Keep Your Stuff! How to save your digital files for the future – October 2, 2024

Panel event for the general public on how to protect your personal digital files (family photos, medical records, etc) for the long term

Wednesday October 2nd at 6pm
Digital Archivists of Philadelphia (DAP) and Free Library of Philadelphia
1901 Vine St, Philadelphia, PA 19103
Free
In-person
More info: https://libwww.freelibrary.org/calendar/event/141749, https://digitalarchivistsphilly.wordpress.com, and https://groups.google.com/g/digital-archivists-of-philadelphia

3 speakers will cover the topics the digitization (family photos, scanning, dpi standards, file formats, etc.), obsolete media (Overview of popular formats, how do you get data off of them?
What are their preservation risks?, physical examples to be shown, etc), and personal records management (how to safely store and store medical records, financial records, etc.).