Helping Members of the Community Manage Their Digital Lives: Developing a Personal Digital Archiving Workshop. Nathan Brown. D-Lib Magazine. May 2015.
It is estimated that 93
percent of all new information is born digital. Because of the amount of digital material and the ease with which it can be deleted or lost, digital materials are very much at risk. Because libraries and librarians
have the means and knowledge to care for digital materials, the responsibility to educate library users about personal digital
archiving should fall on library shoulders. One way this can be done is by hosting a personal digital archiving workshop. Some questions to ask in creating such a workshop would be:
- Who is the audience?
- What kinds of digital materials do people have?
- how do people store their digital belongings now?
- what motivates them to maintain personal digital information?
- What resources are available?
- Identify what you have and where it is located.
- Decide what you want to keep
- Organize what you have and how it can be identified
- Save the digital materials and manage what you have saved
It may also be worthwhile in discussing digital estate planning and designating a "digital executor" which should be identified in a legal will.
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