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Find Your Ancestors: Saving Your Digital Stuff

Event Type: Adult Program
Age Group(s): All Ages, Adults, Seniors
Date: 11/16/2019
Start Time: 2:00 PM
End Time: 3:30 PM
Description:
 Presented in partnership with Badger Talks, we welcome Ms. Dorothea Salo as our first Find Your Ancestors speaker of the 2019-2020 season.

About the program:

Most family scrapbooks are priceless. Very few things are worth more. With technology making a more prominent role in people's lives, families have been saving keepsakes and photos digitally. Ms. Dorothea Salo will help families make sure they don't lose their precious stuff. In her talk "Saving Your Digital Stuff: Your Family History," she will talk about "how to ensure your family’s digital history doesn’t disappear in a cloud of pixels!"

Dorothea Salo teaches about digital information in the iSchool at UW-Madison: everything from online privacy and security to relational-database design. She has also built “Recover Analog and Digital Data” (RADD) to save personal, family, and community history in Wisconsin from decaying 20th-century media such as VHS tapes and floppy disks. Her professional interests include copyright, scholarly communication, and digital preservation.

Location: Meeting Room C