Personal Digtial Photo Archives

Annotations by Crystal Gleason

Coombs, K. (2007, July 1). Digital promise and peril: Karen Coombs says saving born digital content requires a unified look at staffing. Library Journal, 132(12). Retrieved from [1]

This article discusses the lack of trained staff in libraries that can deal with the amount of digital born data such as emails, photographs, and blog posts. The author emphasizes the need to preserve digital photographs and the need to train library staff to do this.

Cunningham, S., Masoodian, M., Adams, A. (2010). Privacy Issues for online personal photograph collections. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, 5(2), 26-40. doi:10.4067/S0718-18762010000200003.

This article discusses the potential security risks and privacy issues involved with storing personal digital information such as photographs, online. It brings to light the lack of knowledge about privacy issues in the general public and considerations for privacy mechanisms. The article discusses several interviews, observations and investigations relating to online photograph collections and privacy issues.

Cushing, A. (2010). Highlighting the archives perspective in the personal digital archiving discussion. Library Hi Tech, 28(2), 301 - 312. Retrieved from [2]

This articles discusses the available literature on personal digital archiving, specifically a study conducted by Marshall, and how it is related to the archiving process. The author also discusses personal information management, which includes managing digital photographs, and how one researcher applied archiving practices to this issue.

Dalziell, T, & Genoni, P. (2015). Google comes to Life: researching digital photographic archives. Convergence, (21)1. Retrieved from [3]

This is an essay discussing the Google Life photo project and specific photos in the project. The authors also discuss the process of searching for photos and keyword use along with the various meanings of the photographs. The main idea of the essay is that the Google photo project is a digital archive of value. Google photos is a place many people use to store their digital photographs.

Gu¨ldenpfennig, F. & Fitzpatrick, G. (2015, February). Personal digital archives on mobile phones with MEO. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 19(2). 445-461.

This article describes a study of a created software program called media objects (MEO) designed to make the process of taking digital photographs and organize them in a manageable and meaningful way. The program was designed to allow users to great memories using digital content. The outcome of this study was that this type of software could be useful in the future but will need to be revisited taking participants wishes into consideration. This article discusses the process of taking digital photographs and deciding what to keep.

Hawkins, D. (2014, July) Personal digital archiving. Information Today, 16(7).

This article is a summary of information presented at a conference on personal digital archiving held in 2014 at the Indiana State Library. The author discusses the state of personal digital archiving, He also discuss the issues in the UK and possible ideas for outreach in the area of personal digital archiving.

Marshall, C. (2008) Rethinking personal digital archiving, part 1: four challenges from the field. D-Lib Magazine, 14(3/4). Retrieved from [4]

This article discusses the myths and issues consumers have when saving their digital information. This includes digital photographs. The author outline the common misconceptions of people about their digital information such as photographs. She also goes into challenges for personal digital archiving.

Marshall, C. (2008) Rethinking personal digital archiving, part 2: implications for services, applications, and institutions. D-Lib Magazine, 14(3/4). Retrieved from [5]

This article outlines guidelines and reasons for preserving digital information including digital photographs. The author addresses the complications for personal digital archives and how to resolve them. She discusses the strategies necessary to alleviate some of the burden of personal archiving of photos, along with other forms of digital data.

Supheakmungkol, S., Toshinori, N., Tadashi. M., Wataru, K. (2008). On the design and exploitation of user's personal and public information for semantic personal digital photograph annotation. Advances in Multimedia, vol. 2008. Retrieved from[6]

This article discusses the need for metadata in personal digital photos and the lack of ability to organize and search for digital photos. It outlines specifications for naming files, searching for photos and storing the digital images. The author also software programs that will aid in automated annotation of photos that will ease searching. It also discusses using keywords attached to photos to make them easier to retrieve.

Williams, P., Leighton, J., Rowland, I. (2009). The personal curation of digital objects: a lifecycle approach. Aslib Proceedings, 61(4).

This paper is a study on personal digital archives. It discusses how individuals create, store and manage their own digital data, including digital images. The authors evaluate how people create and manage their digital data. They also propose a framework individuals can use to create and maintain their own personal digital archives.