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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International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) 2026 - Call for Submissions Now Open 19 May 2025 The main theme of IDCC26 is AI, austerity, and authoritarianism: contemporary challenges in digital curation. Read Article
DRI Launches Digital Preservation Terminology: An Irish language glossary for Repositories and Archivists Maeve O'Brien Maeve O'Brien Last updated on 13 May 2025 Tá an liosta seo curtha ar fáil againn don phobal an Bhuanchoimeádta Dhigitigh mar fhoilseachán ar rochtain oscailte. Go to Blog

#DPClinic - Building Digital Preservation Skills Watch Party

03 Jun 2025 - 05:00AM

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In this Watch Party we revisit a recording from the #DPClinic in March 2025 from Sharon McMeekin which focused on understanding digital preservation ...

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