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Routledge

The Complete Guide to Personal Digital Archiving

$118.95 inc GST $108.14 ex GST

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.

The book offers:

  • 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.

Featuring expert contributors working in a variety of contexts, this resource will help you help your users take charge of their personal materials.

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SKU: 9781783302666 - 88 Category: Ages: Adult Author: Brianna Marshall Page count: 304 ISBN: 9781783302666 Publish date: 30th November, 2017