The Society of Georgia Archivists <http://soga.org/>, the Atlanta Chapter
of ARMA International <http://atlantaarma.com/> and the Georgia Library
Association <http://gla.georgialibraries.org/> have collaborated on a
curriculum for a personal digital archiving workshop that addresses the
basic problems and solutions. Among the steps they outline, they emphasize
the need to make files “findable.”

To that end they devised an activity called “Find the Person in the
Personal Digital Archive” (the activity data set and all the workshop
materials are free and available for download
<http://soga.org/involvement/advocacy/professional>, reuse and remixing).
The premise is simple and the game is fun but it drives home an important
message about organizing your files. The producers created a folder filled
with files and sub-folders — messy, disorganized files; pointless
sub-folders; mis-named files; highly personal files mixed with business
files; encrypted files and obsolete file formats, many sourced from the Open
Preservation Foundation’s Format Corpus
<https://github.com/openpreserve/format-corpus> — and they invite people to
participate in a forensics activity, to look through all the files and
directories and try to piece together some information about the owner of
the files.

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