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Life and Times of Personal Information Management: Memento, Memory, or Memento Mori?
Time:
Sunday, 29/Oct/2023:
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location:Epernay, 1st Floor, Novotel
Presentations
ID: 241 / [Single Presentation of ID 241]: 1 Panels 90 minutes Confirmation 1: I/we acknowledge that all session authors/presenters have read and agreed to the ASIS&T Annual Meeting Policies Topics: Information and Knowledge Management (data and information management; personal information management; knowledge management) Keywords: Life Histories, Technology Across a Lifespan, Digital Afterlife, Materiality of Memories, Personal Archives Management
Life and Times of Personal Information Management: Memento, Memory, or Memento Mori?
1University of Technology Sydney, Australia; 2University of Greenwich, UK; 3East Carolina University, USA
This panel/round-table discussion will explore contemporary challenges within our everyday personal information management practices when it comes to how we select, store, and prepare our life histories for ourselves and others. With all the affordances and access provided by digital technologies, we collect information across a variety of platforms, modes, and mediums, be they documents, text files, images, or audio. Not all of this information is meaningful to us in the long-term, but nevertheless, some of our most valuable information does get entangled in this chaos. Issues discussed include maintaining, organizing, and accessing our information, not to mention how others access what we want to pass on to them. Challenges include technological obsolescence, privacy concerns, cultural and generational changes, family dynamics, and even memory loss as we age. We will also explore solutions and propose and ‘idea box’ for how we can prepare for the future of our personal information, such as creating and implementing information legacy plans, digitization, storage, and access permissions.
