Sunday, July 27, 2008

JISC/CNI 08: Digital Lives Research Project: Ian Rowlands, University College London

How do we manage our personal digital collections?
Traditionally expressed ourselves on paper, which could form the basis of scholarly collections for major research libraries.

Although not a feature here what if the Hydra had been a blog?

Personas around how we use digital collections can be complex; mixing private and work. We are all also collaborating e.g commenting on someone else’s blog?
Will future historians find similar richness of collections?
We can consciously build a legacy for ourselves

Challenges of distributed information, version control, responsibility of individuals not organisations

Internet business cycle 7 weeks

PIM very under-researched – how do people organise, name files? Provide tools to help people organise these better - can we integrate these with our our traditional bibliographic management tools to provide a seamless user experience?

35 interviews with prominent musicians, academics, politicians.

Diversity across group
Email used PIM

Still live a hybrid world, use mixtures for version control etc.

New computer
52% migrated selectively
43% backed up to external
31% archived machine
17% did nothing.
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