Computer users spend time every day interacting with digital files and folders, including
downloading, moving, naming, navigating to, searching for, sharing, and deleting them …

Personal information management (PIM) refers to the practice and the study of the activities
a person performs in order to acquire or create, store, organize, maintain, retrieve, use, and …

People are amassing larger and more diverse collections of digital things. The emergence of
Cloud computing has enabled people to move their personal files to online places, and …

Content generation on social network sites has been considered mainly from the
perspective of individuals interacting with social network contacts. Yet research has also …

Foundation is a preservation system for users' personal, digital artifacts. Foundation
preserves all of a user's data and its dependencies—fonts, programs, plugins, kernel, and …

The purpose of this study is to explore Personal Digital Archiving, and its practices, reasons,
and challenges in desktop and in ubiquitous environment such as desktop computers …

In recent years the Web has evolved substantially, transforming from a place where we
primarily find information to a place where we also leave, share and keep it. This presents a …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the associations of personal archiving
behaviors to factors and challenges that have been assumed to affect personal digital …

Personal digital archiving (PDA) is a relatively new field. As it has developed, two distinct
personas have emerged: the individual person, seeking to capture and archive their own or …

This article reports findings from a survey of 110 writers' personal digital archiving practices.
The authors found that most writers neglect digital archival concerns, and consequently …