Identifying Individual and Institutional Motivations in Personal Digital Archiving

Condron, Melody

doi:10.1515/pdtc-2018-0032

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“…For example, the literature identified that information is personal in several senses such as information about a person, directed towards a or from a person, or information recording or representing one's activities and experiences (Jones et al, 2016(Jones et al, , 2017. Practices determine the longevity of items (Lush, 2014), but many factors influence PIM practices such as mood (Whittaker and Massey, 2020), motivation (Condron, 2017(Condron, , 2019, characteristics of digital possession (Cushing, 2013) or memory (Halilovich, 2014;Petrelli and Whittaker, 2010). Those factors influence the complexity of managing and preserving personal information that can be of value for the family and family archive (Woodham et al, 2017).…”

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Cultural information needs of long-settled immigrants, their descendants and family members: use of collective and personal information sources about the home country

Krtalić

2021

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PurposeThis paper presents findings from a study that explored why and how long-settled immigrants, their descendants and family members seek and use information about their country of origin and how they manage personal information about their cultural heritage legacy.Design/methodology/approach15 semi-structured interviews were conducted with participants from the Croatian community in New Zealand.FindingsThe main findings reveal two categories of information needs related to a home country: internally motivated and externally motivated. Information is accessed through a network of family and friends, cultural societies and embassies. These information sources are perceived as reliable and trustworthy, and able to offer an interpretation of information along with access to information. The findings highlight the value of personal collections as information sources and the impact of personal information management practices on preserving and sharing information about one's cultural heritage.Originality/valueThis article contributes to the discussion about information needs and practices of immigrant communities by offering arguments that focus on (1) long-settled immigrants, their descendants and family members, and (2) seeking information about home country culture and heritage, and (3) the role of personal collections and personal information management in maintaining personal cultural heritage. The results of this study may be of use to libraries, archives and museums in designing and offering their services to expatriates of their country and immigrants in their country, and to the wider information management sector developing services in personal information management.

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Cultural information needs of long-settled immigrants, their descendants and family members: use of collective and personal information sources about the home country

Krtalić

2021

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“…However, Sinn et al (2017) find that backups and duplications are the main PA strategies to reduce the risk and heighten the safety of public's digital content, and general technology efficacy and the awareness of the importance of personal records appeared to influence PA practices. Besides, Condron (2019) identified the similarities and differences in motivation and approach between individual and institutional practices and perspectives in PDA, and Han (2019) believe that it is necessary to strengthen PDA support in community-based mobile digitisation projects. Bass (2013) thinks that archivists should cultivate new and more effective means of archiving personal digital records by utilising new and better hardware and software applications.…”

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Archival knowledge in the field of personal archiving: an exploratory study based on grounded theory

Huang

Nie

Zhao

2020

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to propose a theoretical framework to illustrate the archival knowledge applied by archivists in their personal archiving (PA) and the mechanism of the application of archival knowledge in their PA.Design/methodology/approachThe grounded theory methodology was adopted. For data collection, in-depth interviews were conducted with 21 archivists in China. Data analysis was performed using the open coding, axial coding and selective coding to organise the archival knowledge composition of PA and develops the awareness-knowledge-action (AKA) integration model of archival knowledge application in the field of PA, according to the principles of the grounded theory.FindingsThe archival knowledge involved in the field of PA comprises four principal categories: documentation, arrangement, preservation and appraisal. Three interactive factors involved in archivists' archival knowledge application in the field of PA behaviour: awareness, knowledge and action, which form a pattern of awareness leading, knowledge guidance and action innovation, and archivists' PA practice is flexible and innovative. The paper underscored that it is need to improve archival literacy among general public.Originality/valueThe study constructs a theoretical framework to identify the specialised archival knowledge and skills of PA which is able to provide solutions for non-specialist PA and develops an AKA model to explain the interaction relationships between awareness, knowledge and action in the field of PA.

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“…However, two recent terms were used widely in literature. These terms included as PDA (Becker and Nogues, 2012; Condron, 2019; Cushing, 2010; Marshall, 2008; Redwine, 2015; Sinn et al, 2017; Xiangjun, 2018; Zhao et al, 2019) or Personal Digital Information Archiving (Krtalić et al, 2016; Marčetić, 2015), and long-term retrieval (Whittaker et al, 2010).…”

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Modeling the process of personal digital archiving through ubiquitous and desktop devices: A systematic review

Ali

Warraich

2021

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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The purpose of this study is to explore Personal Digital Archiving, and its practices, reasons, and challenges in desktop and in ubiquitous environment such as desktop computers, laptops, mobile phones or smartphones, tablets, and cloud services. Moreover, it is also aimed to develop a model of Personal Digital Archiving process for desktop and ubiquitous devices. This study used Preferred Reporting Items for the Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis guidelines for searching and devising, and inclusion and exclusion criteria. The Search was conducted from selected repositories, databases, and core journals, potentially containing studies related with Personal Digital Archiving. Consequently, 21 studies were included through identification, screening, eligibility, and inclusion of studies process. It was found that people used multiple devices such as mobile phones or smartphones along with other devices. It was established that people had also used cloud services with different devices including computers and smartphones or tablets for Personal Digital Archiving. Five major categories of individuals’ Personal Digital Archiving practices, that is, backup, replication or duplication, reorganizing and updating, cleaning or removing, and migration of information were found. Moreover, emotional motives, technological causes, alternative access, easy retrieval, and task completion were the reasons to adopt Personal Digital Archiving. On the basis of findings of selected studies, researchers developed a four steps model of Personal Digital Archiving process, consisting of initiation, identification, action, and evaluation constructs. Personal Digital Archiving challenges were also identified such as the individuals had to face through the use of desktop and ubiquitous devices including technical, fragmented and overloaded information, lack of training and expertise, and psychological and miscellaneous challenges. Personal Digital Archiving process model is based on the extracted data from studies published worldwide, and it is useful for both desktop and ubiquitous devices with reference to Personal Information Management context. The findings of the study will be helpful for software designers and android application developers to design and develop users’ centered Personal Information Management software.

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Identifying Individual and Institutional Motivations in Personal Digital Archiving

Cited by 16 publications

References 6 publications

Cultural information needs of long-settled immigrants, their descendants and family members: use of collective and personal information sources about the home country

Cultural information needs of long-settled immigrants, their descendants and family members: use of collective and personal information sources about the home country

Archival knowledge in the field of personal archiving: an exploratory study based on grounded theory

Modeling the process of personal digital archiving through ubiquitous and desktop devices: A systematic review

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