Course Details
Online
This two-hour live online class will explore the concerns of our growing personal digital collections, discuss the preservation challenges and outline techniques to preserve our own digital treasures and records.
For many of us, our correspondence, diaries, research, family photographs, oral histories, and personal expressions are created and saved in a variety of digital forms on multiple devices and platforms. That makes them easy to tote with us and access now, but will cause tremendous challenges when we think about accessing our digital objects in the future. Unlike the paper materials of the past that might begin to show signs of deterioration in thirty, fifty or one hundred years - digital materials may only have three-five years before we have difficultly accessing the content, not to mention handing them down to future generations!
Each of us needs to develop strategies for saving, accessing and migrating our personal digital materials. This live online class will examine some of the challenges of personal digital preservation and techniques that may be used to create a plan for long term access to digital materials.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this class, students will be able to:
Identify their valued personal digital collections
Recognize hazards to digital collections
Create processes to preserve personal and family digital material
Understand the ongoing challenges of long-term access to digital collections
| Course Format: | Online |
| Address: | N/A |
| Duration: | 2 Hours |
| Audience Category: | The class is designed for all of us who have created digital objects and are concerned about the preservation of these materials for themselves and others. |
| Level: | Beginner |
| Instructor(s): | Alix Bentrud |
| Maximum Attendees: | N/A |
| Cost Range: | $75 - $100 |
| Provider: | LYRASIS |
| Sponsored by: | National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access |
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This information is provided as a convenience for informational purposes only; it does not constitute an endorsement by the Library of Congress.
