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DPC looks ahead: Strategic planning for 2022 – 2027
Added on 16 May 2022
The Digital Preservation Coalition is building a welcoming and inclusive global community, which works together to bring about a sustainable future for our digital assets. We are making progress towards a new strategic plan which encapsulates this vision, for adoption in August 2022.
Having been endorsed by the DPC Council and Subcommittees over the last twelve months, a draft document is now available for review by all DPC Members. The draft will be taken to the next DPC Council Meeting in its current form, including any comments added by DPC Members up to Friday 10th June.
DPC Members, please login to provide comment on the draft DPC Strategic Plan
Introducing Robin Wright: Thursday 19th May, 1500 AEST
Added on 16 May 2022
The Digital Preservation Coalition is excited to introduce our newest member of staff who takes up her post as Head of Australasia and Asia-Pacific from today - Robin Wright.
Based in our Melbourne Office, Robin will be arranging meetings and calls with all our members in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore over the next few weeks but DPC Members are also invited to meet Robin as part of an informal drop-in.
If you are a DPC Member and you are free Thursday 19th at 3pm AEST (5pm Wellington / 1pm Singapore / 6am Glasgow) come along to meet Robin and say hello!
If you'd like to attend, please contact: Robin DOT Wright AT dpconline DOT org.
DPC Competency Framework and Audit Toolkit - Member Preview and Recruitment for Pilot
Added on 6 May 2022
The DPC is pleased to open registration for a webinar* on 15th June 2022 to introduce its new Competency Framework and Competency Audit Toolkit (DPC CAT), which will be available for Member Preview from that date. DPC also invites expressions of interest from Members who would like to participate in a pilot of the new Competency Audit Toolkit to help further refine the resource before its public release later in 2022.
* Please note that this webinar will be repeated at two separate times to enable those in different time zones to attend. More details are provided below.
iPres looks to the Future: host cities announced for 2024, 2025 and 2026
Added on 5 May 2022
After an intense period of competition and rigorous assessment, the iPres Steering Group is delighted to announce that the following cities have been selected to host the conference in the years ahead:
DPC Procurement Toolkit 2.0 now available!
Added on 5 May 2022
The DPC is proud to announce the launch of version 2.0 of the DPC Procurement Toolkit with updated and brand-new content.
The procurement of third-party systems and services has become an essential component of many organizations’ digital preservation programmes, but it can be a challenging process requiring lots of effort with no guarantee of a good outcome.
Queen’s University Belfast joins the Digital Preservation Coalition.
Added on 22 April 2022
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to welcome Library Services at Queen’s University Belfast as its newest Associate member this month.
Founded in Belfast in 1845, the Library aims to ensure long-term access to digital content through the development of a strategy to support the acquisition, management, preservation and provision of access to born-digital and digitised content. With responsibility for the institutional repository as well as Special Collections and Archives, the Library has plans to implement both a Library Services specific Digital Preservation Policy, as well as a university-wide Digital Preservation Policy and long-term data management plan.
DPC Rapid Assessment Model: Turkish translation now available!
Added on 12 April 2022
[Türkçe versiyonu aşağıdadır]
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to share a Turkish translation of its Rapid Assessment Model (RAM), with thanks to Dr. Özhan Sağlik at Bursa Uludağ University in Turkey and Nathalie Defne Gier and Mustafa Ergül at Koç University in Turkey who generously donated their time to make the resource accessible.
Now available as a PDF download in Turkish, the second edition of the DPC RAM is a digital preservation maturity modelling tool that has been designed to enable rapid benchmarking of an organization’s digital preservation capability.
Robin Wright to join DPC staff in May as Head of DPC Australasia & Asia-Pacific.
Added on 12 April 2022
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to announce that Robin Wright will join its staff in May in the full-time role of Head of DPC Australasia & Asia-Pacific.
Robin joins the DPC most recently from Swinburne University of Technology where she manages the library’s Scholarly Resources team providing digital content licensing and acquisition, records management, copyright services and open access policy development.
American University in Cairo, Egypt joins the Digital Preservation Coalition
Added on 7 April 2022
American University in Cairo, Egypt (AUC) is the latest organization to join the Digital Preservation Coalition, as they become Associate Members.
The American University in Cairo was founded in 1919, and from the beginning considered enrichment of Egypt’s cultural life part of its mission, sponsoring lectures and other public programming featuring important thinkers and creative individuals. The major entry of The Rare Books and Special Collections Library of AUC Libraries into the area of preserving cultural heritage came with AUC’s acquisition of the personal library of pioneering scholar of Islamic Art and Architecture Sir K.A.C. Creswell in the 1950s which, with its rare and valuable book holdings, served as the core resource for the university’s Arab Studies offerings. The library’s holdings house important donated archival collections in various disciplines, include pioneer scholars in Islamic architecture, Egypt’s leading architects, world-class photographers, local Egyptologists, famous journalists and prolific artists as well as evidence of everyday Egyptians shaping their nation as in the 2011 revolution, for preserving cultural heritage materials.
Heriot-Watt University joins the Digital Preservation Coalition
Added on 31 March 2022
Heriot-Watt University is the latest organization to join the Digital Preservation Coalition, as they become Associate Member.
With campuses in Edinburgh, the Scottish Borders, Orkney, Malaysia and Dubai, the University is moving towards a digital only environment, which has been accelerated by the pandemic and remote working and teaching.




















































































































































