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- Title
A PIM Perspective: Leveraging Personal Information Management Research in the Archiving of Personal Digital Records.
- Authors
BASS, JORDAN
- Abstract
This paper investigates the often oversimplified personal digital archiving environment to expose the many nuances in the context of the creation and use of records by individuals in the digital era. It specifically examines personal digital recordkeeping strategies, appraisal decisions, and identifications of value, as well as digital preservation practices from the perspective of Personal Information Management (PIM) studies through a review of pertinent literature published outside traditional archival journals and monographs. Through explorations of how people create, collect, organize, maintain, and (re)access digital information, PIM research complements our existing knowledge about personal digital records and reveals additional information about these materials heretofore undisclosed by archival scholarship. This paper suggests that a genuine understanding of the processes of records mediation occurring in the precustodial environment of personal digital archives is integral to the discovery and exploitation of their requisite provenancial information.
- Subjects
PERSONAL archives; ARCHIVES collection management; ELECTRONIC records management; DIGITAL preservation; PERSONAL information management
- Publication
Archivaria, 2013, Issue 75, p49
- ISSN
0318-6954
- Publication type
Article