Speaker
Ms
Danah Tonne
(KIT)
Description
The long-term preservation of information is a crucial requirement for
scientific progress in every research community. In former times hammer
and chisel were the tools of choice to preserve the cultural heritage,
nowadays the digital world introduces additional and novel challenges.
Obsolete formats and technologies, a quick decay of storage media or power
outages are just a few examples of threats that need to be faced in order
to ensure sustainable access to valuable data.
This talk will give an introduction into the broad field of data
preservation and its basic principles. Various examples from the arts and
humanities community will illustrate how heterogeneous preservation
demands are and how they can be supported by a research infrastructure.
Primary author
Ms
Danah Tonne
(KIT)
