New research project to explore the nation's digital memories
* 'Digital Lives' sets to understand how we use computers in our daily lives to capture personal moments and memories
* Led by the British Library with University College London and Bristol University
* All creators and users of digital information invited to fill in an online survey
Digital Lives is a pathfinding research project that is setting out to understand how individuals retain and manage their personal collections of computerised information. From diaries, letters, jottings and photo albums to blogging, emailing, tweeting and flickr-ing, the digital revolution has affected enormously the ways in which we record our personal lives.
These largely born- digital collections will become invaluable in years to come for researchers - from biographers and historians to literary critics and scientists. Currently nobody knows for
sure what is happening to this material and whether it can be made available in the future. Digital Lives aims to begin to answer these questions.
These largely born- digital collections will become invaluable in years to come for researchers - from biographers and historians to literary critics and scientists. Currently nobody knows for
sure what is happening to this material and whether it can be made available in the future. Digital Lives aims to begin to answer these questions.
There are two ways in which people can participate and help the 'Digital Lives' project:
* By completing an online survey at http://www.bl.uk/digitallivessurvey.html which looks
at the way people currently use their computers to capture their digital lives
* By sending in details of technologies and online services relevant for capturing, retaining and sharing digital information to digital.lives@bl.uk
More information can be found at the Digital Lives website: http://www.bl.uk/digital-lives/
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