Digital Preservation Coalition

Career Development and Training Task Force

The DPC strategic plan includes a high level objective to support members’ workforces through the provision of specialised training. Recognising the costs of provision and the very great range of expertise required, in 2009 the DPC established a ‘Leadership Programme’ which offered scholarships in order that members could send staff to attend training courses offered by third party providers. The DPC is in the process of establishing a group to examine how best to allocate funds from its Leadership Programme,  In order to make this process more transparent, it is therefore necessary to provide transparent mechanisms to assess whether or not a course is likely to deliver benefits to DPC members in line with the DPC's vision and values.

The DPC Career Development and Training Task Force will establish and monitor criteria through which training providers can access support from the DPC Leadership Programme. It will ensure that grants are awarded to credible and viable training courses of demonstrable quality that will help deliver the DPC’s strategic objective. It will identify, assess, monitor and promote short courses that provide informed and credible training in digital preservation and cognate fields.
In this way the Task Force will help to ensure that our members’ workforces are better supported with higher quality and ever more relevant training.

Draft terms of reference

Draft terms of reference have been prepared and approved by the DPC Board in advance of the initiation meeting scheduled for the last quarter of 2011. 

Membership

This informal group is open to all associates and full members of the DPC. A call for members will be announced in September 2011.  Please contact the DPC office if you wish to join this group.