Digital meets Culture https://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/article/is-the-future-of-preservation-cloudy/ Export date: Sun Jan 24 5:48:59 2021 / +0000 GMT |
Is the Future of Preservation Cloudy?![]() ![]() An interesting seminar is going to be held at the Conference Center in November 2012: Is the Future of Preservation Cloudy? The proverbial shoebox full of pictures in the attic no longer exists. Today, photographs are produced digitally and are often never printed. While for a period the shoebox full of printed photographs was replaced by a shoebox full of CDs and then DVDs, more and more these pictures are being stored in the cloud. Once in the cloud, it is anybody's guess where they are really being stored; it is clear, though, they are not in a shoebox. Personal photographs are just the tip of the iceberg. Wherever we look, an increasing fraction of the world's data is born digital, and much of this data must be preserved and kept usable for decades or longer. Consumers are keeping a wide range of data – movies and photographs, letters, and personal records – in electronic-only form. Organizational data is also being created and maintained electronically. Health care, government, media and entertainment, and engineering and scientific data all must be preserved for periods of time that can range from decades to ''forever.'' Just as personal photographs have moved from analog formats to digital formats stored in the home and then to digital formats stored in the cloud, this data controlled by organizations is taking the same migratory path from analog records to digital records stored in a traditional data center and now into the cloud. Thus, these two trends – the need to preserve ever increasing amounts of data and the movement of data to clouds – are intertwined. Preservation requires that digital data continue to be useful and available when it is needed, in spite of obsolescence at any layer of the technology stack. Clouds inherently abstract away a great deal of information that is required to manage information over time. While neither preservation nor cloud computing is a solved problem, addressing issues of long-term management and obsolescence in a fully abstracted environment presents a large number of novel research questions; beyond just raising new issues to address, the elasticity and flexibility of clouds also potentially enables new approaches to preservation. This seminar will bring together leaders from the library, preservation, provenance, and cloud communities to examine these research questions and opportunities. Specifically, we envision discussing topics such as the following:
By bringing together experts from diverse fields to discuss this intersection of preservation and cloud, we aim to:
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Organizers: Erik Elmroth (University of Umeå, SE) Michael Factor (IBM - Haifa, IL) Ethan Miller (University of California - Santa Cruz, US) Margo Seltzer (Harvard University, US) For support, please contact Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik GmbH Oktavie-Allee 66687 Wadern Germany ph +49 (0) 68 71/905 0 Fax +49 (0) 68 71/905 133 lzi(at)dagstuhl.de Website: http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=12472 |