The DPC Digital Preservation Award 2010 and ICON Conservation Awards deadline approaches - noon 30th July 2010.

The Digital Preservation Award celebrates the excellence and innovation that will help to ensure our digital memory is available tomorrow. It is one of a set of awards which are collectively called the Conservation Awards.  The Conservation Awards began in 1993 and their presentation is co-ordinated by a working party of the Institute for Conservation (Icon). There are five awards in total. The Digital Preservation Award has been run three times (2004, 2005 and 2007) Although based on the high level criteria of the Conservation Awards, the size of the community and the nature of the work it recognises means that the Digital Preservation Award is is distinctive in how it implements the criteria and eligibility.

A complete entry pack is now available for download from the DPA 2010 pages.

The judging panel for the 2010 awards: Kevin Ashley, Director, Digital Curation Centre; Adrian Brown, Assistant Clerk of the Record, Parliamentary Archives and previous winner; William Kilbride, Executive Director, Digital Preservation Coalition; Pip Laurenson, Head of Time-based Media Conservation, Tate; Zoe Lock, Lead Technologist for ICT, The Technology Strategy Board; Eefke Smit, Director for Standards and Technology, Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers; Dave Thompson, Digital Curator, The Wellcome Library; Matthew Woollard, Director Designate, the UK Data Archive; and Richard Wright, Senior Research Engineer, BBC