This document outlines the steps to create a personal digitization plan called "The Memory of Me Project" to preserve important personal information. It involves auditing physical and digital files, sorting them by type and theme, and storing them in an organized digital framework with metadata. The plan also includes ongoing maintenance like regular backups and adjustments as technologies change over time. The goal is to digitally archive important memories and stories for future generations.

1. Personal Digitisation Plan
The Memory of Me Project

2. Questions
• What do I need to do?
• What is the purpose of this project?
• What are the steps?
• What is the vision?
• What will I need?
• How long will it take?
• How will it look?
• Why do I want to do this?

3. Steps
• Answer the questions
• Create a vision and purpose
• Work out the steps in the plan
• Plot a timeline
• Simultaneously create a maintenance and upkeep
plan
• Do some research to find what others have done

4. Considerations
• Research
• Audit what I have
– Physical
– Digital
• Create a workflow
• Find suitable repositories and platforms
• Think about file formats and file sizes
• Think about the catalogue descriptors to adopt
• Think about the use of tags
• Think about future storage and access

5. Content
• Photos both physical and digital
• Websites
• Writing both physical and digital
• Audio and video files?
• Artwork both physical and digital
• Projects – photos of house design projects
• What are the stories?
– e.g. Memory of the World project
– e.g. Memory of Australia project

6. Audit
• Create a spreadsheet of all of the items to be collected
• Sort into categories of media type
– Photos
– Artwork
– Writing
• Sort into categories of themes
– Family
– Travel
– Work
– Projects
– Creative expression
– Student work

7. Framework
• Set up the framework that will be adopted
– Online wiki?
– The cloud?
– Back up files on pc, disks and separate hard drive
– Hierarchy of ‘containers’.
– Links, descriptors, tags and metadata
– Physical representations
– E.g. Personal ePortfolio on Delicious

8. Process
• Gathering
• Identifying
• Sorting
• Weeding
• Editing
• Resorting
• Add metadata and file names
• Placing into piles ready for storage

9. The work
• Get down to the work
– Start scanning
– Saving
– Sorting
– Editing
– Labeling
– Listing
– Storing

10. Maintenance
• Set up a maintenance schedule
– New additions to the repository
– Review work flows as necessary
– Test file stability of items
– Test file stability of repositories
– Back up regularly
– Relocate as new technologies emerge

11. Story telling
• Tell the story
– Arrange files and photos in a way that tells the stories within
– Keep for prosperity
– What is the legacy?

12. The Memory of Me
Created by Susan Bentley© 2013