Archive for March 2014 (19 posts)

Personal Digital Archiving 2014

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pda-icons_280The fifth annual Personal Digital Archiving conference is on April 10-11 and you can still register online until tomorrow, April 1.

This conference attracts a variety of information-technology professionals with a range of digital-preservation interests, mainly oriented toward the needs of individuals rather than the digital collections of cultural institutions. Topics include – but are not limited to — family photographs and home movies; personal health and financial data; social network data; genealogy; email, blogs and web pages; and the academic works of students and professors. You can see videos and presentations from past PDA conferences, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Here is the program for Personal Digital Archiving 2014. We hope to see you there.

  • The Social Life of Personal Information,
    Keynote Speaker: Andrea Copeland, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis;
  • Defining the Personal in Digital Archiving and Communities
    Jenny Bunn, University College London, UK
  • Personal Archiving as a Gateway to Data Literacy
    Amy Elizabeth Neeser, University of Minnesota Libraries
  • Blueprint for Preserving Design Records, Panel Discussion
  • LIGHTNING TALKS I
    • Finding Roots, Gems, and Inspiration: Understanding the Ultimate Uses of Digital Materials
      Santi Thompson, University of Houston Libraries; Michele Reilly, Central Washington University
    • Using Picasa to its Fullest Potential to Ensure Long-Term Management of Digital Photos
      Richard R. Bernier, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    • Opportunities and Challenges in Accessioning Personal Digital Archives
      Arjun Sabharwal, University of Toledo Libraries, Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections
    • Public Libraries and Personal Digital Archiving: Outreach Lessons Learned
      Michael Ashenfelder, Library of Congress
  • NEH Funding & the Stewardship of Personal Digital Archives
    Perry Collins, Office of Digital Humanities
  • Clear as Glass: Controlling the Data Generated by Wearable Technology
    Nick Krabbenhoeft, Independent Researcher
  • Personal Archiving Within the Scholarly Workflow: Zotero as Connector for Collecting Faculty Work
    Ellysa Stern Cahoy and Smiljana Antonijevic, Penn State University
  • Preserving Your Digital Photos Using Free or Low-Cost Software
    David Riecks, PhotoMetadata.org, ControlledVocabulary.com
  • POSTER SESSION
    • Archiving Family History Past and Present: The Wabash Valley Visions & Voices Digital Memory Project
      Cinda May, Indiana State University Libraries, Special Collections
    • Demonstrating Archivematica’s Ingest Functionality
      Courtney Mumma, Artefactual Systems, Inc.
    • Designing a Personal & Family Archive for the 21st Century
      Denim Smith, Lifemap
    • Longaccess: Your Data, Safe, for Long
      Panayotis Vryonis, Longaccess
    • Project Backup: Archiving “Naptown”
      Rodney Freeman, Indianapolis Public Library
    • The National Digital Stewardship Alliance
      Michael Ashenfelder, Library of Congress
  • Zoink.It
  • Lessons Learned from the Activists’ Guide to Archiving Video
    Yvonne Ng, WITNESS
  • Collaborative Data Management and Provenance as Core Pillars of Personal Digital Curation
    Kerstin Kleese-Van Dam, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • Family Archive as a Narrative Organization
    Pekka Uotila, Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences
  • LIGHTNING TALKS II
    • XFR STN Collective? Guerrilla Archiving of Obsolete Artist Material
      Julia Kim, New York University, Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program
    • How Well are Interior Alaskan Athabascans Served by Archives?
      Stacey Baldridge, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Native Language Archive
    • Software Collecting: A Case Study
      Zach Vowell, California Polytechnic State Universiry, Robert E. Kennedy Library
    • Let’s Talk Digital: Communicating Digital Preservation Workflows to Donors
      Carly Dearborn, Purdue University Libraries, Special Collections
    • Appraising Email Archives with ePADD
      Peter Chan, Stanford University Libraries
  • Kurt, Jimi and Lots of Heart: One Biographer’s Research Methods
    Keynote Speaker: Charles R. Cross, music historian, author & biographer;
  • Trends in Student Management of Personal Records: A Window on Temporal Change
    Patricia Galloway, School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin
  • There’s No Such Thing As Personal Archiving
    Lori Kendall, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Personal Digital Archiving: The Basics of Scanning

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Although the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program and the National Digital Stewardship Alliance focus on digital preservation and access, many of the personal digital archiving questions that the general public ask us are about scanning. Though scanning is a separate issue from digital preservation, scanning does generate digital files that need to be […]

Where are the Born-Digital Archives Test Data Sets?

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By Butch Lazorchak and Trevor Owens We’ve talked in the past on the Signal on the need more applied research in digital preservation and stewardship. This is a key issue addressed by the 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship, which dives in a little deeper to suggest that there’s a great need to strengthen the […]

“Digital Culture is Mass Culture”: An interview with Digital Conservator Dragan Espenschied

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At the intersection of digital preservation, art conservation and folklore you can find many of Dragan Espenschied’s projects. After receiving feedback and input from Dragan for a recent post on interfaces to digital collections and geocities I heard that he is now stepping into the role of digital conservator at Rhizome. To that end, I’m […]

Nominations Now Open for the 2014 NDSA Innovation Awards

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 The National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group is proud to open the nominations for the 2014 NDSA Innovation Awards. As a diverse membership group with a shared commitment to digital preservation, the NDSA understands the importance of innovation and risk-taking in developing and supporting a broad range of successful digital preservation activities. These awards […]

A Regional NDSA?

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The following is a guest post by Kim Schroeder, a lecturer at the Wayne State University School of Library and Information Science. Several years ago before the glory of the annual NDSA conference, professionals across America were seeking more digital curation literature and professional contacts.  Basic questions like ‘what is the first step in digital […]

Things to Know About Personal Digital Archiving 2014

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Personal Digital Archiving 2014 will be held at the Indiana State Library in Indianapolis, Indiana, April 10-11, 2014.  This is THE conference that raises awareness among individuals, public institutions and private companies engaged in the creation, preservation and ongoing use of personal digital content.  A key overarching topic will be how libraries, archives and other […]