Seeds for Action: In Focus – Dilemmas and Decisions for Environmentally Responsible Digital Collections
This session is for you if you are interested in:
- Understanding the issues and challenges around the carbon footprint of the born-digital assets in your collections
- Making informed decisions around managing your existing digital assets
- Exploring practical steps you can take now to form new behaviours
Everything we do is digital these days, including our collections. The session will focus on born-digital assets in our collections. This includes everything created digitally, from audio and video material, to Office documents and emails. Preserving this material for the long-term is important, but this contributes to the organisation’s carbon footprint. How might we identify and manage these assets so they might remain accessible for future generations?
Join Simon Wilson, a registered archivist with nearly 30 years’ experience of working in archives, libraries and museums. Simon has a special interest in digital preservation and collections management and is a Carbon Literacy facilitator,
What will the session involve?
This workshop is a chance to learn with Carbon Literacy course graduates and others who are tackling similar issues. There will be a lightning talk from our invited speaker, and time to connect with others. During the session we will collectively explore:
- What are the challenges to taking action and how are we overcoming them?
- What is making a positive difference and having the biggest impact in our organisations?
- What data we might gather to support this work and further advocacy?
- What useful templates, tools and top tips can we share with each other?
Everyone is welcome, from beginners to experts. There will be opportunities to join the conversation and to share your experiences or you are welcome to simply listen to others.