Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Digital Lives project is investigating personal digital collections.
Here's an excerpt from the About Digital Lives page:
Digital Lives is a major research project focusing on personal digital collections and their relationship with research repositories. It brings together expert curators and practitioners in digital preservation, digital manuscripts, literary collections, web-archiving, history of science, and oral history from within the British Library (one of the world’s leading research libraries) with researchers in the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at University College London, and The Centre for Information Technology and Law at the University of Bristol.
The Project's proposal provides detailed information about it's research methods.
