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The environmental impact of Europeana’s digital services
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Inspiration: Digital Cleanup Day movement Our digital files, photos, videos, apps, etc, all create a digital carbon footprint. The Digital Cleanup Day encourages people worldwide to do some ‘spring cleaning’ of our digital trash, that is, the duplicates that we forget about, the apps we don’t use, the files we don’t need. The environmental cost of data is growing in parallel with the digital transformation of the world around us. We can each do our bit to reduce our data carbon footprint. Find out more at the Digital Cleanup Day homepage https://www.digitalcleanupday.org/ |
The carbon footprint of convening the sector
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As part of Europeana’s 2019 and 2020 annual conferences, we assessed their environmental impact as physical and digital conferences respectively. You can read more about each impact assessment on Europeana Pro but here we share our approach and methodology. We might think that a digital conference has no environmental impact - after all, there is no travel. But this is not the case. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we held Europeana 2020 online and calculated what the scale of its carbon footprint was likely to be. We compared this against the carbon footprint of air travel to Europeana 2019. In all of this, we had to develop our own methodologies, so each finding is an estimate and over time the methodology is likely to improve.
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