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Queen’s University Belfast joins the Digital Preservation Coalition.
Added on 22 April 2022
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to welcome Library Services at Queen’s University Belfast as its newest Associate member this month.
Founded in Belfast in 1845, the Library aims to ensure long-term access to digital content through the development of a strategy to support the acquisition, management, preservation and provision of access to born-digital and digitised content. With responsibility for the institutional repository as well as Special Collections and Archives, the Library has plans to implement both a Library Services specific Digital Preservation Policy, as well as a university-wide Digital Preservation Policy and long-term data management plan.
Vacancy for Senior Research Data Officer at University of St Andrews
25 April 2022
Eden Campus
£27,924 - £30,497 per annum pro rata
Fixed Term
Vacancy for Video Preservation Technician at National Library of Scotland
24 April 2022
Edinburgh, Scotland
£25,167 p/a
Part-Time
Contract Opportunity - File Format Analysis and Preservation Planning for Born Digital Collections at Library of Congress
25 April 2022
Vacancy for Repository Manager at Middlesex University
25 April 2022
Hendon
£32,893 to £37,722 per annum
Fixed Term
DPC Rapid Assessment Model: Turkish translation now available!
Added on 12 April 2022
[Türkçe versiyonu aşağıdadır]
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to share a Turkish translation of its Rapid Assessment Model (RAM), with thanks to Dr. Özhan Sağlik at Bursa Uludağ University in Turkey and Nathalie Defne Gier and Mustafa Ergül at Koç University in Turkey who generously donated their time to make the resource accessible.
Now available as a PDF download in Turkish, the second edition of the DPC RAM is a digital preservation maturity modelling tool that has been designed to enable rapid benchmarking of an organization’s digital preservation capability.
Vacancy for Marketing & Communications Specialist at Digital Curation Centre
2 May 2022
Edinburgh
£28,756 - £33,309 per annum
Fixed Term
Robin Wright to join DPC staff in May as Head of DPC Australasia & Asia-Pacific.
Added on 12 April 2022
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to announce that Robin Wright will join its staff in May in the full-time role of Head of DPC Australasia & Asia-Pacific.
Robin joins the DPC most recently from Swinburne University of Technology where she manages the library’s Scholarly Resources team providing digital content licensing and acquisition, records management, copyright services and open access policy development.