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民族文化遗产的守护者。它们收集、保存并向所有公民提供一个国家的历史，并向世界各地的人们打开一扇了解这个国家的窗口”。世界。”国家图书馆多年来一直在开展藏书数字化项目。由于能源使用和数字基础设施成本不断上升，图书馆面临越来越大的压力，需要减少能源使用和排放，同时确保最大的可用性和可访问性。从气候角度来看，避免物理和数字基础设施的并行运行似乎是明智的。然而，无论是纯物理还是纯数字场景都不可行，因为对数字媒体的需求不断增加，而出于法律、学术和文化要求，必须保留物理媒体。因此，有必要找到经济上可行、满足法律、学术和文化要求、简化用户访问、最大限度地减少能源使用和排放的基础设施的最佳组合。 ReVerDi 项目应用生命周期可持续性评估方法从环境、社会文化和经济角度评估这些基础设施。因此，它为国家图书馆和其他 GLAM 机构创建面向未来的基础设施提供了所需的科学基础。该联盟由来自英国、荷兰和瑞士的三个研究小组和三个国家图书馆组成。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，而每个研究小组负责一个跨国焦点主题（环境、社会文化、经济）。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）和专业知识（数字技术、LCA、文化遗产），这提供了坚实的基础。