This file hosts information regarding sustainability, especially the sustainability of data-related infrastructures. This includes costs as well as business models and associated policy work, e.g. on redundancy and what to delete.
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Quantifying and Mapping Global Data Poverty
- Presents the Data Poverty Index
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Acumen portfolios: Water, Health, Housing, Energy, Agriculture, and Education
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The Cost of Data Storage and Management: Where Is It Headed in 2016?
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Every day, we rely on digital infrastructure built by volunteers. What happens when it fails?
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The next time you drive over a bridge, imagine if its maintenance depended on the efforts of a single volunteer. Its structure, safety, and general upkeep would hinge on this one person’s availability to check the screws, examine the steel for signs of fatigue, and give the bridge a fresh coat of paint. Absurd, right? If we maintained our bridges, roads, and other physical infrastructure this way, we couldn’t really rely on them. They would fail and endanger us regularly—and who knows how long adequate repairs might take?
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It sounds crazy in the context of physical infrastructure, but many people don’t know that this is how much of our critical digital infrastructure is maintained.
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points to report Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor behind Our Digital Infrastructure
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The 2018 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals: an all-new visual guide to data and development
It’s filled with annotated data visualizations, which can be reproducibly built from source code and data. You can view the SDG Atlas online, download the PDF publication (30Mb), and access the data and source code behind the figures.
- Digital Preservation Network
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the only large-scale digital preservation service that is built to last beyond the life spans of individuals, technological systems, and organizations
- background
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- Academic Preservation Trust
- Towards coordinated international support of core data resources for the life sciences
- Sustainability-related activities at NIH
- ArXiv
- The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in the UK requires data to be kept available until 10 years after last consultation:
- "Research organisations will ensure that EPSRC-funded research data is securely preserved for a minimum of 10 years from the date that any researcher ‘privileged access’ period expires or, if others have accessed the data, from last date on which access to the data was requested by a third party; all reasonable steps will be taken to ensure that publicly-funded data is not held in any jurisdiction where the available legal safeguards provide lower levels of protection than are available in the UK."
- Pathway Interaction Database (PID)
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The NCI PID data portal has been retired.
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- Three-part blog post series on sustainability of open research infrastructure
- REV Ocean
- World's largest research vessel, dedicated to research on marine sciences and related fields
- some are in the Sustainable Development Goals
- Global Grand Challenges
- Cancer Research UK Grand Challenges
- TEDMED Great Challenges
- Seven steps to make travel to scientific conferences more sustainable
- No Fly Climate Sci
- Opinion: Instead of flight shaming, let’s be thoughtful and selective about all travel
- Blog Flying Less: Reducing Academia's Carbon Footprint with lots of thoughtful pieces on the matter, with particular attention to flying
- International Council on Clean Transportation
- Fly or drive? Parsing the evolving climate math
- Paper straws alone won't save the planet — with comments on academic travel
- Wikidata as a digital preservation knowledgebase - Open Preservation Foundation
- Data Seal of Approval
- Three ways to grow the open data economy
- Measurement of the Earth's rotation: 720 BC to AD 2015
- reuses astronomical data recorded on Babylonian clay tables
- 1970s and ‘Patient 0’ HIV-1 genomes illuminate early HIV/AIDS history in North America
- reused blood samples to sequence patient genomes to analyze the spread of HIV
- Honey remains edible over millenia
- dates of cherry blossom peaks in Kyoto, from 800 AD to 2016
- 5 Examples of Ancient Data Intelligence
- Ancient forms of data storage
- The economic rationale for public R&I funding and its impact
- Generic Research Data Infrastructure (GeRDI)
- Indigenous sustainability – What can the Indigenous of the Arctic and Australia teach the modern world?
- Belmont Forum e-Infrastructures and Data Management Collaborative Research Action
- The 2017 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals: a new visual guide to data and development
- What a “Green” Data Center Does To Save Energy
- "No conservation strategy will resist a society that measures its wellness on growth."
- A Guide to SDG interactions: from Science to Implementation
- Post-2015 data test
- Creating a Better Economy with Data Science
- Cities, not nation states, will determine our future survival. Here's why
- Make Our Planet Great Again
- Warning - Hurricane Irma Sunday 9/10 — data center of open project may be affected by the hurricane
- Do Not Ship It
- ethical considerations around peer-to-peer dat-based access to Wikipedia and reader privacy
- Kuala Lumpur Declaration on Cities 2030
- A better measure of research from the global south — about research evaluation at IRDC
- Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
- a very detailed and inspiring essay on climate change
- corresponding Wikidata item
- right to repair
- 4th National Climate Assessment (US)
- How climate change will transform business and the workforce
- How a small minority can change the world: Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change
- 30 June 1989: U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked
"A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000."
- archival copy
- seen here
- ‘Resilience bonds’: A secret weapon against catastrophe
- How to take over your town: the inside story of a local revolution — nice piece on how participatory politics can have an impact on the local level
- Prosperity without Growth—Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow
- Dear Tomorrow
- Centre for Studies of Climate Change Denialism
- How Much Is the Future Worth?
- Wikipedia: Social discount rate
- Why you should think about being a good ancestor — and 3 ways to start doing it
- United Nation's Act Now initiative
- Sustainability of pet food
- e.g. as per https://www.yorapetfoods.com/about-us , which is based on Hermetia illucens larvae that are edible to humans too.
- Agenda 2030 in my municipality: a handbook for practitioners for localising the Sustainable Development Goals
- What If We Stopped Pretending? (...that we can stop climate change?)
- Some institutions have plans around climate change adaptation, e.g.
- Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution
- Coolproducts don’t cost the Earth
- Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Remain Large: An Update Based on Country-Level Estimates
- Climate and Clean Air Coalition
- Community control of the electric grid
- Climate Change Communication Award
- Walkable neighbourhoods
- Advice on what the public sector can do with respect to net zero emissions — background: The role of Public Sector Bodies in tackling climate change: A Consultation
- set a date by which to reach zero emissions (sustainably)
- report on how current and planned spending align with emissions reduction targets
- make their annual reports publicly accessible (ideally in a FAIR manner)
- 10 basic facts on climate action
- Locust Watch
- How does Our Research Influence Policy on Global Societal Changes? A Bibliometric Proof of Concept Targeting the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations
- Climate perks
- importance of digital technologies in addressing market failures along the global agri-food value chains
- [Planetary Computer ("AI for Earth")[https://innovation.microsoft.com/en-us/planetary-computer]
- Food waste reduction