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TIPPING POINT: Have we gone past the point where we can handle the Digital Preservation Deluge?

Stokes, Paul; Colbron, Karen

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iPRES2023_submission_6883.pdf

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/121078

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Title
TIPPING POINT: Have we gone past the point where we can handle the Digital Preservation Deluge?
Author(s)
  • Stokes, Paul
  • Colbron, Karen
Issue Date
2023
Keyword(s)
  • Data doomsday
  • Tipping point
  • Data deluge
Date of Ingest
2023-11-01T17:23:23-05:00
Abstract
The world today is faced with an insurmountable problem. There is too much digital “stuff” in existence for us to even handle in any sort of meaningful way, let alone curate and preserve. We have reached (or perhaps even gone beyond) the data processing tipping point. There is an enormous amount of data already in existence and unimaginably more being generated every day. This panel proposal (and accompanying poster) is intended to explore this doomsday data scenario with a group of experts in the field of Digital Preservation and related disciplines with a view to deciding if it is true and what can be done about it.
Series/Report Name or Number
iPRES 2023
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Copyright held by the author(s). The text of this paper is published under a CC BY-SA license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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