The Complete Guide to Personal Digital Archiving helps to break down archival concepts and best practices into teachable solutions. Whether it’s a researcher needing to cull their most important email correspondence, or an empty-nester transferring home movies and photographs to more easily shared and mixed digital formats, this book will show you how to offer assistance.
Key Features
- Explanations of common terms in plain language
- Quick, non-technical solutions to the most frequent user requests
- Guidance on how to archive Facebook posts, baby announcements, bar mitzvahs, weddings, and other life events
- Methods for capturing analog video from obsolete physical carriers, like MiniDV
- Proven workflows for public facing transfer stations
- Ways to help seniors plan digital estates as heirlooms and memory objects
- A look at the 3-2-1 approach to backing up files
- Perspective on balancing core library values with the business goals of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and other dominant platforms
- Additional resources and bibliographies for digging deep
Additional Information
Featuring expert contributors working in a variety of contexts, this resource will help you help your users take charge of their personal materials.
