a list of resources about personal digital preservation for authors and creators including very recent (2012, 2011) documents and open source options most likely useful to content creators.
Marshall, C.C., Bly, S. and Brun-Cottan, F. (2006). Retrieved 13 July, 2006. Personal Archiving, how home computer users are creating, receiving and archiving their data.
Marshall, C.C. (2006). Personal Archiving. discusses the importance of the long term storage of personal digital information with regard to seven issues and then outlines some technological developments that may go some way to address these issues. The is
UpLib is a digital “filing cabinet”, designed for personal use. It allows you to save Web pages, email, photos, scanned bills, receipts, and other documents — even music — for later retrieval. It uses a highly visual interface, presenting saved information as thumbnails of the actual document instead of lines of text.
Setting up ThinkUp takes a couple of minutes if you know how to install a web app. Once you're running, there's lots you can do!. e.g., Archive all of your social data for your Twitter and Facebook accounts in your own database and make it easy to search, sort and filter.
Do you want to archive tweets from your conference? Maybe archive trending hashtags or keywords for historical or analysis purposes? Maybe save your own personal tweets? Twapper Keeper is here to help! How does it work? 1. Create a new Twapper Keeper archive based upon hashtag, keyword, or person 2. Tell your friends about the archive 3. Read, track, export, and analyze as much as you want!