Digital Preservation Coalition

About these FAQs

These FAQs are derived from discussion on the DPC's various email discussion lists. They demonstrate the benefits of collaboration and show how DPC members are able to draw upon an extended and expert network of individuals and institutions to help resolve their own Digital Preservation challenges. 

We will publish and welcome direct questions of a technical nature which can be answered with specific and detailed answers.  Readers are encouraged to provide responses the questions asked and the answers provided. The advice that we publish in response to direct technical questions is provided as a free and informal service.  Copyright in the answers resides with the authors whose consent should be sought if you intend to copy or publish their advice.  We include the name of the institutions that participants work for because the working context can be a useful tool in understanding an answer.  This freely given advice does not create any liabilities or contracts between institutions or individuals or the DPC.