An interesting blogpost, written by Ross Spencer on the website of the Open Preservation Foundation with the main question: “How much does me and my one computer doing digital preservation tasks at home impact the environment?” https://openpreservation.org/blogs/monitoring-carbon-emissions-at-home/
The storage and use of digital heritage objects produce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Cultural heritage organizations can take several measures into consideration in order to diminish these CO2 emissions. However, how much CO2 do storage and use produce and what measures could have (the most) effect? In 2021 we examined the CO2 impact and possible measures on the basis of a case study: the Delpher platform, hosted by the KB, The National Lib...
Your heritage website might unknowingly be a major data consumer - and therefore a source of CO2 emissions. When you consider how much energy a heavy webpage requires per visit and multiply that by the number of visitors, you immediately see why online sustainability is so important. Discover how you can change this. For example, by reducing image sizes and switching to green hosting. These and other practical tips can be found in the guide '4...