Personal Digital Archiving: Workshop - iPRES 2016 - Swiss National Library, Bern

Personal Digital Archiving (PDA) is a relatively recent topic in the landscape of digital preservation and new questions/challenges arise as devices, tools, and apps to capture and share information seem to appear every day. Individuals and community organizations can be overwhelmed with photos, email messages, texts, letters, and a wide array of other materials. This workshop seeks to discuss ways in which cultural heritage institutions such as libraries, archives, and museums, along with university researchers, and software and systems developers in this domain, can help individuals and groups come to grips with their digital collections and preserve content that is important to their lives, organizations, communities, and heritage in trustworthy, long-term ways. Very few initiatives are on-going worldwide on this topic, one of the most relevant, the PDA conference in the US, is presented to bring the discussion to Europe. Cultural heritage organizations that are building trustworthy digital repositories along with tool builders and software/system developers have much to offer in this arena but roles and responsibilities as well as incentives and resources must be established. At the most fundamental stage, awareness needs to be raised among all stakeholders and guidelines to help individuals and organizations need to be developed, maintained, and disseminated. Of prime concern at this juncture is how public institutions such as libraries and archives can help community organizations and individuals