Digital Preservation and Environmental Impact

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This short webinar which will explore how your organization's decisions around digital preservation can affect its environmental impact. It will bring together a number of speakers from a range of organizations, each of whom will offer a different perspective on the challenge of environmentally-friendly digital preservation. We shall explore how environmental impact is measured, and consider what steps an organization might take to monitor and reduce its carbon footprint. We’ll also use this event to launch the DPC’s own Climate Action Plan, and to announce the release of a new Guidance Note on the topic of environmental impact (authored by Eira Tansey, founder of Memory Rising).

Speakers

The webinar programme is currently under development but will include speakers from Arkivum, CLOCKSS, DPC , and Netherlands Sound & Vision

Registration

Registration is open to all, with no charge for DPC Members or DPC Supporters and £250 for non-Members. Full Members may register 5 attendees and Associate Members and Supporters may register 1 attendee for this event. DPC members and supporters can claim their free place by entering the promotional code DPCMEMBER. Any additional attendees can attend for a charge of £250.

DPC events rely on having minimum numbers to run successfully and effectively. Low numbers may mean events may not be viable and will need to be canceled, so please check that you can attend before booking.

If you register for this event and find that you can no longer attend, you are welcome to send a colleague in your place. If you need to cancel, please email eleanor.oleary@dpconline.org with the event name. If cancelling please try to provide more than 48 hours notice before the scheduled event time, otherwise a cancellation fee of £50 may apply.

DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy

The DPC Community is guided by the values set out in our Strategic Plan and aims to be respectful, welcoming, inclusive and transparent. We encourage diversity in all its forms and are committed to being accessible to everyone who wishes to engage with the topic of digital preservation, whilst remaining technology and vendor neutral. We ask all those who are part of this community to be positive, accepting, and sensitive to the needs and feelings of others in alignment with our DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy.