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| Type | Conference or Workshop Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Published in Proceedings | Yes |
| Title | Going Paperless with Electronic Data Safes: Information Ecology Fit and Challenges |
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| Presentation Type | paper |
| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Event Title | International Conference on Information Systems |
| Event Type | conference |
| Event Location | Dublin |
| Event Start Date | December 11 - 2016 |
| Event End Date | December 14 - 2016 |
| Place of Publication | Dublin |
| Publisher | AIS Electronic Library |
| Abstract Text | In private households, once received paper-based documents are increasingly substituted by electronic documents. In order to “get organized”, an individual nowadays needs to oversee a plethora of digital and physical information items stored at various locations. As a technological solution, cloud-based storage services such as an Electronic Data Safe (EDS) emerge as a home for all digital valuables. In this paper, we analyze how such an EDS fits into an individual’s information ecology by drawing upon the results of a qualitative interview study with 39 users of three different EDS services. We develop a typology of the content that is kept safe in an EDS, reflect upon the motivations and upon an EDS’s role with respect to other cloud-based storage services individuals are using. The challenges of maintaining a digital, personal archive are depicted and “data value zones” are introduced as a sensitizing concept to reflect upon problematic areas. |
| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:13970 |
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| Keywords | electronic data safes, information ecology, data value zones, personal information management, information fragmentation |