Topics and features:

• Highlights the value of an intelligent and selective approach to personal multimedia preservation, involving managed forgetting and contextualized remembering
• Considers how a conceptual understanding of human memory function can be used to inspire the design of digital managed preservation and forgetting
• Discusses methods that endow computers with capabilities to understand digital content, in order to support intelligent preservation decisions
• Examines the assessment of the importance of information items, introducing the concepts of memory buoyancy and preservation value
• Reviews methods for preserving the context associated with a digital item, and for assessing how this context evolves over time
• Proposes a reference model for the Preserve-or-Forget (PoF) approach which is integrative, value-driven, brain-inspired, forgetful, and evolution-aware
• Describes the integration of preservation functionalities in a Personal Information Management (PIM) application
• Presents a user study on a photo selection task, using the results to design methods for automatically selecting important photos from personal collections