Students and faculty from a variety of disciplines are increasingly building corpora of personal research images from archives, fieldwork, and other collections. The guides below provide starting points and resources to support the full lifecycle of maintaining personal research archives – from editing, cataloging, copyright, and platforms.
Maintaining your personal archive as it builds can help organize the files and metadata for increasingly larger personal collections of images, audio, and video files. By ensuring that you are starting with a strong cataloging structure and maintaining high-quality files, it will make both finding materials and research easier. For more information on how the VRC can support your personal archiving endeavors, please refer to the VRC’s Personal Archiving Collaboration Policy.
Personal Archiving Workshops
The VRC hosts a variety of workshops on creating and managing personal research archives. Please click this link to view recordings and access slides and other resources.
Ethical Images and Citations
Web Archiving
See the VRC's guide to tools and resources for archiving web pages.
Storage and Backup
See the file storage and backup page for information on storing images, metadata, and archiving software.