Meet the winners
Four agencies walked away with awards for their exceptional contribution to ensuring the long-term security of digital collections:
The University of Freiburg and partners with ‘bwFLA Functional Long Term Archiving and Access.’
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2014 winner of the OPF Award for Research and Innovation
presented by Ed Fay, OPF and Sandra Collins, Digital Repository of Ireland
The bwFLA (Functional Long Term Archiving and Access) project provides distributed, scalable and cost-effective cloud-based ‘emulation as a service’ preservation framework. The judges were commended the project for its ability to enable convenient access to emulation technology for preservation of born-digital assets.
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Alasdair Bachell from the University of Glasgow with ‘Game Preservation in the UK.’
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2014 Winner of the DPC Award for the Most Distinguished Student Work in Digital Preservation
presented by Dave Tarrant, ODI and and Tim Gollins, The National Archives
Alasdair’s work builds on a report of preservation practices carried out by the video games industry, and examines the video game industry's attitudes towards preservation in the UK. The judges were impressed with the recommendations for the games archival community the report provided and that the work represented such a comprehensive study of records management practices in the games industry.
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Adrian Brown for his ‘Practical Digital Preservation: a how to guide for organizations of any size.’
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2014 Winner of the NCDD Award for Teaching and Communications
presented by Marcel Ras, KB/NCDD and Ingrid Dillo, DANS
Based on his own experience of building operational digital preservation services in three different institutions, Adrian’s book ‘Practical Digital Preservation: a how-to guide for organisations of any size’ provides practical guidance tailored to smaller organizations. The judges said that this resource stood out for providing smaller organisation with the confidence, tools and knowledge to develop their own digital preservation capabilities.
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University of Manchester for their ‘Carcanet Press Email Archive.’
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2014 Winner of the DPC Award for Safeguarding the Digital Legacy
presented by Maureen Pennock, British Library and Paul Wheatley
The University of Manchester Library holds outstanding eighteenth and nineteenth-century literary correspondence collections, relating to Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Gaskell and others; a testament to the golden age of letter-writing. Judges were delighted with the way the Carcanet Press Email Preservation Project has ensured that some of the fruits of email’s golden age are similarly safeguarded for future generations.
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The contributions of nine other exceptional finalists were also marked in the ceremony introduced by Robert Kiley, Head of Digital Services at the Wellcome Library, one of the world's major resources for the study of medical history.
Digital Preservation Awards 2014 Finalists
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OPF Award for Research and Innovation
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bwFLA - Functional Long-term Archival and Access - University of Freiburg and Partners
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Jpylyzer, a JP2 validator and extractor - KB (National Library of the Netherlands) and Partners
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The SPRUCE Project - University of Leeds and partners
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NCDD Award for Teaching and Communication
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Skilling the Information Professional, Aberystwyth University
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Practical Digital Preservation: a how-to guide for organizations of any size, Adrian Brown
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Introduction to Digital Curation: An open online UCLeXtend Course, University College London
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DPC Award for the Most Distinguished Student Work in Digital Preservation
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Emulation v Format Conversion by Victoria Sloyan, University College London
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Game Preservation in the UK by Alasdair Bachell, University of Glasgow
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Voices from a Disused Quarry by Kerry Evans, Ann MacDonald and Sarah Vaughan, University of Aberystwyth and partners
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DPC Award for Safeguarding the Digital Legacy
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Conservation and Re-enactment of Digital Art Ready-Made, University of Freiburg and Rhizome
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Carcanet Press Email Preservation Project, The University of Manchester Library
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Inspiring Ireland, Digital Repository of Ireland
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The Cloud and the COW: establishing a framework for digital preservation in Wales, ARCW Digital Preservation Consortium
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The DPC extends grateful thanks to our international panel of Judges who made DPA2014 a possibility:
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Sandra Collins, National Library of Ireland
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Dave Tarrant, ODI
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Marcel Ras, NCDD
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Maureen Pennock, British Library
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Tim Gollins, The National Archives (UK)
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Dave Thompson, Wellcome Library
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Louise Lawson, Tate
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William Kilbride, DPC
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Paul Wheatley
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Rachel Bruce, Jisc
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Ed Fay, OPF
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Manuela Speiser, European Commission
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Steve Daly, BBC
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