Personal Digital Archaeology is a framework that seeks to help people capture, preserve and share their life stories, through sustainable learning material. It also seeks to help people rescue digital artifacts from obsolete formats. (Ex: VHS tapes and old computer disks, from items that are found in old boxes, or electronic media that are inherited from earlier generations.)

One goal of digital archaeology is to teach practical skills - another goal is to explore how to develop methods and tools to help rescue digital artifacts from obsolete formats, devices and operating systems; in essence, a personal digital forensics, ideally a partnership between computer museums, academic institutions, and partners to help make the knowledge available (ex: libraries). There are also opportunities to explore the development of tools to help with capturing and preserving "current" media.

See the free Digital Archaeology Booklet