Digital Preservation Awards 2024

The Digital Preservation Awards are back for 2024! The bi-ennial awards celebrate the work of our welcoming and inclusive global community which works together to bring about a sustainable future for our digital assets. Watch the livestream on Monday 16 September, 1500 UTC / 1700 CET

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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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19th International Digital Curation Conference - Registration Now Open 15 October 2024 The 19th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC25) organised by the Digital Curation Centre, will take place in The Hague, the Netherlands between 17-19 February 2025. Read Article
Recap of IPRES 24: Embracing Digital Preservation with a Twist of Fun Sean Macmillan Sean Macmillan Last updated on 15 October 2024 For anyone new to the world of digital preservation, or anyone not new to digital preservation but lives in a cave on Mars, iPRES is the world’s premier digital preservation conference. Go to Blog

#DPConnect

18 Oct 2024 - 01:00PM

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Join #DPConnect on Fridays at 1300 UTC as a weekly online space to drop in and discuss all things digital preservation.

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