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To have and to hold: exploring the personal archive

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Joseph 'Jofish' Kaye,

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CHI '06: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 275 - 284

https://doi.org/10.1145/1124772.1124814

Published: 22 April 2006 Publication History

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The personal archive is not only about efficient storage and retrieval of information. This paper describes a study of forty-eight academics and the techniques and tools they use to manage their digital and material archiving of papers, emails, documents, internet bookmarks, correspondence, and other artifacts. We present two sets of results: we first discuss rationales behind subjects' archiving, which go beyond information retrieval to include creating a legacy, sharing resources, confronting fears and anxieties, and identity construction. We then show how these rationales were mapped into our subjects' physical, social and electronic spaces, and discuss implications for development of digital tools that allow for personal archiving.

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