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

Stokes, Paul; Colbron, Karen

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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

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

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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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