[Air-L] archiving writers' e-work (fwd)

[Kathleen O'Riordan]

apologies if this has already been mentioned but the project team at the
Digital Lives project at the British Library has been dealing with these
issues for some time - and some simulator software development for
dealing with hardware and software - i.e. dead digital formats - is in
part driven by this kind of archive.

http://www.bl.uk/digital-lives/

k


Quoting Peter Timusk <ptimusk at sympatico.ca>:

> 
> On 8-Apr-09, at 1:07 PM, jcu wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone heard of someone bequeathing
> > their 'cloud' of personal info to a loved one/
> > family member? In the world of computer forensics,
> > can a family member legally gain access to/take ownership
> > of a deceased family members' mobile me accounts
> > (the contents of it), for example?
> >
> > Is anyone researching this aspect of e-writing
> 
> 
> The question concerns me based on a news item some years back on  
> archiving famous person's emails at some famous library in Britain
> and  
> the incompatibility of older email software.
> 
> I also thought of this as a possible new business going into a dead 
> 
> person's computer and presenting their family with a package of  
> stuff's like their writings.
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