I, Digital: Personal Collections in the Digital Age

摘要

Traditionally professional approaches to the management of archives and records have differentiated between organisational/institutional/"official" records and personal and manuscript collections with thinking about the former being significantly more influential in the development of archives and records management practice generally. This book clearly attempts to redress the balance a little, locating the challenges of capturing, preserving and managing personal digital collections within a longer tradition of approaches to the management records and archives created and held by individuals. Opportunities for a democratising practice which give more voice to the individual (and to a wider range of individuals) within an otherwise overwhelmingly institutional and organisational focus of the majority of archival collections underpins some of the calls for greater interest in the personal but it is not only this impulse which motivates interest and concern - indeed many of the personal digital records collected will continue to be from the same elite groups who already find their ways into our repositories.