Save the Bits!

Today, 1010, has been designated by the Council of State Archivists as Electronic Records Day to raise awareness about the challenges in preserving our digital resources. This gives me the opportunity to share with you some information from my professional life that can be useful if you are trying to preserve your own digital memories.

Image from the Library of Congress' National Digital Preservation Program.

How to Preserve Your Own Digital Materials: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/personalarchiving/
Handouts from the North Carolina State Archives: http://ncrecords.wordpress.com/2012/10/10/happy-electronic-records-day/
Born Digital for Those Born Analog: http://hangingtogether.org/?p=2158
Personal Digital Archives: http://personaldigitalarchives.blogspot.com/
The Practical Archivist: http://practicalarchivist.com/ 
Caring for your Family Archives: http://www.archives.gov/preservation/family-archives/

Check in with the Day of Digital Archives (10/12, this year): http://dayofdigitalarchives.blogspot.com/

If you are an archivist, librarian, or dedicated family historian and want to explore digital archives further, you can check out the Archivists and Records Managers Blog links provided by L'Archivista (scroll down).

And just for fun: a video of the earliest surviving copyrighted motion picture, the Edison Kinetoscopic Record of Fred Ott's Sneeze