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.
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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Rapid Assessment Model 3.0: now available in multiple languages!
28 March 2025
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to share translations of the Rapid Assessment Model (RAM) in Simplified and Traditional Chinese, French, Japanese and Turkish.
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Steps towards a definition of 'Business of Usual' for digital preservation
This blog post summarises discussions that took place in a recent workshop on digital preservation as 'business as usual'. What does it actually look like and how do we know when we get there?
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This blog post summarises discussions that took place in a recent workshop on digital preservation as 'business as usual'. What does it actually look like and how do we know when we get there?
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Preservation Registries Special Interest Group
03 Apr 2025
The original idea of this group came out of the iPres 2022 “Registering our preservation intentions” workshop, where we proposed the idea of the Digital Preservation Coalition hosting an ...