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The DPC is owned by and accountable to its members. Each January we ask members to make nominations to the Executive Board which is responsible for corporate oversight, and volunteers are invited from across the membership to join four of the five Sub-Committees who review and guide our work. 

Kate Murray of the Library of Congress was elected as the new Vice Chair of the DPC Board at the Annual General Meeting of the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) this week. Kate will be familiar to many people within the digital preservation community for her work on the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI), leading the Sustainability of Digital Formats resource, as well as for her role as co-chair of the Email Preservation Task force which DPC co-sponsored in 2016.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has released a Member Preview of the next in its series of Technology Watch Guidance Notes, A risk driven approach to Bitstream Preservation by Paul Wheatley, today.

A risk driven approach to Bitstream Preservation explores some of the challenges that must be addressed by a storage architecture designed for long-term digital preservation. It considers the risks faced by content stored over the long-term and concludes with a simple approach to assess and document the risks and mitigating actions put in place to address them.