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Digital Preservation Awards Roll of Honour
2024 - Winner of the International Council on Archives Award for Collaboration and Cooperationpresented by Gustavo Castaner and April MillerCollaborative models of care: preserving Australian First Nations digital cultural heritage 2024 - Winner of the Digital Repository of Ireland Award for Research and Innovationpresented by Lisa Griffith and Arif ShaonImproving access to and sustainability of the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures...
Digital Preservation Awards 2014
Meet the winners Four agencies walked away with awards for their exceptional contribution to ensuring the long-term security of digital collections: The University of Freiburg and partners with ‘bwFLA Functional Long Term Archiving and Access.’ 2014 winner of the OPF Award for Research and Innovation presented by Ed Fay, OPF and Sandra Collins, Digital Repository of Ireland The bwFLA (Functional Long Term Archiving and Access) project provides distributed, scalable...
Digital Preservation Awards 2014
Meet the winners Four agencies walked away with awards for their exceptional contribution to ensuring the long-term security of digital collections: The University of Freiburg and partners with ‘bwFLA Functional Long Term Archiving and Access.’ 2014 winner of the OPF Award for Research and Innovation presented by Ed Fay, OPF and Sandra Collins, Digital Repository of Ireland The bwFLA (Functional Long Term Archiving and Access) project provides distributed, scalable...
Career Development Fund
Workforce Development in Digital Preservation The DPC recognizes the very great need among our members for access to specialist training for professional development, as well as the very great risks and costs that are incurred by those that provide and deliver such training. The DPC Career Development Fund (previously known as the Leadership Programme) has been created with the help of DPC’s Supporters to offer an ongoing programme of grants so that our members can attend training and...
Preservation Planning for Personal Digital Collections by Paul Wilson
A condensed version of this case note also appears in the Technology Watch Report Personal Digital Archiving by Gabriela Redwine. Paul Wilson’s case note summarizes his attempts to find a suitable preservation planning process and associated documentation to apply to his personal digital collections. Since he could find no preservation planning process appropriate to individuals, he obtained a slide set detailing a simple preservation workflow from the Digital Preservation Coalition, and used...