To reorganise or to not reorganise?

A blog post from Jim Costin our Bridging the Digital Gap trainee - written for International Digital Preservation Day Last year, Jenny Mitcham, our former digital archivist, posted about saving your digital stuff from becoming files which are unable to be opened and how to manage a personal digital archive. What I’m going to be talking about is following on from that and a unique issue which we both came across recently when putting some new items into our digital archive. This phenomenon can be referred to as the folders within folders with folders... I’ll forgive you if you’ve never heard that term before. To put it simply, the phrase refers to having multiple folders nested within each other. The picture below will give you an example of it which was created just for this post: Now, whilst the example above shows how to not name your folders, it does show how easily you can end up nesting folders. Whilst this might be a very good way of organising data and knowing e