Community

Our activities sustain and enable our community to collaborate and grow, and we maintain and refresh the social infrastructure which helps the community cohere as it expands. In doing so, we foster openness and challenge structural inequalities that constrain participation.

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Advocacy

We work towards a climate of public and institutional policy which is better informed and better inclined towards digital preservation.

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Workforce Development

We provide opportunities for our members to acquire, develop and retain competent and responsive workforces that are ready to address the challenges of digital preservation.

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Good Practice

We support our members towards greater maturity in digital preservation by delivering knowledge exchange, continuous improvement, horizon scanning, advice on standards, authoritative publications, and engaging and informative events.

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Accountable, Sustainable, Dynamic Governance

We remain accountable to members and responsive to their needs, particularly as the scale of our activities expand.

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We are building:
  • A digital preservation community which provides an effective platform for meaningful and sustained professional exchange.
  • A climate of public and institutional policy which is better informed and better inclined towards digital preservation.
  • Competent and responsive workforces that are ready to address the challenges of digital preservation.
  • Greater maturity in digital preservation through knowledge exchange, advice, authoritative publications and informative events.
  • Accountable and sustainable organizational functions and structures to ensure good governance.
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Digital Preservation Handbook

The Handbook identifies good practice in creating, managing and preserving digital materials. By providing a strategic overview of the key issues, discussion and guidance on strategies and activities, and pointers to key projects and reports, the Handbook provides guidance for institutions and individuals and a range of tools to help them identify and take appropriate actions.

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Digital Preservation of the Scholarly Record Receives the 2026 Rosenblum Award for Scholarly Publishing Impact 17 February 2026 Recognizing the essential infrastructure that safeguards long-term access to scholarly research worldwide. Read Article
14 Things I Loved and Learned at iPRES 2025 Ruby L Martinez Ruby L Martinez Last updated on 13 February 2026 Ruby L Martinez is a PhD student at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and a Digital Preservation Assistant at Penn State. She attended iPRES 2025 with support from a DPC Career Development Fund grant. Go to Blog

#DPClinic February - How it Started/How it’s Going: 25 Years of Web Archiving at the Library of Congress

19 Feb 2026 - 07:00PM

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Last year, the Library of Congress celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of its web archiving program. At this #DPClinic, you can join ...

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