Digital Afterlives: data preservation, sustainability and destruction

Description

Ensuring long-term access to digital data is often a difficult task: both hardware and code decay much more rapidly than many other means of information storage. Digital data created in the 1980s is frequently unreadable, whereas books and manuscripts written in the 980s are still legible. This CDH Basics session explores good practice in data preservation and software sustainability and looks at what you need to do to ensure that the data you don’t want to keep is destroyed.

CDH Basics sessions are open to staff and graduate students who want to learn and apply digital methods and use digital tools in their research.

This session will be delivered using Zoom so please ensure you have it installed ahead of the session. You will also be registered onto our Moodle page for any communications and materials relating to this session. A joining link will be sent out as part of the booking confirmation process.

If you require any help before the session, such as accessibility support, please email the CDH Learning team (learning@cdh.cam.ac.uk), for further assistance.