Find out more about the benefits of the DPC Career Development Fund from previous grant recipients...
The following blog posts and outputs from previous DPC grant recipients, arranged by the name of the event or course, provide information and reflections on the knowledge or skills learned from the funded opportunity.
Aberystwyth University Department of Information Studies (DIS) Short Courses
Archives and Records Association (ARA) UK & Ireland Annual Conference
- Rosie Dyson (2024): Sustainable approaches to digital preservation at ARA2024
- Janina Ziesche (2021): Marketing Records Management and Digital Preservation – Approaches to Advocacy at the ARA 2021 Virtual Conference
- Jessica Hooley (2021): Reflecting on the ARA 2021 Conference as an Archives & Records Management Student
Australian Museum and Gallery Association’s (AMaGA) Conference
- Liz Long (2023): Leaning into discomfort at AMaGA 2023
Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) Annual Conference
- Joyce Wong (2023): Rising to our Challenges as a Community - ASA 2023
- Natalie Anderson (2022): ASA 2022 - NFSA: Evolving Identity and Emerging Technologies
- Andrea Walker (2021): The ASA 2021 Conference: Some Reflections and Highlights from a Virtual Attendee
Birkbeck University of London Certificate in Applied Data Science
- Jacob Bickford (2021): Providing computational access to the Polytechnic Magazine (1879 to 1960)
Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP) and DPTP Online Course
- Rachael Muir (2019): Reflections on the Digital Preservation Training Programme
- Chris Loftus (2017): DPTP Migration of file formats; understanding loss and how to manage it
- Short interviews with 2011 grant recipients who attended the Digital Preservation Training Programme
Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities (DCDC) Conference
- Emma Burgham (2023): DCDC 2023 – Radical Reimagining
- Adrian Clark (2022): DCDC 2022 - Inclusive, Diverse, Collections for the Future - now!
- Yi-Ting Lin (2022): DCDC 2022 - The Future Landscape of Digital Archives
- Shalen Fu (2021): DCDC21: Transforming crisis into opportunity within the GLAMA sectors
- Carrie Marks (2021): Digital Loans and Virtual Visitors
Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF) Film Restoration Summer School
- Natalia Bianchi (2022): Notes After Attending the 2022 FIAF Film Restoration Summer School
Fédération Internationale des Archives de Télévision / The International Federation of Television Archives (FIAT/IFTA) World Conference
- Thandokazi Maceba (2022): Reimagining the digital preservation workflows of Archives - FIAT/IFTA World Conference 2022
Information and Records Management Society (IRMS) Conference
- Bridie-Ann Carr (2023): IRMS2023 Conference – Digital preservation dreams and the shared drive nightmare
International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES)
- Lukas Hechenblaickner (2024): iPRES 2024 - Meeting the Digital Preservation Community - Impressions of a first-time attendee
- Delaney Sweep (2024): The Difficulty with Art: Reflections on the iPRES 2024 session “Preserving Works of Art”
- Taryn Ellis (2023): Musings on the iPres 2023 Panel, “Policies, Risks and Strategies: A File Format Debate”
- Emily Clarke (2023): WDPD, iPRES 2023 and Digital Preservation: A Concerted Effort
- Ailie O'Hagan (2023): Digital Preservation Soup
- Elisabeth Thurlow (2019): iPres 2019: Making Emulation Accessible and iPres 2019: Preserving the people in digital preservation
- Elizabeth Kata (2019): Finding the Cutting Edge in Common Formats
- Leontien Talboom (2019): iPres 2019 session - NEW HORIZONS // Web Archiving and iPres 2019 session - NEW HORIZONS // Access & FAIR
- Kirsty Fairclough (2019): iPRES 2019 // Whose Digital Preservation? Locating our Standpoints to Reallocate Resources and iPRES2019 // Sad by Design: Politics and Psychology of the Social Media Age
- John Pelan (2019): iPres 2019: A roundup
- Jaana Pinnick (2019): iPres 2019 New Horizons Panel – Sustaining Digital Preservation in the Nuclear Field
- Colin Armstrong (2018): Taking Stock after 15 years Panel at iPres 2018 and Web Preservation at iPRES 2018
- Alexander Roberts (2018): Variation in national digital preservation policies and The 'Capstone' email appraisal approach
- Chris Fryer (2017): Data management at iPRES 2017
- Jaye Weatherburn (2017): Preservation storage workshop at iPres 2017 and Acquisition and Appraisal at iPres2017
- Louise Lawson (2017): Emulation and Software Preservation at iPres 2017 and FAIR Data in Trustworthy Data Repositories at iPres 2017
- Paul Young (2016): iPRES 2016 Blog - Panel: Software Sustainability and Preservation
International Conference on FAIR Digital Objects (FDO)
- Zoë Hollingworth (2022): FAIR Digital Objects 2022 Conference – Challenges with terminology
- Louise Preston (2022): FDO2022 Conference – human and social factors in data and metadata management
International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC)
- Zoe Warner (2022): IDCC 2022 - Digital Preservation and Reuse: You can’t have one without the other
- Thandokazi Maceba (2021): IDCC21/RDAVP17: An out of this world data curation and digital preservation experience
- Iram Safdar (2021): IDCC21 Keynote: Indigenous Sovereignty of Language Data – The Mãori Example
- Evanthia Samaras (2021): An eye-opening opportunity: Report from the 16th International Digital Curation Conference
- Alexandra Mitchell (2020): IDCC Keynote: The Internet of Things and IDCC Session: Selecting efficient and reliable preservation strategies
- Hannah Smith (2020): IDCC 2020 Dublin - ‘Identifying Opportunities for Collective Curation During Archaeological Excavations' and IDCC Session: ‘Long-term data preservation data lifecycle, standardisation process, implementation and lessons learned’, Iolanda Maggio
- Judith Carr (2020): IDCC 2020: Becoming the ‘new normal’ is a good thing, but it is going to take time and IDCC 2020: Do we need to agree on how to say potato
- Clare Mulhall (2018): Notes from IDCC 2018 - Day One and Notes from IDCC 2018 - Day Two
- Odile Dumbleton (2017): International Digital Curation Conference 2017 Edinburgh
International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) Web Archiving Conference (WAC)
- Ndahambelela Hertha Iipinge (2024): Reflections on my first IIPC WAC, Paris 2024
- Barbara Fuentes (2023): IIPCWAC23 – The ’Crème de la Crème of’ Web Archiving work
- Dorota Minkiewicz (2023): Where long-term preservation and web archives meet - IIPC WAC 2023
No Time To Wait Symposium Conference, MediaArea
- Elizabeth Thompson-MacRae (2024): Future Present, Future Past – NTTW8 in Karlsruhe
- Mzodidi Tutuka (2023): Exploring the Frontiers of Digital Preservation: Insights from the NTTW7 Conference in Prague
- Nigel Bryant (2022): Tapping the (Open) Source – No Time To Wait 2022
Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) Digital Directions Conference
- Amy Ibbotson (2023): Digital Directions – providing direction and reflection
- Angélique Bonamy (2023): Take-aways from NEDCC Digital Directions 2023: Inclusive online training for anyone working with digital collections
- Mzodidi Tutuka (2022): Reflections Following an Online Training Conference: 2022 NEDCC Digital Directions
- Ruth Schieferstein (2022): Digital Directions: Insights from a Virtual Conference
- Fabi Barticioti (2022): Digital Directions: A whistle stop into the NEDCC's annual conference
- Megan Joyce (2020): NEDCC Digital Directions Conference 2020 – “Digital preservation is technology enabled but human driven”
Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) Conference
- Rachel Tropea (2019): PASIG 2019, 12-14 Feb, El Colegio de México, Mexico City (part 1) and PASIG 2019, 12-14 Feb, El Colegio de México, Mexico City (part 2)
- Matthew Zawadzki (2017): Reflections on PASIG 2017, Oxford
- Simon Whibley (2017): PASIG 2017 - A Twitter Retelling
PV Ensuring long-term Preservation and Adding Value to Scientific and Technical Data Conference
- Nick Bywell (2023): PV2023 Conference - Notes on the preservation and dissemination of data created by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN
Research Data Management Forum (RDMF), Digital Curation Centre
- Fatima Darries (2021): Reporting on RDMF21: Data Stewardship in Research Institutions
Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) Archiving Conference
- Paul Shields (2023): IS&T Archiving 2023 – Notes on two emerging imaging and archiving threads
- Gemma Evans (2022): Reflections on Imaging, Visualisation and Artificial Intelligence from the IS&T Archiving 2022 Conference
- Caroline Lebre (2021): Back to basics at IS&T Archiving 2021: Tailoring Quality Assurance Workflows to your Digitisation Project
- Annette Le Roux (2021): Reflections on Operation Night Watch: the largest research and conservation project of one of Rembrandt’s finest works
Winter School for Audio-visual Archiving
- Ivan Dimitrovski (2020): Winter School for Audio-Visual Archiving 2020
- Sally Cholewa (2020): A day in the life of a Winter School for Audio-visual Archiving participant
Digital Futures Academy
Call for Contributions!
Previous DPC Career Development Fund (and Leadership Programme) recipients are invited to share what they learned from past funded opportunities. If you would like to share any relevant outputs (e.g. blog posts, case studies, reports) to add to this page, please email DPC Training & Grants Manager, Amy Currie, amy.currie[at]dpconline.org
Acknowledgements
The Career Development Fund is sponsored by the DPC’s Supporters, who recognize the benefit and seek to support a connected and trained digital preservation workforce. We gratefully acknowledge their financial support of this programme and ask applicants to acknowledge that support in any communications that result. At the time of writing, the Career Development Fund is supported by Arkivum, Artefactual Systems Inc., boxxe, Cerabyte, Evolved Binary, Ex Libris, Iron Mountain, Libnova, Max Communications, Preservica, and Simon P Wilson. A full list of supporters is online here.
