Lesson Plan
Personal Digital Archiving
Considering so many of us work and live in a born-digital world (word processors, email, photos on our phone, etc.), I developed this workshop to help art and design students gain intellectual control of their many digital files and surrogates of their work. This presentation follows the website, Personal Digital Archiving: How to create a digital archive for your work, thesis, and career by Cristina Fontánez Rodríguez.
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Details
The slides were redesigned to follow the website Personal Digital Archiving: How to create a digital archive for your work, thesis, and career, by Cristina Fontánez Rodríguez.
Designed to be roughly ~1.5 hours.
Slideshow with introduction to various points of digital archiving and organization.
Intended audience: Graduate and undergraduate students.
Should be customized after meeting with the professor or organizer to learn more about the audience.
Session leader is encouraged to incorporate an active learning activity.
Workshop Handouts
The following handouts might be helpful for attendees.
With this instructional handout, learn how to embed important data about your work in large quantities of files using Adobe Bridge.
This handout explains how to rename a large quantity of files using Adobe Bridge.
Learn best practices for file naming, which is crucial for file corruption prevention among other organizational objectives.