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. http://1.usa.gov/1IUaXts http://1.usa.gov/1IUaXts+ -- Peterk Dallas, Tx Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org "The problems of our economy have occurred not as an outgrowth of laissez-faire, unbridled competition. They have occurred under the guidance of federal agencies, and under the umbrella of federal regulations." Senator Ted Kennedy, in defending trucking deregulation in 1978. List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]