2. About Me Author of Your Digital Afterlife Author and editor at TheDigitalBeyond.com User Experience Designer by trade BS and MS (2012) in Information Science at UNC-Chapel Hill
4. Legacy Noun an amount of money or property left to someone in a will. a thing handed down by a predecessor : the legacy of centuries of neglect. Adjective Computing: denoting software or hardware that has been superseded but is difficult to replace because of its wide use.
11. Identity Preservation Objects are passed to heirs as an act of identity preservation. Objects are often imbued with meaning. The story Why it’s important Unruh (1983) Price, Arnould, & Curasi (2000)
25. Digital Estate Planning A repository of accounts and credentials that’s inaccessible by heirs until the account owner passes away. Verified by death certificate, secure codes or by trusted notifiers. Solves the issues of access and ownership.
26. Digital Estate Planning Legacy Locker Entrustet DataInherit www.thedigitalbeyond.com/online-services-list/
27. Site Policy Grant access to heirs Provide content (but not access) to heirs Delete accounts Memorialize accounts
33. Awareness Is Low Only 30% of Americans have a will Digital estate planning companies report low signups It’s like backing up, few actually do it Benign neglect
34. As Archivists… How can we imbue digital objects with meaning? How can we design personal archives so that a lifetime of digital content can be accessible and meaningful to future generations?
35. How Do We… Ease the transition from the creator to new curators? Honor and respect the wishes of the deceased? Maintain the personal value of the collection?
37. Design Principles Ensure awareness and access Wishes of the deceased Communicate personal value Tackle quantity Provide communal experience.
38. Awareness and Access It’s not always easy to find digital objects. Heirs are necessarily sophisticated technology users. PDA systems should provide a means of awareness and access.
39. Wishes How can we record and enforce the wishes of the deceased? Family members and other “trusted” caretakers often have other ideas.
40. Communicate Value Why did the creator believe this object was important? We already have some metadata, but how can we passively capture meaning?
41. Tackle Quantity Will caretakers of personal archives be overwhelmed by quantity? One important object is often as valuable 10,000 objects.
42. Communal Experience Digital objects move us away from experiencing them together in person. Can we attach comments and other conversations to our digital objects?
