Amelia Abreu and Mark Matienzo's talk at the Personal Digital Archiving Conference on February 25, 2011, at the Internet Archive.

1. Archival Sense-making: Personal digital archiving as an iteration Amelia Abreu, iSchool, University of Washington Mark Matienzo, Yale University LibrarY PDA 2011, February 25, 2011

3. Examine the contexts of archival sensemaking in the contemporary media environment

4. Examine the limits of sensemakingin personal digital archiving

6. Archivalization as conscious or unconscious decision process whether something is worth archiving

8. collections and acts of collecting

9. Archival Genres

10. Genres of Personal Digital Archives

11. Limits of sensemaking as applied to Personal Digital Archives

12. The {un|SUB}conscious archival act

13. Archival sensemaking as a life-long process

14. Conceptualizing products & processes in Archival sensemaking

15. Incorporating appraisal

16. Digital Geographies Re-considering Appraisal Conclusion

17. THANK YOU http://ameliaabreu.com/ http://matienzo.org/