The DPC are establishing a new task force for 2025 with a focus on calculating and mitigating the carbon footprint of their digital preservation activities. The terms of reference for this new group can be found here. This group will meet monthly for a period of a year to develop and communicate good practices and standards for how to calculate the carbon footprint of their organization’s digital preservation activities.
The group is intended to provide a supportive forum for making contacts, building relationships, learning from peers, overcoming roadblocks and obstacles, and sharing successes and challenges. At the end of the year the group will disseminate their learnings through events, publications, and a series of worked case studies so the whole community can benefit from the work that has been carried out.
This new Task Force will start in January 2025. Meetings will be chaired by Alicia Wise and hosted on the DPC’s Zoom platform.
We are seeking task force members who are actively working on calculating the carbon emissions from their digital preservation activities and who will have time to devote to sharing and discussing this work in monthly group meetings throughout 2025. In order to keep meetings focused and productive we would like to keep the number of participants to 10-15 people. We know there are many more members interested in this topic so we intend to openly share task force outputs and findings at the end of 2025.
If you would like to join this new task force, please contact Jenny.Mitcham@dpconline.org by 18th December to express your interest. Please include a brief note of any work you are involved in to calculate the carbon emissions of your digital preservation activities.