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As 2024 draws to a close, it’s  time for DPC staff to take a break. What an exciting year it has been!

DPC’s mission is a welcoming and inclusive global community around digital preservation. We are deeply encouraged by the confidence members put in the DPC, and in each other. We’re now active in 25 countries with 17 new DPC Members and 2 new Supporters since the start of the year. This year also saw another action packed World Digital Preservation Day, and the kick-off of a bunch of new Special Interest Groups.

The DPC is seeking Members to join a focus group as part of a Member Support activity with the University of Sheffield. This initiative aims to investigate what good practice looks like for the deposit or transfer of digital content to an archive.

The DPC are establishing a new task force for 2025 with a focus on calculating and mitigating the carbon footprint of their digital preservation activities. The terms of reference for this new group can be found here. This group will meet monthly for a period of a year to develop and communicate good practices and standards for how to calculate the carbon footprint of their organization’s digital preservation activities.

The DAM and Museums event on February 6, 2025, will demonstrate how Digital Asset Management systems create meaningful connections between technology and art. Attendees will have opportunities to network with museums, cultural heritage organizations, and DAM community members while gaining insights from experienced practitioners and thought leaders. Registration for this online event is now open.

We're excited to announce our Digital Preservation Advent Calendar 2024 on Instagram. Each day in December until Christmas Eve, we're unwrapping another DPC resource to share with you.

Are you interested in Generative AI for Cultural Heritage (CH)? Are you concerned about potential harms of incorporating Generative AI within your sector? Join the PHAWM project in an upcoming ONLINE workshop on auditing Gen-AI for CH.

In this workshop, participants are invited to think about information required to audit harms, scenarios of how harm auditing would happen in their organisational context and propose how this information might be organised to facilitate auditing generative AI use in a Cultural Heritage context. Participants will generalise to one or two prioritised harms associated with metadata generation. They will incorporate this into the context of auditing scenarios aligning with Cultural Heritage workflows, finally leading to proposed layouts and designs.