The Personal Analytics of My Life by Stephen Wolfram

The Personal Analytics of My Life
March 8, 2012

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytics-of-my-life/

Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Wolfram|Alpha, and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research.
This is his blog post about his own (quantitative) exploration of his e-mail collection with Mathematica.
(Blog post provides more personal feeling when talking about a personal life in my opinion.)

Related New York Times Article:
What 23 Years of E-Mail May Say About You
By ANNE EISENBERG, Published: April 7, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/business/mining-our-personal-data-for-our-own-good.html?_r=0

Bequeathing the Keys to Your Digital Afterlife: GOOGLE

Bequeathing the Keys to Your Digital Afterlife - Google

New York Times Article
By ANNE EISENBERG
Published: May 25, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/technology/estate-planning-is-important-for-your-online-assets-too.html?emc=eta1&_r=0

"Google has a program called Inactive Account Manager": Well, at least, following social interests.

However, overall, we need a more innovative approach to treating digital materials NOT "like a boxful of jewelry."

Related Article on BBC

12 April 2013
Google launches tool to determine data use after death

"Google will allow users to decide what happens to their data after they die or become inactive online, the first major company to deal with the sensitive issue."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22119227

What To Do Online When a Loved One Dies

What To Do Online When a Loved One Dies
By Geoffrey A. Fowler, WSJ, January 4, 2013, 10:35 PM
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/01/04/what-to-do-online-when-a-loved-one-dies/

Continuing social interests in what to do for digital documents after one's death.

Data on a deceased person’s account is extremely vulnerable since its ownership shifts to a service provider and it is hard to identify if any privacy is violated or not.

Forwarded to me by Pat Galloway

Digital Savant: Grieving increasingly being expressed and supported online

Forwarded by my Advisor, Dr. Pat Galloway


"Digital Savant: Grieving increasingly being expressed and supported online: As the time we spend online increases, social mores around online bereavement are changing"
http://www.statesman.com/news/technology/grieving-increasingly-being-expressed-and-supporte/nTPwQ/

Yes, indeed.

Cyberwills: More web users seeking to protect 'online legacies' in death

My iSchool colleague Lorrie Dong forwarded the following interesting article:

Cyberwills: More web users seeking to protect 'online legacies' in death

By Telegraph Reporters
11:30AM GMT 18 Nov 2012

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9686104/Cyberwills-More-web-users-seeking-to-protect-online-legacies-in-death.html

Why everyone has to be a historian in the digital age

Why everyone has to be a historian in the digital age
By Katie Beck and Charlene Pele
BBC World News America

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/world_news_america/8999128.stm

This article is not far from the idea of "citizen archivists."

Piecing Together 'The World's Largest Jigsaw Puzzle'
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/08/162369606/piecing-together-the-worlds-largest-jigsaw-puzzle

The story makes me to think of what archives are for.

Hoping To Pass On Your iTunes Collection? Good Luck

http://www.npr.org/2012/09/04/160562390/hoping-to-pass-on-your-itunes-collection-good-luck

Interesting piece from the National Public Radio discussing legal issues related to digital possessions: Robert Siegel talks with Jonathan Zittrain, co-director of Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, about what happens to your iTunes library when you pass away.

The Day of Digital Archives is making a return: October 12, 2012

Kindly pointed to me by Catherine Hobbs, the Literary Archivist (English-language) at Library and Archives Canada.

Interesting project blog where you can hear stories from archivists and preservation professionals who want to "help raise awareness of digital archives among both users and managers."

http://dayofdigitalarchives.blogspot.com/

Image and Spatial Data Analysis Group

Image and Spatial Data Analysis Group: Digital Preservation
http://isda.ncsa.illinois.edu/drupal/category/keywords/digital-preservation

Interesting site covering issues related to digital preservation overall, especially with a strong tech-centered approach and tools