This award distinguishes excellence in outreach, training and advocacy. The award includes a cash prize of £1000, a trophy and certificates.
Meet the finalists:
Brazilian Training Program in Digital Preservation
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Nominee: Miguel Angel Mardero Arellano The Brazilian Training Program of the Cariniana Network aims to offer open and advanced courses that address essential aspects of digital preservation. The program's main objective is to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the fundamental concepts of digital preservation. The program's structure and the active participation of researchers from the DRÍADE Research Group consolidate a continuous learning ecosystem, promoting specialized and accessible training for professionals from diverse fields. The modular approach and synchronous interaction enabled not only the transmission of technical knowledge but also the exchange of experiences and the development of proposals applicable to the realities of the participating institutions. |
Digital Archives Program Workshop
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Nominee: Dylan Bremner Dylan Bremner, Digital Archivist at the City of Edmonton Archives in Canada, has supported his professional association, the Archives Society of Alberta, by sharing his expertise with the archival community. He developed and taught a Digital Archival Program Workshop which gave small archives throughout the province knowledge on how to start a digital archives program and to digitize/migrate and preserve tape cassettes, VHS and optical discs. The workshop simplified complex technical concepts and archival theories for participants who are not formally trained in the archival profession. The training has provided small archives with capacity to begin programs for digital archives. |
Digital Ghosts - Visualising Scotland's Web Archives
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Nominee: Dr Andrea Kocsis Digital Ghosts is a practice-based research project with a huge impact and an even bigger heart. Centred on a public exhibition at Inspace Gallery, Edinburgh, it used creative visualisations and data-physicalisation artworks built from the Scotland on the Internet collection of the UK Web Archive, curated at the National Library of Scotland, to engage non-specialist audiences with web preservation. The project asked how visualising messy, fragmented GLAM metadata can communicate the scale of web decay, and how this creative approach can facilitate the use of web archives by exposing the heroic web preservation efforts. |
