Protecting Your Digital Legacy

Protecting Your Digital Legacy
Rotary of Burien/White Center 7/7/11
Nick Webb, Red Wire Services

Who Am I?

Scary Statistics
70% of small businesses in the U.S. experienced a data loss in 2009 due to technical or human disasters. - AMI 2009 U.S. SMB Annual Overview Study
For companies with a recovery plan in place, nearly half executed at least some of the plan over a one year period. — 2008 Continuity Insights and KPMG Advisory Services Business Continuity Management Benchmarking Report

Protecting Your Digital Legacy
How was data archived in the last?
Why these general methods fail for the next century
What we can do to protect digital assets for the next generation and beyond

Last CenturyThe Hudson River circa 1908. "RMS Lusitania passing Hoboken piers."

Last Century(to present)(microfiche microfilm)

Benign Neglect(Catherine C. Marshall -- Microsoft Research)

This CenturyLifespans

“Forced” Migration

Coping
Invest time upfront (when created)
Assign value to each image (High to Low)
Record pertinent information at time of capture (e.g. who is in the photo, who took it, when and where it was taken)
Delete photos as soon as it’s clear no value remains
Use “standard” software

Coping: Limit What’s Important
Store working and archive images separately
Revisit archive regularly and prune what is no longer valuable
Better solutions likely on the way… hold tight

Protect What’s Left
Stop-Gap: Consider high quality, professional prints for archiving
Store backup copy “in the cloud”, verify frequently
Maybe do both

Conclusion
Stuff happens more often than you may think
While rare, natural disasters do happen
(August 2000 Dallas Tornado)
Files are lost and accidentally deleted

Conclusion
Your best chance is to act soon
Only you can determine and manage what is important
You are ultimately responsible

If Nothing Else…
Classify the most important ~100 photos
Manage those wisely

Questions?

Contact
Nick Webb
Red Wire Services
nickw@redwireservices.com
206.829.8621
https://www.redwireservices.com
Twitter: @RedWireServices

References
Rethinking Personal Digital Archiving, Part 1
Four Challenges from the Field
Catherine C. Marshall
Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march08/marshall/03marshall-pt1.html
Rethinking Personal Digital Archiving, Part 2
Implications for Services, Applications, and Institutions
Catherine C. Marshall
Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march08/marshall/03marshall-pt2.html

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