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The DPC is pleased to offer up to two Career Development Fund grants for members to attend the IIPC Web Archiving Conference 2023 (#IIPCWAC23), being held in-person at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision located in Hilversum, the Netherlands, from 11-12 May 2023.

Each grant will cover 100% of the registration fees as well as a contribution towards travel and accommodation. More details about the grants are provided below, and applications are welcomed from DPC members until the grant application deadline of 7:00 UTC on 14th February 2023.

DPC has now confirmed the program of meetings for its Executive Board and Representative Council in 2023, as well as the Annual General Meeting.

The Representative Council is the ‘general assembly’ of the Coalition.  It is formed by representatives of all our full members and it owns the DPC’s Strategy. In that role it receives the reports of DPC's 5 thematic subcommittees.  The Executive Board is a smaller body recruited from the Representative Council and responsible for corporate governance.  These groups will meet every three months in 2023 as follows:

The DPC is pleased to offer up to two Career Development Fund grants for members to attend the PV 2023 Conference – Adding value (to) and preserving Scientific and Technical data (#PV2023), taking place on 2-4 May at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN), in Geneva, Switzerland.

Each grant will cover 100% of conference registration fees as well as a contribution towards travel and accommodation. More details about the grants are provided below, and applications are welcomed from DPC members until the grant application deadline of 7:00 UTC on 7th February 2023.

The DPC is pleased to share a new calendar of upcoming 2023 Career Development Fund Grants, now available on the DPC website!

The calendar provides a list of all planned 2023 Advertised Grant Opportunities with information on the format, location, dates of event or course, and when the Call For Applicants will be announced via the DPC News page.

Following a 1-month exclusive preview for conference delegates, we are pleased to announce that all videos of the recorded sessions at iPres 2022 are now available on general release!

The DPC will be developing good practice guidance on the topic of digital preservation documentation over the next few months, but we cannot do this alone. We are looking for volunteers to join a focus group who will help us to brainstorm this topic. Questions we want to discuss include:

• What should we be documenting?

• How should we be creating our documentation?

• How should we manage changes to the documentation?

• What documentation should be preserved for the long term?