Going green: from storing to streaming data
Tamara van Zwol
Our digital heritage users want to be able to find and use all sources available. Of course, it all starts with preserving our digital heritage in the long term for our designated communities to find. We as a community have to help them find the information taking into account their knowledge base, needs and wishes.
But on the downside, this storage and use of digital data costs: it produces carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. It has an impact on our environment. 
A few years ago, the Dutch Digital Heritage Network started a climate awareness campaign. 
In talking to heritage organizations we realized a few things:

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Climate awareness grows and from within: a few colleagues that are ‘green minded’ meet up and campaign their cause within the organization. 

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Some heritage organizations are already taking positive climate measures: they are reusing exhibition materials, stimulating visitors to take public transport or bike to the museum, greening their buildings and depots. 

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The large impact of IT is not always noticed or taken into account. And if it is, you are faced with dilemma’s like servicing your online users in a different or slower manner or be more selective in preserving data or documents(no endless copies). 

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There is a need for more solid, trustworthy information: what are the numbers or figures around climate impact. 

So how do we get on with the campaign? We hope to keep the conversation going within the network. We publish guides about organizing and establishing a greener IT environment in your organization, e.g. making your websites more sustainable. We have a green techwatcher on board blogging about storage, green software, user dilemma’s and AI. We share tips and challenges and organize a few events about greener IT. 
This lightning talk will show some of our results within the Dutch Digital Heritage Network but will hopefully and more importantly keep the conversation going about climate impact and how to tackle this within the preservation community. And maybe it inspires you to start you own climate action campaign.
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