LibGuides: Digital Humanities Tools: Personal Digital Archiving

Guides/Tutorials

The Digital Beyond
"The Digital Beyond is a blog about your digital existence and what happens to it after your death. We’re the go-to source for archival, cultural, legal and technical insights to help you predict and plan for the future of your online content"
How to Preserve your Digital Materials
How to guide for preserving photographs, audio, video, email, websites, ans personal recordings form the library of congress.
Managing Research Assets
Where do I start?
Step by step process of how to organized your personal collection and create your personal archive from library of congress.

Introduction

We create a large amount of online content via our research and writing, emails, official business, transactions, social media interactions, and photographs. Therefore, it is important to learn how to manage and properly store these digital prints of ourselves.

The library of Congress recommends these key strategies:

Identify and Organize our digital content: Add names files and photographs for easy access.
Select and decide which content needs safekeeping and archiving.
Organize our assets: Give them descriptive filenames, organize them into a logical file structure, and write down your organizational scheme.
Make lots of copies and have those copies in multiple locations.

Personal Digital Archiving Strategies.pdf. (MIT libraries)

Instruction and Reference Librarian

Catherine Hartup