Digital Bedrock Founder and CEO Linda Tadic has recently been featured in two articles. First, a SMPTE Spotlight profile highlights her leadership in the field of digital preservation, specifically regarding archiving and sustainability.
“All of these technologies require data centers to function, all of which are cooled with massive amounts of water when the globe encounters intense droughts. These data centers use hard drives and solid-state drives, both are made with rare Earth minerals, which are scarce. With millions of users involved, this has an impact on the environment. But this technology is here to stay, and that’s why industry leaders need to recognize and take responsibility for the way we use these advancements."
Linda was also interviewed by Montreal’s McGill University’s Office for Science and Society for an article on the life expectancy of physical media formats (CD, DVD, and Blu-ray discs), and the challenge to preserve information when the media that they are written on inevitably become obsolete.