UK: New research project to explore the nation’s digital memories
+ ‘Digital Lives’ sets to understand how we use computers in our daily lives to capture personal moments and memories
+ Led by the British Library with University College London and Bristol University
+ All creators and users of digital information invited to fill in an online survey
From diaries, letters, jottings and photo albums to blogging, emailing, tweeting and flickr-ing, the digital revolution has affected enormously the ways in which we record our personal lives. These largely born-digital collections will become invaluable in years to come for researchers – from biographers and historians to literary critics and scientists. Currently nobody knows for sure what is happening to this material and whether it can be made available in the future. ‘Digital Lives’ aims to begin to answer these questions.
Source: The British Library