Digital Preservation Consultancy

The Digital Preservation Coalition provides expert digital preservation consultancy services for both members and non-members. Our team offers guidance and support across key areas of digital preservation, tailored to organizations at different stages of their journey.

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Digital Preservation Awards 2026

The Digital Preservation Awards are underway! The biennial awards celebrate the work of our welcoming and inclusive global community which works together to bring about a sustainable future for our digital assets. Finalists will be announced on 8 June 2026!

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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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International Archives Week 2026 to Explore ‘Archives for Justice’ 27 May 2026 Get ready for International Archives Week 2026 (#IAW2026), taking place from 8–12 June 2026! Read Article
Notes from Every Object An Orchestra Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson Last updated on 19 May 2026 A collection of notes on links from the Every Object An Orchestra software preservation and emulation event. Go to Blog

Preservation Registries Collaboration Cafés

28 May 2026 - 10:00PM

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The original idea of this group came out of the iPres 2022 “Registering our preservation intentions” workshop, where we proposed the idea of ...

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