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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?

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has released a new resource designed to provide guidance on the Requirements for procuring IT systems, as part of its Procurement Toolkit today.

Requirements for procuring IT systems proposes the requirements that should be considered when procuring an IT system (for example, an EDRMS, DAMS or GIS), that may ultimately contain at least some records or digital content that need to be retained beyond the life of the system.