Real Versus Digital: Sustainability optimization for cultural heritage preservation in national libraries

真实与数字：国家图书馆文化遗产保护的可持续性优化

• 批准号: AH/Z000041/1
• 负责人: Jonathan Chenoweth
• 金额: $ 20.63万
• 依托单位: University of Surrey
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FZ000041%2F1
• 关键词: Real; Versus; Digital; Sustainability; optimization

According to the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions "National libraries are the guardians of a country's national cultural heritage. They collect, preserve and make available a country's history to all of its citizens and open a window on that country to people all over the world." National libraries have been running projects to digitize their collections for years. Due to rising energy use and cost of digital infrastructures, there is increasing pressure on libraries to reduce their energy use and emissions whilst ensuring maximum usability and accessibility. From a climate perspective, avoiding parallel operation of physical and digital infrastructures seems advisable. However, neither a physical-only nor digital-only scenario is feasible because the demand for digital media is increasing, while physical media must be kept due to legal, academic and cultural requirements. It is thus necessary to find an optimal mix of infrastructures that is economically viable, meets legal, academic and cultural requirements, simplifies user access, minimizes energy use and emissions. The ReVerDi project applies the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment approach to assess these infrastructures from an environmental, social-cultural and economic perspective. It thereby provides the scientific basis required for national libraries and other GLAM institutions to create future-proof infrastructures. The consortium consists of three research groups and three national libraries from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Country teams consisting of a research group and a library are responsible for project implementation in the respective country, while each research group is responsible for a transnational focus topic (environmental, social-cultural, economic). The three research groups have complementary backgrounds (natural sciences, engineering, social sciences, humanities) and expertise (digital technologies, LCA, cultural heritage), which provide a strong foundation.

根据国际图书馆协会和机构联合会的说法，“国家图书馆是一个国家国家文化遗产的监护人。他们收集，保存并为其所有公民提供了一个国家的历史，并向全世界的人们打开了该国的窗户。”国家图书馆多年来一直在运行项目来数字化馆藏。由于能源使用的上升和数字基础设施的成本，库的压力越来越大，以减少其能源使用和排放，同时确保最大的可用性和可访问性。从气候的角度来看，避免物理和数字基础架构的并行运行似乎是必不可少的。但是，由于数字媒体的需求在增加，而由于法律，学术和文化要求，因此对数字媒体的需求不断增加，因此对数字媒体的需求不断增加，因此不可行。因此，有必要找到在经济上可行，满足法律，学术和文化要求的基础设施的最佳组合，简化用户访问，最大程度地减少能源使用和排放。 Reverdi项目采用生命周期可持续性评估方法来从环境，社会文化和经济的角度评估这些基础设施。因此，它为国家图书馆和其他华丽的机构提供了创建未来的基础设施所需的科学基础。该财团由三个研究小组和三个来自英国，荷兰和瑞士的国家图书馆组成。由研究小组和图书馆组成的国家团队负责各自国家的项目实施，而每个研究小组都负责跨国重点主题（环境，社会文化，经济）。这三个研究小组具有互补的背景（自然科学，工程，社会科学，人文科学）和专业知识（数字技术，LCA，文化遗产），这提供了坚实的基础。