Registries of Good Practice
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An Unexpected Gift
WARNING: May Contain Excessive Whimsy. 'Twas the week before Christmas, when all through DPC,not a keyboard was silent, mice glid furiously.With vacation looming, much still to be done,TODO lists to tame; once short, growing long. But the break also beckoned, to pause, to take stock.Soon work will rest, for the wicked and not.But what's this in the stocking you hung with such care?It's surely too soon to arrive by Reindeer? A strange little note, some words and some links.Was the author...
Meeting the File Format Challenge
One of my favourite parts of the Digital Preservation Workbench we launched at iPRES 2024 is the 'Format Diversity Estimation'. It's based on the realisation that we could apply approaches from the study of ecological species diversity to the digital format ecosystem, and use them to estimate how many formats are out there awaiting analysis. This matters because identifying the format of digital resources a crucial step towards understanding the information and...
Announcing the First release of the Digital Preservation Workbench
A second prototype service is now available from the Registries of Good Practice project, following on from the release of the Digital Preservation Publications Index in May. The Digital Preservation Workbench brings together a suite of different experimental interfaces and tools, aiming to help improve the practice of digital preservation and to understand what kinds of information systems we really need.
Registration for iPRES 2024 now open
The iPRES 2024 Programme Committee is thrilled to announce that registration for iPRES 2024 is officially open! There are three registration types for you to choose from: In-person attendance Online attendance Monday-only attendance
The Registries of Good Practice Project
What is this project about? The "Registries of Good Practice" Project will explore and develop different approaches to analyze, collate, present and, most importantly, make discoverable the many existing registries and collections of digital preservation good practice. Who is working on this project? This two-year project is a collaboration between the Digital Preservation Coalition and Yale University Library, looking to make the most of our digital preservation registries. For more...
Preservation Registries Special Interest Group
What is the Preservation Registries Special Interest Group? The original idea of this group came out of the iPres 2022 “Registering our preservation intentions” workshop, where we proposed the idea of the Digital Preservation Coalition hosting an open ‘drop-in’ meeting for anyone interested in format and software registries. To this end, we will run a monthly videoconference meeting that provides a space for to discuss anything and everything related to the maintenance and use of format...
Registries of Practice: Goals & Principles
Following on from our earlier announcement, we wanted to go into a bit more detail about the goals of the Registries of Good Practice project, some of the principles that will guide us, and how to get involved.
Registries of Good Practice: New project launched to help practitioners discover digital preservation resources
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Yale University Library have launched a new 2-year project this month, which aims to enhance our digital preservation registry space. Registries of Good Practice will explore and develop different approaches to analyze, collate, present and, most importantly, make discoverable the many existing registries and collections of digital preservation good practice.