Let’s jump ahead 50 years. Imagine your grandchildren are rummaging around in your attic, looking through old boxes and trunks. They discover laptops, hard drives wrapped in cloth, DVDs, and maybe even a real antique: A floppy disk.
What will become of all the data you’ve stored on these devices? Will any of them still work? Will your heirs have any devices that will allow them to read these treasures?
Here’s the really big question: Have you ever once even stopped to think about this scenario? If you’re like me, the answer is a resounding, “Nope.” For all but a few, the issue of how to maintain personal digital archives is nowhere on the radar.
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However, all is not lost. There are some strategies for storing your digital archives. But you’ll have to do a lot of work. You will need to start thinking like a librarian and become an active curator of your files. That means relentlessly organizing, labeling and tagging, backing up and deleting.
Source: San Jose Mercury News
Hat Tip: Digital Curation Blog
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