@inproceedings{20cb08da28824bb6ba791b3d28ac5ef0,
title = "To have and to hold: Exploring the personal archive",
abstract = "The personal archive is not only about efficient storage and retrieval of information. This paper describes a study of forty-eight academics and the techniques and tools they use to manage their digital and material archiving of papers, emails, documents, internet bookmarks, correspondence, and other artifacts. We present two sets of results: we first discuss rationales behind subjects' archiving, which go beyond information retrieval to include creating a legacy, sharing resources, confronting fears and anxieties, and identity construction. We then show how these rationales were mapped into our subjects' physical, social and electronic spaces, and discuss implications for development of digital tools that allow for personal archiving.",
keywords = "Archiving, Bookmarks, Email, Ethnography, Filing, Identity",
author = "Joseph Kaye and Janet Vertesi and Shari Avery and Allan Dafoe and Shay David and Lisa Onaga and Ivan Rosero and Trevor Pinch",
year = "2006",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "1595931783",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
pages = "275--284",
booktitle = "CHI 2006",
note = "CHI 2006: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems ; Conference date: 22-04-2006 Through 27-04-2006",
}