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

[Megan Winget]

Thanks!

I'll look through this sometime in the near future!

I'm walking home again, if you'd like to join me,

--M

On Apr 8, 2009, at 3:56 PM, Kathleen O'Riordan wrote:

> 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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