Long Term Fate of Our Digital Belongings: Toward a Service Model for Personal Archives
by Sara Bly, Francoise Brun-Cottan, Catherine C. Marshall
6 pages; PDF.

This paper provides useful background information on how home computer users are creating, receiving, and archiving their data. Based on the results of a survey, the study highlights the obstacles faced in PIM such as inconsistent and piecemeal approaches to the problem and lack of technical support. There is also the notion among home computer users that digital data is long lived, so minimal intervention is required. The conclusion is that unless a systematic approach to digital archiving is developed by personal computer users, personal digital data is in danger of being irrevocably lost. The information gathered will be used by the authors towards their goal of designing a Personal Information Management (PIM) system.

Published in Proceedings of IS&T Archiving 2006. (Ottawa, Canada, May 23-26, 2006), Society for Imaging Science and Technology, 2006.

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