2023 - November and December - page 27
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| Issue number | 395 |
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| ISSN | 2632-7171 |
| Publication date | 1st November 2023 |
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Feature magazine Graphic from The Box on Screen Series, 2020-2023 © The Box Plymouth and the environment - Digital Decarbonisation). These alarming statistics can deter digital asset collection, risking innovative access pathways for audiences, and devaluing the extraordinary power digital resources hold to reimagine the future and to amplify diverse voices and representations. Balancing best practices, equitable access, and sustainability is crucial. Environmental concerns are now an additional key consideration in our work. Decarbonising Our Practice The Box is on a decarbonisation journey, strongly aligned with our mission, vision and values and as a committed National Portfolio Organisation. With investment from the BFI Screen Heritage Resilience Fund, our media archive team is assessing carbon costs in preserving the collections to establish a baseline from which to build a strategy and plan that achieve sustainable collections care. We don’t hold all the answers and recognise that there are other exemplary organisations who are further ahead in their journey. We are mindful of the increasing carbon cost as we digitise more. Following a ‘preventing pointless preservation’ approach, we prioritise and digitally preserve vital, frequently used, and at-risk collections or parts of a collection. We now create only the highest and lowest quality versions, reducing storage, saving 27 |