New Members

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to welcome Hampshire County Council as its latest Associate Member.  Incorporating Hampshire Archives and Wessex Film and Sound Archive (WFSA), Hampshire County Council preserves and provides access to archives relating to Hampshire, as well as film and sound material relating to central southern England, which bring Hampshire’s history to life. Holding over 22,000 cinefilms and video recordings, more than 16,000 sound recordings, and 1 million entries in its online catalogue of records in all formats, the County Council is also embarking on a 3-year project which aims to generate additions to born-digital contemporary collections. 

DPC Associate Member since 2020, the Agency for Facility Operations of the Flemish Government (the Agency) upgraded its membership this month to become the latest Full Member of the Coalition.

The Agency, which provides professional support to the entities of the Flemish government, has developed a shared digital archiving service - Digital Archives Flanders. This service is open to more than 300 organizations and local authorities of the Flemish government. Supporting this development, the Agency provides the technical infrastructure, the software and the expertise with regard to the management, storage and preservation of born digital information.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to welcome Vanderbilt University’s Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries as they become the newest Full Member of the Coalition.

With more than 18 million digital items in their collections, the Heard Libraries pursue effective and inclusive models for digital preseration and stewardship. In addition to a diverse range of digitized manuscript collections, the academic research library in Nashville, Tennessee, holds and preserves one of the preeminent digital audio-visual collections in the United States through the Vanderbilt Television News Archive, featuring more than 62,000 hours of transcribed video content.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to welcome Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision as they become the Coalition’s newest Associate Member. 

Based in Wellington, Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision is the audiovisual archive of Aotearoa New Zealand. With more than 800,000 items spanning over 120 years of Aotearoa New Zealand’s sound and moving image history, the collection includes film and television, sound and radio recordings.

The University of Arizona Libraries have joined the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) this month, becoming the Coalition’s newest Associate Member.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to welcome Museums of History New South Wales (MHNSW), as they become the Coalition’s newest Associate Member. MHNSW collects, manages, and preserves one of Australia’s most valuable and diverse holdings of heritage and history. This includes the State Archives Collection; a portfolio of 11 significant historic buildings and sites; and museum, library and archival collections related to the significant buildings and sites.

London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) has joined the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) this month, becoming the Coalition’s newest Associate Member.

As the city’s public archive, London Metropolitan Archives exists to collect records of London’s rich past history and to find and collect records of London’s vibrant and diverse present, which are permanently preserved for the use and benefit of present and future generations.

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The National Library and Archives of United Arab Emirates (NLA) is the latest organization to join the Digital Preservation Coalition, as they become Associate Member this month. Based in Abu Dhabi, and one of the oldest cultural institutions in the United Arab Emirates, the NLA provides intellectuals with a variety of publications that explore both authentic cultural and contemporary issues in history and heritage.  

The Irish Traditional Music Archive / Taisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann (ITMA) has joined the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) this month, becoming the Coalition’s newest Associate Member.

Based in Dublin, ITMA is the national public archive and resource centre for Irish traditional music, song and dance, with a mission to be the globally recognised specialist advisory agency to advance appreciation, knowledge, and the practice of Irish traditional music. ITMA was born into the digital age and digitisation has been a core activity since inception. ITMA holds born-digital collections through both field recording and donations and has also amassed large volumes of digital surrogates from over 30 years of digitisation work carried out on analogue audio, audio-visual, photograph and print collections.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to welcome the University of Strathclyde, as they become the newest Associate Member of the Coalition.

Located in Glasgow, the University of Strathclyde is responsible for the digital preservation of more than 80000 scholarly publications as well as over 40TB of archive collections, with more on the way. Workflows are deployed for research publications, datasets and theses which aim to standardise digital preservation activities.

“The University of Strathclyde increasingly views digital preservation as a key part of the workflow for a variety of digital objects and an essential part of system functionality,” explains Alan Slevin, Scholarly Publications Manager for the University of Strathclyde.