Order from Data Chaos: JLU's Digital Cleanup
In the course of a work year, electronic documents, files, and e-mails accumulate in a variety of ways. However, employees often neglect to organize, file, and protect stored data. To help them structure their digital files and get a feel for the support needs within the university, the Digital Transformation Office (BfD) organized an event, Digital Spring Cleaning, on the first day of spring: March 20, 2023.
In the course of a work year, electronic documents, files, and e-mails accumulate in a variety of ways. However, employees often neglect to organize, file, and protect stored data. To help them structure their digital files and get a feel for the support needs within the university, the Digital Transformation Office (BfD) organized an event, Digital Spring Cleaning, on the first day of spring: March 20, 2023.
The vice president for scientific infrastructure, Prof. Dr. Alexander Goesmann, and Jeanette Jäger, a consultant in BfD, started the event at 9 a.m. with a short online keynote greeting to approximately 70 enthusiasts and launched them into spring cleaning. During the day, JLU employees had the opportunity to personally clean up their digital space via simple, accessible, and bilingual tutorials. At the end of the day, the event was evaluated.
The results, as well as personal feedback, showed widespread interest for the topic, and many JLU employees found the time and support for digital cleanup to be valuable.
For this reason, the digital cleanup tutorials will remain available at https://www.uni-giessen.de/en/organization/admin/staff-divisions-1/stwen/bfd-en/digspringfolder. Since the topic of digital filing continues to be relevant, BfD will soon offer additional, user-friendly formats oriented to specific target groups to help them with this task.
[1] https://publica.fraunhofer.de/handle/publica/294373, p. 54 (last accessed: April 6, 2023)