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Online Personal Archiving: Preserving your record for the future

Online Personal Archiving: Preserving your record for the future. Laura Pearle Ellysa Stern Cahoy June 24, 2012. Online Personal Archiving. Your online (and offline footprint) The scholarly workflow and critical challenges Helping users manage personal collections

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Online Personal Archiving: Preserving your record for the future

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  1. Online Personal Archiving: Preserving your record for the future Laura Pearle Ellysa Stern Cahoy June 24, 2012

  2. Online Personal Archiving • Your online (and offline footprint) • The scholarly workflow and critical challenges • Helping users manage personal collections • Tips and tools for personal archiving

  3. My online persona 1996-2002 2002-2005 2005 - 2009 2009-?

  4. It’s not just about me…. Gone (or almost)… Institutional Memory…

  5. http://www.yesandspace.com.au/?p=2067

  6. Your Turn • What tools do you currently use? • Where does your collection reside? • What is your information workflow like?

  7. Helping our users

  8. Ellysa Stern Cahoy & Scott P. McDonald. Personal Scholarly Workflow.

  9. What are the critical challenges for our users? • Marshall’s user challenges • Accumulation • Distribution • Curation • Long-term access 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

  10. What are the critical challenges for our users? • Personal Archiving Outreach and Instruction • Saving (Scanning) Your Digital Memories workshops • Personal Archiving Day • For more info, see: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/personalarchiving/

  11. What are the critical challenges for our users? • Mellon Personal Scholarly Archiving Grant2012-2013 • Ethnographic 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

  12. Your Turn… What are the critical challenges for your users? How can you best help your users manage their personal information collections?

  13. Tips and Tools

  14. 3 – 2 - 1 3 copies of every important file— more copies are better Save at least two copies on different types of storage media Save one copy in a different location from where you are

  15. Your Turn… What will remain of your work in 50 / 100 / 200 years? What should remain?   How can we preserve the important stuff?

  16. Want to retrieve your information? • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/download/ • Twitter: http://www.allmytweets.net/ • WordPress: http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/ • Blogger: Settings - Other - Blog Tools - Export blog • Delicious: Settings – Export/Back-up • Diigo: http://www.diigo.com/tools/export

  17. Other Tools • Think Up - http://thinkupapp.com/ (allows you to curate all your social media activity) • IFTTT - http://ifttt.com/ (aggregates writing/ blogging into one site)

  18. Contact Us Laura Pearle VennConsultants lpearle@gmail.com lpearle.wordpress.com @vennlibrarian Ellysa Stern Cahoy Penn State University Libraries ellysa@gmail.com bit.ly/ellysa

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