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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The Digital Preservation Coalition welcomes the American Institute of Physics as its newest member 10 April 2025 “AIP is excited to join the Digital Preservation Coalition’s robust network of organizations and professionals,” says Trevor Owens, Chief Research Officer at AIP. Read Article
A perspective on need among digital preservation professionals James Baker James Baker Last updated on 24 April 2025 In 2023 I was lucky enough to be awarded funding by the Arts and Humanities Research Council to do something I really enjoy but rarely have enough time for: spending time with digital preservation professionals. Go to Blog

DPC Members Forum and Networking Event - Americas

24 Apr 2025 - 10:00AM

We are delighted to invite DPC Members and members of the digital preservation community to attend our first DPC Members Forum and Networking Event in the USA!

This two-day ...

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