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William Kilbride is the Executive Director of the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) 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. The idea of World Digital Preservation Day is simple – to connect and to raise awareness. Those connected themes are still true and perhaps more needed than ever before. The theme this year was ‘Preserving Our Digital Content: Celebrating...
Ya está disponible el DPC Prospectus 2024-2025
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to share the Spanish translation of our 2024-2025 program of activities on World Digital Preservation Day! The prospectus lists the DPC’s plans for 2024-2025, including the range of new publications, training, webinars and specialist briefings, and supporting resources which will be released. It is shaped by members’ needs but is shared with the entire digital preservation community around the world, in multiple languages...
World Digital Preservation Day 2024: Preserving Our Digital Content: Celebrating Communities
This blogpost has been written by the City St George's School of Health and Medical Sciences Archivist Juulia Ahvensalmi, Records Manager Kirsten Hylan, and Research Data Support Manager Sarah Stewart. Our speciality is healthcare with the records and data we produce supporting our education and research activities, ultimately becoming part of the history of medicine. Digital preservation ensures these records remain accessible to have the greatest positive impact and meet our aim to...
Disponible dès maintenant: Le prospectus 2024-2025 de la DPC en français
In celebrating World Digital Preservation Day, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to share the French translation of our 2024-2025 program of activities today. The prospectus lists the DPC’s plans for 2024-2025, including the range of new publications, training, webinars and specialist briefings, and supporting resources which will be released in the year ahead. It is shaped by members’ needs but is shared with the entire digital preservation community around the...
DPC shares French translations of two Technology Watch Guidance Notes on World Digital Preservation Day
[Voir ci-dessous pour la version française] In celebration of World Digital Preservation Day 2024, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to share translations of two more Technology Watch Guidance Notes from its Data Type series: Preserving Email and Preserving Documents. Now available in French, the Technology Watch Guidance Notes complement the DPC’s popular Technology Watch Report series. Each of the Guidance Notes in the Data Type series is designed to provide a...
The 'Bit List' of Digitally Endangered Species 2024: interim report identifies significant little change to risk profile prompting renewed calls for action
The DPC has released its 2024 interim report on the Global ‘Bit List’ of Endangered Digital Species today, for World Digital Preservation Day on 7th November. Fundamentally, the purpose of the Bit List is advocacy, bringing attention to at-risk data and providing independently verified evidence to support action and investment. Entries are compiled by open nomination and are reviewed by the Bit List Council which is drawn from a global expert community. It represents the voice of those...
New Digital Preservation Toolkit for Community Archives Launches on World Digital Preservation Day 2024!
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is pleased to announce the launch of the Digital Preservation Toolkit for Community Archives today on World Digital Preservation Day, November 7, 2024. The new resource is designed to empower community archives at every stage of their digital preservation journey. This year's World Digital Preservation Day theme, 'Preserving Our Digital Content: Celebrating Communities', couldn't be more fitting for the toolkit's debut. It's a day that brings together...
Arabic Translation of DPC Prospectus Now Out!
النسخة العربية يتبع This World Digital Preservation Day, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to share the Arabic translation of our 2024-2025 program of activities! “With an established DPC presence now in the Americas as well as Australasia and Asia-Pacific, and 166 members in 24 countries around the globe, this new prospectus makes a concerted commitment to the digital preservation community worldwide. Regular, thematic and returning events will be offered in various time...
Jetzt verfügbar: DPC-Broschüre 2024-2025 auf Deutsch
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to share the German translation of our 2024-2025 program of activities on World Digital Preservation Day! The prospectus lists the DPC’s plans for 2024-2025, including the range of new publications, training, webinars and specialist briefings, and supporting resources which will be released. It is shaped by members’ needs but is shared with the entire digital preservation community around the world, in multiple languages and in...
Australia: Doing our part to avert the digital dark ages
Cynde Moya, Postdoctoral Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology For World Digital Preservation Day we are thrilled to announce that our ARC LIEF (Australian Research Council - Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities) application "The Australian Emulation Network Phase 2 - Extending the Reach" has been funded.
NFSA Technical Specifications for Preservation Digitisation
Jaye Weatherburn is Head of Digital Preservation at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) As the trusted custodian of Australia’s audiovisual heritage, the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) actively advises on technical specifications and implements policies and procedures that contribute to good practice across the international GLAMR (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Research) sector. We recognise that evolving...
The importance of Preserving Archival Material for Community through Digitisation
Amie Martin (Gamilaroi) and Gulwanyang Moran (Birrbay & Dhanggati) of the First Nations Community Access to Archives project at the Museums of History New South Wales Under Article 13.1 United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Aboriginal peoples have a right to be self-determining in relation to their Languages, Knowledges and Cultures. The importance of accessing archival materials is fundamental to not only language revitalisation but to...
The Phoenix or The Crow: Expanding the Definition of Digital Preservation Community
Jeanne Kramer-Smyth is the Digital Preservation Program Lead at the World Bank Group Archives Back in 2018, when the Digital Preservation Program at the World Bank Group had matured enough for me to begin sharing regular progress updates with the broader World Bank Group Archives team, I had an opportunity to redefine what it meant to be “part of” our digital preservation community. With the enthusiastic support of the leadership of the Archives, I hosted a half-day workshop that...
Community
William Kilbride is the Executive Director of the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) World Digital Preservation Day 2024 encourages us to consider the communities in which and for whom we work. The theme ‘Preserving Our Digital Content: Celebrating Communities’ has lots of layers and I am looking forward to hearing the many ways our diverse communities will respond to the theme. One of the initial reasons for creating World Digital Preservation Day was to help the highly...
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...
Preserving Time Based Media Art at Getty
Mari Allison worked as Digital Preservation Intern at the Getty and is now Digital Collections Specialist at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History The DPC’s Museum and Galleries working group has been in place for almost a year and a half, and I’ve had the opportunity to join in their meetings during my year at the Getty. I always learn a lot when others discuss their projects, and I’d like to elaborate on a project we’ve mentioned briefly in those meetings,...
The unsung digital preservation story arc in the Star Wars galaxy
Jemma Singleton is an archivist at Newcastle University It's WDPD24 and it seemed fitting to highlight the crucial role that digital preservation plays in films… and specifically as a key plot driver in a galaxy far, far away… Yes, this is about Star Wars. What if I put to you the following proposition… that there are various factors linked to digital preservation practices or interventions by both the empire and the rebels. If any of them had played out differently then the death star...
Fast Learns, Slow Remembers: a pace-layered approach to community
Kelly Stewart is Chief Archivist at Artefactual Systems Inc. When I reflect on the features that define the digital preservation community, I see two notable characteristics. One is slow and cautious, the other fast and free. While these two aspects may seem to be diametrically opposed, both are nonetheless necessary in the digital preservation community so that our children and grandchildren (and so on) have the best chance of living in a world where cultural memory...
Digital Preservation in NGOs: The Case of Wikimedia Mexico
Claudia Muñoz López is a student at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and winner of the 2024 Digital Preservation Award for Most Outstanding Student Work in Digital Preservation Este blog está disponible en español a continuación: Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are autonomous, non-profit associations integraded by volunteer citizens who are part of civil society. They are characterized by their focus on specific social work; although...
Community Resources and File Format Signature Development
Amanda Tomé is Preservation Coordinator for the Digital Research Alliance of Canada Background 2024 is the year of file formats for the Digital Research Alliance of Canada’s Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR). It’s been a year of being confused by file formats, overwhelmed by file formats, and generally trying to figure out what to do with the file formats in our repository. After reviewing the results of a file metrics scan undertaken on the repository in March 2024, which...