Personal Digitisation Plan

The Memory of Me Project

Questions

• What do I need to do?• What is the purpose of this project?• What are the steps?• What is the vision?• What will I need?• How long will it take?• How will it look?• Why do I want to do this?

Steps

• Answer the questions• Create a vision and purpose• Work out the steps in the plan• Plot a timeline• Simultaneously create a maintenance and upkeep

plan• Do some research to find what others have done

Considerations

• Research• Audit what I have

– Physical – Digital

• Create a workflow• Find suitable repositories and platforms• Think about file formats and file sizes• Think about the catalogue descriptors to adopt• Think about the use of tags• Think about future storage and access

Content

• Photos both physical and digital• Websites• Writing both physical and digital• Audio and video files?• Artwork both physical and digital• Projects – photos of house design projects• What are the stories?

– e.g. Memory of the World project– e.g. Memory of Australia project

Audit

• Create a spreadsheet of all of the items to be collected• Sort into categories of media type

– Photos– Artwork– Writing

• Sort into categories of themes– Family– Travel– Work– Projects– Creative expression– Student work

Framework

• Set up the framework that will be adopted– Online wiki?– The cloud?– Back up files on pc, disks and separate hard drive– Hierarchy of ‘containers’.– Links, descriptors, tags and metadata– Physical representations– E.g. Personal ePortfolio on Delicious

Process

• Gathering• Identifying• Sorting• Weeding• Editing• Resorting • Add metadata and file names• Placing into piles ready for storage

The work

• Get down to the work– Start scanning– Saving– Sorting– Editing– Labeling– Listing– Storing

Maintenance

• Set up a maintenance schedule– New additions to the repository– Review work flows as necessary– Test file stability of items– Test file stability of repositories– Back up regularly– Relocate as new technologies emerge

Story telling

• Tell the story– Arrange files and photos in a way that tells the stories within– Keep for prosperity– What is the legacy?

The Memory of Me

Created by Susan Bentley© 2013