The DPC's strategic plan provides a mandate to support the development of a "competent and responsive workforce that is ready to address the challenges of digital preservation." With practitioners coping with a variety of pressures including limited budgets, the challenge of advocacy, fragmented roles, and unrealistic workloads, we recognize the need for responsive support for the mental health and wellbeing of those working in digital preservation.
Mental Health and Wellbeing Community Research
In 2023, the DPC circulated a community survey to gather the data needed to establish a baseline picture of mental health and wellbeing in the digital preservation community. The findings report is now available below, along with the executive summary provided as a separate publication and a dataset including anonymized quantitative data from the survey.
- Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Digital Preservation Community: 2023 Survey Findings Report
- Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Digital Preservation Community: 2023 Survey Findings Report Executive Summary
- Anonymized Quantitative Data from the 2023 Mental Health and Wellbeing in Digital Preservation Community Survey
Attributions for the report should be as follows:
Digital Preservation Coalition, Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Digital Preservation Community: 2023 Survey Findings Report, https://doi.org/10.7207/mhw2025, 2025