title: TIPPING POINT: Have we gone past the point where we can handle the Digital Preservation Deluge?
creators: Paul Stokes Karen Colbron
abstract: The world today is faced with an insurmountable problem. There is too much digital “stuff” in existence for us to even handle in any sort of meaningful way, let alone curate and preserve. We have reached (or perhaps even gone beyond) the data processing tipping point. There is an enormous amount of data already in existence and unimaginably more being generated every day. This panel proposal (and accompanying poster) is intended to explore this doomsday data scenario with a group of experts in the field of Digital Preservation and related disciplines with a view to deciding if it is true and what can be done about it.
keywords: data doomsday tipping point data deluge