Community

Our activities sustain and enable our community to collaborate and grow, and we maintain and refresh the social infrastructure which helps the community cohere as it expands. In doing so, we foster openness and challenge structural inequalities that constrain participation.

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Advocacy

We work towards a climate of public and institutional policy which is better informed and better inclined towards digital preservation.

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Workforce Development

We provide opportunities for our members to acquire, develop and retain competent and responsive workforces that are ready to address the challenges of digital preservation.

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Good Practice

We support our members towards greater maturity in digital preservation by delivering knowledge exchange, continuous improvement, horizon scanning, advice on standards, authoritative publications, and engaging and informative events.

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Accountable, Sustainable, Dynamic Governance

We remain accountable to members and responsive to their needs, particularly as the scale of our activities expand.

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We are building:
  • A digital preservation community which provides an effective platform for meaningful and sustained professional exchange.
  • A climate of public and institutional policy which is better informed and better inclined towards digital preservation.
  • Competent and responsive workforces that are ready to address the challenges of digital preservation.
  • Greater maturity in digital preservation through knowledge exchange, advice, authoritative publications and informative events.
  • Accountable and sustainable organizational functions and structures to ensure good governance.
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Digital Preservation Handbook

The Handbook identifies good practice in creating, managing and preserving digital materials. By providing a strategic overview of the key issues, discussion and guidance on strategies and activities, and pointers to key projects and reports, the Handbook provides guidance for institutions and individuals and a range of tools to help them identify and take appropriate actions.

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Award-Winning Bits and Bots Study Group Launches New Cohort 11 March 2025 This study group has a twist. Learning new skills can be daunting and therefore the organisers incorporated a fun element: you learn by building games! Join an Information Session on March 25th or 27th to learn more. Read Article
As It Was - Personal Reflections on the Mental Health and Wellbeing Survey Findings Report Sharon McMeekin Sharon McMeekin Last updated on 11 March 2025 Head of Workforce Development, Sharon McMeekin, reflects on the DPC's recent research work on the topic of mental health and wellbeing in the digital preservation community. Go to Blog

Digital Preservation Masterclass: A Celebration of Good Practice, Innovation and Collaboration

11 Mar 2025

All are welcome to join us for this exciting webinar mini-series as we take a deep dive into the very best of digital preservation practice and meet winners of the ...

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