Personal Digital Archiving: Issues for Libraries and a Summary of the PDA Conference
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Libraries pride themselves on their Special Collections – the unique sets of photographs, correspondence, diaries, home movies, and other documents that reside in only one library. Most Special Collection material comes from individuals or organizations, and today almost all of this material is born-digital. But there are not (as yet) well-established methods for ingesting and managing this type of material. This paper explores the emerging field of Personal Digital Archiving (PDA) which seeks to explore methods for organizing and managing born-digital personal collections of photos, email, calendars, diaries, and other documents. The paper reports back from the Spring 2015 PDA Conference on topics and tools likely to be of interest to Special Collections Librarians.
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Besser, H. (2014) The Digital-Age Challenges of Preserving "Personal" Content: Manuscript Drafts, Correspondence, & Social Movements, Proceedings of IS&T Archiving 2014, pages 42-46
http://www.imaging.org/ist/publications/reporter/articles/Rep29_3_ARCH2014_BESSER.pdf
Digital Diaspora Family Reunion (website and blog)
http://1world1family.me/
Personal Digital Archiving 2015 Conference Website (including PDFs of presentation slides)
http://personaldigitalarchiving.com/
Personal Digital Archiving 2015 (videos of presentations)
https://archive.org/details/PDA2015
Personal Digital Archiving 2015 Tweets (April 22-27, 2015 only; this hashtag was later re-used for another event)
https://twitter.com/hashtag/pda2015?src=hash