Digital Lives Project

Digital Lives is a path finding research project that is setting out
to understand how individuals retain and manage their personal
collections of computerised information - everything from digital
photographs and videos to favourite podcasts and sentimental email
messages - and how these digital collections can best be captured in
the first place and preserved in the long term, perhaps for family
history, biographical or other purposes.

The project is led by Dr Jeremy Leighton John and colleagues at the
British Library who, together with experts from UCL and Bristol
University, are researching the challenges that lie ahead as more and
more of our memories and documentary witnesses exist in electronic form.

We would like to invite you to take part in our research by completing
an online survey. This should take no more than ten minutes of your
time and it will provide us with crucial information that will benefit
the work of the British Library and other archives enormously as we
plan for what is fast becoming a largely digital world.

If you would like to take part in the survey, please click here:
http://tinyurl.com/5wtwgm

If you would like to enter our Prize Draw and stand a chance of
winning £200 in British Library gift vouchers (drawn at random and
with no further obligation) you can register your interest at the end
of the survey.

Please note that all responses are strictly confidential. No
individuals will be named when we report our findings, and the
information collected will only be presented in an aggregated form.

You will not be contacted again as a result of completing this survey.

If you have any questions, or are concerned about the bona fides of
this survey, please email me at University College London by clicking
here: mailto:i.rowlands@ucl.ac.uk

Dr Ian Rowlands (UCL School of Library, Archive & Information Studies)