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* Building a website is an intellectual act. | * Building a website is an intellectual act. | ||
* Websites are built to die. But data organised and presented by that website must be produced in such a way that it is ready for long-term digital preservation. | * Websites are built to die. But data organised and presented by that website must be produced in such a way that it is ready for long-term digital preservation. | ||
** This website is backed up as a part of the Wikibase Cloud [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T299505 disaster recovery regime]. Dumps of project data are regularly made, and will in due course be deposited as a dataset. | |||
* The products of our labour are hard to understand unless we document that labour... | * The products of our labour are hard to understand unless we document that labour... | ||
** See [https://beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Project:Meta Meta] for our attempts to show our work. If you can't find something, ask us for it. | ** See [https://beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Project:Meta Meta] for our attempts to show our work. If you can't find something, ask us for it. | ||
* ...and yet datasets like ours will always outlive the rationale for their creation. | * ...and yet datasets like ours will always outlive the rationale for their creation. | ||
* Digital infrastuctures are material resources that contribute to the climate crisis: their production requires energy, the storing and movement of data requires energy, and ideas like 'the cloud' can deepen the perceived ethereality of the digital. | * Digital infrastuctures are material resources that contribute to the climate crisis: their production requires energy, the storing and movement of data requires energy, and ideas like 'the cloud' can deepen the perceived ethereality of the digital. | ||
** This wiki uses the [https://beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Main_Page#Acknowledgements | ** This wiki uses the [https://beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Main_Page#Acknowledgements Wikibase Cloud] infrastructure. Wikibase Cloud uses as a hosting platform. Google Cloud claims to be the [https://cloud.google.com/sustainability 'cleanest cloud in industry']. We note that Google Cloud basis these claims on a combination of renewable "off-taking" and off-setting, the greenness of which is discussed in a [https://royalsociety.org/news/2020/12/digital-tech-vital-net-zero-royal-society-report/ recent report by the Royal Society (2020)]. We continue to monitor the environmental claims of Google Cloud. | ||
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