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Preserving Your Personal Digital Photos
An ALCTS Webinar
Bill LeFurgy, [email protected]
Library of Congress
April 26, 2012
Hosted by ALCTS, the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services
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This Presentation: How to Preserve Photographs
Already in Digital Form
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Bits and Atoms: Strong Associations…
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Bits and Atoms: Big Differences!
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A Traditional Way to Keep Memories: The Shoebox
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Reliable, Long Lasting
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Photos At Risk!
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When Digital Files are Lost, This Turns Into…
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…Something Like This
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We Can Preserve Digital Memories!
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Vigilance Starts Before Taking Pictures
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Camera Settings: File Format
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Camera Settings: Image Quality
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Camera Settings: Metadata
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After Taking Pictures
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Preservation: The Big Picture
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The Time & Effort is up to You
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4 Tips For Personal Digital Archiving
Identify where you have digital files
Decide which files are most important
Organize the selected files
Make copies and store them in different
places
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Tip 1: Identify Where You Have Digital Photos
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Good Practice: Think About Where Your Most
Important Photographs Are
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Tip 2: Decide Which Photos are Most Important
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Selection Options
Pick a Few Files Pick Batches of
Files Pick Everything
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Good Practice: Weed Your Photographs
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Tip 3: Organize What You Select
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Put Photographs into a Folder System
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Good Practice: Describe Your Files
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Good Practice: Have a Hard Copy File Inventory
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Tip 4: Make Copies, Store in Different Places
Copy 1
Copy 2
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Good Practice: Use Different Storage Tech for
Individual Copies
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Good Practice: Store Copies with
File Inventory
+
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Good Practice: Check Annually; Make New
Copies Every 5 Years
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Good Practice: Add New Files to Your Archive
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Tips Summary
Identify where you have digital photos
Decide which photos are most important
Organize the selected photos
Make copies and store them in different
places
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Library of Congress Resources
• Preserving Your Digital Memories, http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/personalarchiving
• Video: Why Digital Preservation is Important for You,
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/multimedia/videos/personalarchiving.html
@ndiipp
https://www.facebook.com/digitalpreservation
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Hosted by ALCTS, the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services
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Photo and Graphics Credits
Slide 1: Tourist lunch #1, by Ed Yourdan
Slide 2: Born Digital Photos, by wlef70; Taking a picture, by morbuto; Tourist Family, by fatedsnowfox
Slide 3: Love this sticker!, by keepitsurreal
Slide 4: digital disabled, by jasoneepink
Slide 5: Ersatz10 - Plug for atoms&bits, by kmardahl
Slide 6: Shoeboxes of love letters (packing for Brrrlin), by miss_yasmina
Slide 7: album 2, album 6, by docman; damaged family photo, by freeparking
Slide 8: L'evoluzione della specie, by aldoaldoz, by aldoaldoz ; Present, by S Baker; IMGP6028, by js.c; Cloud
drawing, by wlef70; Pulling a Face for PutPlace, by DBarefoot
Slide 9: IMG_0320-34, by Leah Greg
Slide 10: loopBack-error-file-not-found, by penguinmilitia
Slide 11: vigilance, by squishray
Slide12: Hipster Eris is checking her camera settings - Halloween 2011, by benchilda
Slide13: I shoot RAW, by jaredpolin
Slide 14: Camera Settings, by jrtnatov
Slide 15: Metadata, by Shira Golding http://www.flickr.com/photos/boojee/3743753784/
Slide 16: Inverted colors on iPhoto 6?, by Vedia
Slide 17: The Bigger Picture, by krossbow
Slide 18: 5/365, by SubvertAParadigm
Slide 19: Tips please, by olishaw
Slide 20: xpsd, richard binhammer;Computer PC Tower Desktop White Background DVD Burner Neon Fan
Green Blue Case Custom Home Build Control Pentiu, by jules:g; Olympus Camedia D-340R Digital Camera,
by Capt Kodak; icon, by NDIIPP
Slide 17: iPhone Famly Pictures, by wlef70
Slide 18: Eric pointing at screen-1, by akeg
Slide 19: Strawberry Picking, by adwriter; IMG_9748, majorbonnet; Strawberries, by Elizabeth Thomsen
Slide 20: Scotts Creek Family Trip, by tarale
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Photo and Graphics Credits
Slide 21: Alphabetized-Storage-System, by Claudiana2008
Slide 22: Sample file directory, by wlef70
Slide 23: epSos.de Flickr photostream, by wlef70
Slide 24: clipboard the, by Cookieater2009
Slide 25: store your copies far apart, by wlef70
Slide 26: Backup!, by scalespeeder; External Hard drive, by oliviermartins; USB memory stick,
Matti Mattila; cloud drawing, by wlef70
Slide 27: External Hard drive, by oliviermartins; clipboard the, by Cookieater2009
Slide 28: Litchenstein - Magnifying Glass, by alternativemeans; do duplicate, by wlef70
Slide 29: New Baby Sister, by Will-travel
Slide 30: 077, by AsGood
Slide 32: Question Mark Squircle, by Xurble