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As part of its strategic commitments to workforce development, the DPC undertakes studies on the digital preservation labour market, analyzing data gathered from online job advertisements. The main objective of these analyses is to facilitate recruitment, staff management, and career development of DPC members by capturing and sharing information specific to the digital preservation labour market, using what is found to help develop and shape the outputs of the DPC Workforce Development program. By sharing the information gathered through the analyses more widely, the DPC aims to facilitate the knowledge and development of those in the digital preservation field and invite further discussion and practical use by digital preservation practitioners. |
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DPC Labour Market Analysis Resources
The following resources are available for reference or use by the wider digital preservation community.
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The DPC Summary Report on the 2021-2022 Digital Preservation Labour Market and accompanying Dataset
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The previous 2020 DPC Labour Market Analysis Summary Report
These resources are made available for use and reuse under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. In summary, this means they can be freely shared and adapted as long as proper attribution is made, that it is for non-commercial purposes, and any resources that remix, transform, or build upon the content carry the same license, allowing reuse.
Acknowledgements
The DPC Labour Market analyses build on and draw from previous research and work including, but not limited to, the DigCurV lenses and the DigCCur Curriculum Matrix, NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation and NDSA Staffing Survey reports, University of Maine Digital Curation market analyses, as well as the DPC Rapid Assessment Model and DPC Competency Framework, Audit Toolkit and example role descriptions. Thanks also go to colleagues within the DPC team and members of the DPC's Workforce Development Sub-Committee for their support, feedback, insights, and encouragement during the development of the research and report.
Feedback and Review
The DPC is committed to the ongoing support and development of the Labour Market analysis. We welcome feedback on all DPC resources and incorporate from the digital preservation community. All feedback received will be carefully considered, with input from the DPC Workforce Development Sub-Committee, for the next labour market analysis planned for 2025-2026. To provide feedback, please email info@dpconline.org.