Join us in celebrating World Digital Preservation Day 2024!!

Through this year's theme 'Preserving Our Digital Content: Celebrating Communities’ we want to celebrate the diversity of the communities which surround and support us, whilst also drawing attention to the unique and valuable digital content which becomes their digital legacy.

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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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Vacancy for Assistant Archivist: Digital Preservation and Access at University of the Arts London 15 November 2024 This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the preservation of digital collections at University of the Arts London (UAL). Read Article
Community (+1) William Kilbride William Kilbride Last updated on 8 November 2024 One day more.  As the sun sets on the Pacific islands west of the Americas, it’s time to declare an end to World Digital Preservation Day 2024. One final blog ... Go to Blog

#DPConnect

22 Nov 2024 - 02:00PM

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Join #DPConnect on Fridays at 1400 UTC as a weekly online space to drop in and discuss all things digital preservation.

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