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How well do you know your digital stuff? | Mini-Quiz

How likely is it that your digital treasures will survive into the future? The answer depends on lots of things, including how much stuff...

Personal Digital Archiving | Series Wrap-Up

Over the last 20ish weeks, I have been doing a Deep Dive Series into how personal archiving can be an act of love (both of self-love, and...

5 Reasons Why Personal Digital Collections are a Labour of Love

Just a quick one this week because - you know - I'm writing my MA dissertation, and everything. Here are some musings on the theme of...

When did people start writing about personal digital collections? | more articles from UK, Canada &

Last week I shared a list of 7 Australian articles that were some of the earliest to talk about personal digital collections. I'm...

Caring for our Digital Belongings | according to people in 2006!

These are some thoughts I had after reading: Marshall, Catherine C., Sara Bly, and Francoise Brun-Cottan. ‘The Long Term Fate of Our...

Chatting about digital treasures | Behind the scenes!

As I mentioned in my last article, I have been having some really interesting conversations lately about how people live their digital...

Looking into other people's digital spaces | What do people care about?

Last weekend, I had some really interesting conversations with some really lovely people, about their digital stuff! I really enjoyed...

12 things to do when you have created something fabulous

I'm all about caring for your digital treasure. And I've chatted before about what I mean by "digital treasure". So this week, I want to...

Making Things | Digital vs Non-digital Creation?

Last week, I wrote about different types of creation, and why it matters who created something. (It matters because: Ownership). I want...

Digital Lives | 2008 - 2018

10 years ago, the British Library (and a bunch of other UK institutions) did a huge project called the Digital Lives Research Project....