#DPConnect Aus

Please join us for #DPConnect Australasia & Asia-Pacific! Come along for a chat with our local DP community.

#DPConnect Aus will be held on:

• 21st February 2025 at 2:00am UTC (click for your local time)

• 21st March 2025 at 2:00am UTC (click for your local time)

• 16th May 2025 at 3:00am UTC (click for your local time)

• 20th June 2025 at 3:00am UTC (click for your local time)

• 18th July 2025 at 3:00am UTC (click for your local time)

• 15th August 2025 at 3:00am UTC (click for your local time)

• 19th September 2025 at 3:00am UTC (click for your local time)

• 17th October 2025 at 2:00am UTC (click for your local time)

• 19th December 2025 at 2:00am UTC (click for your local time)

#DPConnect is an informal space for digital preservationists to come and talk about what you are working on, share work problems and challenges – or just say hello! This month’s #DPConnect Aus will be hosted by Paul Wheatley, DPC’s Head of Research and Practice and Jack Wain, Digitisation and Preservation Coordinator at Deakin University.

Use the hashtag #dpconnectAus to discuss on social media.

Who can use #DPConnect?

• #DPConnect is open to everyone in the digital preservation community, DPC Members and non-members alike, provided all participants are respectful and supportive of one another and adhere to the DPC's Inclusion and Diversity Policy (see more below).

How to #DPConnect?

• To attend #DPConnect online - request the joining information by clicking the link below.

• Access will be provided via the DPC's online Zoom facility – you will be sent the Zoom link and can connect from any device with web access.

DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy 

The DPC Community is guided by the values set out in our Strategic Plan and aims to be respectful, welcoming, inclusive and transparent - the same applies to #DPConnect sessions. We encourage diversity in all its forms and are committed to being accessible to everyone who wishes to engage with the topic of digital preservation, whilst remaining technology and vendor neutral. We ask all those who are part of this community and/or attending a #DPConnect session to be positive, accepting, and sensitive to the needs and feelings of others in alignment with our DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy. 

Zoom may now require you to have a personal account in order to join a meeting. Therefore please could you register for an account in advance of #DPConnect, if you do not have one already. The sign up link is here: https://zoom.us/signup