Archived DPC and Digital Preservation Media Coverage

RLG DigiNews Digging Up Bits of the Past: Hands-on With Obsolescence
Richard Entlich & Ellie Buckley

Library of Congress Library Holds Strategy Session On 'Preserving Creative America'
Update 26 March 2007
Link updated to new location.

AXS-One IT Directors Looking To Raise Game On Digital Archiving

ChannelMinds IT Directors Looking To Raise Game On Digital Archiving
Update 23 May 2006
Link disabled as page no longer available.

You and Yours, BBC Radio 4, Digital Archive, Charlotte Smith

A short item on the longevity of digital materials featuring Richard Masters (British Library) and Jack Schofield (The Guardian)."

SCONUL Focus (34) Selective web archiving in the UK : a perspective of the National Library of Scotland within UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC) (PDF 166kb), Paul Cunnea

Update 27 OCtober 2006
Link updated to new location

Richard Hollingham prepared a two-part programme described as "a timely investigation into the loss of cultural, public and historical records, both analogue and digital, as a result of deterioration or advances in technology." Several DPC members were interviewed for the programmes, including Kevin Ashley, Richard Boulderstone, and David Ryan. Appropriately, the original interviews will be preserved and form part of the BBC's Creative Archive, to be launched in 2005.

Maggie Jones, 'Are you talking to me?'. SCONUL Issue 33, Winter 2004. Also available online at:
http://www.sconul.ac.uk/publications/newsletter/33/14.pdf

Update 27 OCtober 2006
Link updated to new location

By kind permission of Cimtech Ltd (IM@T Online March 2004) this article is reproduced here.

The future access to information produced or held in digital formats is a step closer to being more fully understood and provided for, reports the first Annual Report (July 2002-July 2003) of the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC). Since it was set up and launched at the House of Commons in 2002, the DPC has generated widespread interest in the potential crisis facing the long-term survival of digital materials and it has been providing advice and guidance on solutions and best practice.

Significant interest and a rapid growth in coalition members are the key milestones that have been achieved in its first full year. The widespread use of its website and online handbook have proved the real value that the Coalition’s work is adding.

Chair of the DPC, Lynne Brindley, remarks in her introduction to the report, that the first year has been a very significant year. She praises JISC's substantial support through the release of Neil Beagrie to work as inaugural Secretary to the DPC. His time and energy has helped the DPC establish itself more rapidly and has created the reserves sufficient to allow a full-time member of staff to be recruited to develop the DPC’s work further.

Key highlights of the year

• Further promotion of the Preservation Management of Digital Materials: A Handbook which has sold over 1,200 copies world-wide
• An online edition of the Handbook - updated and with new URLs added regularly
• 1.3 million hits and 58,000 visits to the DPC website
• Recruitment of new Coalition members - up from an initial 7 to 25
• Decision to establish a Digital Preservation Award as part of Pilgrim Trust Conservation awards
• Recruitment of a full-time member of staff
• Contribution to drafting of EU Council resolution and the UNESCO resolution on preserving the digital heritage
• A seminar for publishers on digital archiving
• DPC Discussion email lists
• DPC Events, training and Forum Programmes
• DPC Survey of Industry Vendors
• Commencement of first stage of UK Digital Preservation Needs Survey

The DPC is keen to build on its strengths and develop its advocacy work, spreading awareness of the serious problem facing preservation of digital materials to the general public and other key stakeholders. Maggie Jones, the new DPC full-time co-ordinator is now charged with taking the aims of the Coalition further and is, amongst other things, overseeing the first national Needs Assessment Survey. A series of tasks have been identified, this includes preparing a table of digital preservation projects being undertaken by DPC members and the preparation of a report on options for training.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) was formed in 2001 and was formally established as a Company in July 2002, to foster joint action to address the urgent challenges of securing the preservation of digital resources in the UK and to work with others internationally to secure our global digital memory and knowledge base. Information about the aims and objectives of the Coalition and a full copy of the report (as a PDF under 'Annual Reports') on the website below.

Digital Preservation Coalition. www.dpconline.org

Computer Weekly, Galleries and museums face a tough challenge to get online, James Rogers.

Update 25 August 2008
New location:
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2002/08/15/189041/galleries-and-museums-face-a-tough-challenge-to-get.htm