 - 13 copies of every important
file—more copies are better
Save at least two copies ondifferent types of storage
media
Save one copy in a different location from where you are
What will remain of your work in 50 / 100 / 200 years?
What should remain?
How can we preserve the important stuff?
Your Turn…
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/download/
Twitter: http://www.allmytweets.net/WordPress:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/Blogger: Settings - Other - Blog Tools -
Export blogDelicious: Settings – Export/Back-upDiigo: http://www.diigo.com/tools/export
Want to retrieve your information?
Think Up - http://thinkupapp.com/ (allows you to curate all your social media activity)
IFTTT - http://ifttt.com/ (aggregates writing/ blogging into one site)
Other Tools
Contact Us
Laura Pearle
VennConsultants
lpearle.wordpress.com
@vennlibrarian
Ellysa Stern Cahoy
Penn State University Libraries
bit.ly/ellysa
