In an exciting finale to the Digital Preservation Awards 2024, organisations and practitioners of digital preservation from around the world gathered together for a glittering presentation ceremony on Monday 16th September 2024, at the iPRES 2024 conference in Ghent, Belgium! Watch the ceremony now:
Collaborative models of care: preserving Australian First Nations digital cultural heritage
2024 Winner of the International Council on Archives Award for Collaboration and Cooperation presented by Gustavo Castaner and April Miller
Collaborative Models of Care was designed to provide a ‘best-practice blueprint’ for non- First Nations professionals wanting to contribute their digitisation and digital preservation skills, knowledge and expertise towards the care of digital cultural heritage held by and produced in Australian First Nations communities. Originally designed by Rebecca Barnott-Clement in the role of Digital Preservation Analyst and subsequently supported by Coby Edgar of Agency Projects, the project involved digitisation of archival assets for Bula’Bula Art Centre and the completion of a DPC RAM assessment (a tool to assess an organisation’s digital preservation maturity) for Bula’Bula Art Centre and Milingimbi Art Centre.
Improving access to and sustainability of the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)
2024 Winner of the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) Award for Research and Innovation presented by Lisa Griffith and Arif Shaon
The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) holds records from 1,370 small languages, mainly audio recordings made since the 1950s. It has 16,000 hours of audio in 230 terabytes of material in 428,000 files stored in Amazon S3. This year’s initiative is to move all items to Research-Object Crate format. RO-Crate allows the whole collection to contain self-describing items so makes it more durable over time, and less reliant on a catalog that is at risk of failure, with consequent metadata loss. This also means they can then be delivered on wifi from a Raspberry Pi device, even in remote offline locations.
Study group Bits and Bots for building digital skills
2024 Winner of the Dutch Digital Heritage Network Award for Teaching and Communications presented by Marjolein Steeman and Matthew Burgess
Bits and Bots is a study group teaching digital archivists coding skills, currently focussing on Python and front-end development. The group is open to all and everyone, including the organisers, are learning together as a community instead of in isolation. Digital skills are increasingly important to digital preservation and it is not surprising that “Computer Programming” is listed as one of the skill elements in the Digital Preservation Coalition’s Framework. Coding can be daunting, Bits and Bots tackles this challenge, making learning fun by teaching coding through the creation of games. The community consists of 47 members from 5 continents.
Claudia Muñoz with Preservación de documentos digitales: el caso de Wikimedia México / Preservation of digital records: the case of Wikimedia Mexico
2024 Winner of the CLOCKSS Award for the Most Distinguished Student Work in Digital Preservation presented by Alicia Wise and Thomas Ledoux
Mexican NGOs work on a wide variety of social problems related to technology, gender, violence, and support for social causes. However, their information and history, produced and disseminated in digital formats, are at risk because the organizations lack adequate digital preservation strategies to ensure the permanence and access of their information in the long term, which is aggravated by problems such as the digital divide or lack of budget. Therefore, Wikimedia Mexico, an NGO that promotes free access to knowledge, is taken as an example to establish digital preservation strategies according to its characteristics and context.
2024 Winner of the Research Data Alliance Award for the Most Outstanding Digital Preservation Initiative in Commerce, Industry and the Third Sector presented by Hilary Hanahoe and Mihaiela Donisa
Barts Health NHS Trust has implemented a specialist digital archive that ensures records from clinical trials are preserved, accessible and usable for their whole retention period (mainly 25 years). This service is now being extended to other NHS Trusts who are finding it difficult to procure an archive themselves; thus helping to preserve data within wider healthcare research and raising awareness of digital preservation in this area. Barts is at the forefront of digital preservation for research study records as this is a complex and challenging environment that is just starting to generate discussion.
2024 winner of the Award for Safeguarding the Digital Legacy presented by Sonia Ranade and Jo Ana Morfin
DDLD – living archive is the first and only repository preserving and cataloguing the work produced by killed journalists in Mexico. Over 163 reporters have been killed in Mexico since 2000. However, their work is largely unknown and faces the risk of disappearing, either because it was published in websites that lost their domain with the death of their founders or because their content was taken down from social media. Through the DDLD – living archive, over 19,000 published news pieces from 83 journalists killed in Mexico between 2000 and 2023 have been preserved.
Find out more about all of the Digital Preservation Awards 2024 Finalists
ICA Award for Collaboration and Co-operation:
Collaborative models of care: preserving Australian First Nations digital cultural heritage
Kip-Agenge: Reimagining Partnerships for Digital Preservation Keiyo Indigenous Knowledge for Future Generations
NDSA Staffing Survey Working Group
Digital Repository of Ireland Award for Research and Innovation:
Digital Archiving: Storage media prioritization methodology and tool
Disentangling Digital Preservation Risk with CHARM
Improving access to and sustainability of the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)
Play It Again: Preserving Australian Videogame History of the 1990s
Dutch Digital Heritage Network Award for Teaching and Communications:
Dungeons and Documents
Preserving Books for Future Generations
Study group Bits and Bots for building digital skills
The National Archives (UK) Award for the Most Distinguished Student Work:
Nicole Savoy with Assessing the Condition of Net Art Using Emulation as a Service (EaaS)
Alex Habgood with Bish Bash Backup: A Blog about converting metadata to PREMIS
Claudia Muñoz with Preservación de documentos digitales: el caso de Wikimedia México / Preservation of digital records: the case of Wikimedia Mexico
Nicole Hartland with Web Archives for All? Towards Equitable Access to UK Public Sector Web Archives
The National Archives (UK) Award for Safeguarding the Digital Legacy:
Arquivo.pt catalog of tools for digital preservation
DDLD – living archive
Digital Pasifik - Preserving stories, knowledge and tāonga
National Digital Newspaper Library of Mexico: preservation of digital heritage
RDA Award for the Most Outstanding Digital Preservation Initiative in Commerce, Industry and the Third sector:
‘A Lovely Day for Digital Preservation’: Guinness Archive adverts project
Cloud-based holistic digital preservation at HSBC
NHS research records: Reducing Risk
The DPC would like to thank our international panel of judges and all sponsors for their continued support in ensuring the Digital Preservation Awards can continue to recognise and celebrate achievements in the field of digital preservation.
Matthew Burgess
State Library of New South Wales
Hilary Hanahoe, Research Data Alliance (RDA)
April Miller
World Bank Group
Marjolein Steeman
Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed / Beeld en Geluid
Gustavo Castener Marquardt
International Council on Archives
Haliza Jailani
National Library Board Singapore
Jenny Mitcham
DPC
Nathan Tallman
Academic Preservation Trust
Fatima Darries
University of South Africa (UNISA)
William Kilbride
DPC
Jo Ana Morfin
Memórica - Archivo General de la Nación
Melissa Terras
University of Edinburgh
Mihaiela Donisa
Bank for International Settlements
Nicola Laurent
Australian Society of Archivists
Sonia Ranade
The National Archives UK
Heather Tompkins
Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
Lisa Griffith
Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI)
Thomas Ledoux
Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF)
Arif Shaon
Qatar National Library
Jessica Venlet
National Digital Stewardship Alliance / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
