Excavation
Prerequisite#
CCurrently, we support part of Google Takeout and Facebook data. You need to prepare the applicable data from Google Takeout or Facebook. See the full and up-to-date list on each takeout page.
Sieve, sort & store#
macOS#
After you downloaded the .json file of your data paste the following into your command line tool to excavate a specific file
make sure to point to the right directory of the file, for example if you stored the file in your "downloads" folder use
The data is now stored in the database.
Assemble#
To uncover the true value of your personal archives the digital data needs to be processed and aggregated. See the Visualization chapter for how to proceed and display the extracted data!