CERN Summer Student Report: Digital Memory at CERN - Archiving and preserving existing knowledge

In the past decades, the value and importance of data became unparalleled. Since its foundation, a significant data set has been collected at CERN with the help of thousands of contributors. However, as a pioneer of scientific life, CERN also has the responsibility to preserve the acquired knowledge for future generations. This purpose holds many challenges: the amount of data, the deprecation of file formats, the digitization, and the diversity of both physical and computer-based data are all important aspects. Answering the need, the Digital Memory project was born at CERN. The main goal is to provide an archiving service where contributors can initialize a request to preserve their digital assets in long-term storage. CERN hosts various services to store information, and it is important to be able to archive these records. During my Summer Student Programme, I mainly worked on creating pipelines for processing records from different upstream sources to ingest them into the archival system.