The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) launched its new Strategic Plan for 2015-2018 at the 4C/DPC ‘Investing in Opportunity’ Conference at the Wellcome Trust yesterday.

“By realising its goals, the intention of the Strategic Plan is to sustain the Coalition’s vision to make our digital memory accessible tomorrow,” explains William Kilbride, Chair of the DPC.

This shared vision lies at the core of the DPC’s Strategic Plan, embodied in a new mission statement and supported by four strategic objectives.

Mission

‘We enable our members to deliver resilient long-term access to digital content and services, helping them to derive enduring value from digital collections and raising awareness of the attendant strategic, cultural and technological challenges they face. We achieve our aims through advocacy, workforce development, capacity-building and partnership.’

Strategic Objectives

Responding to the changing environment of digital preservation, the DPC will pursue four strategic objectives, to provide:

• Competent and responsive workforces ready to address the challenges of digital preservation
• A political and institutional climate responsive to the need for digital preservation
• Better tools, smarter processes and enhanced capacity in digital preservation
• Closer and more productive collaboration within and beyond the Coalition

The Strategic Plan lays out the direction for the DPC over the next three years, but also recognises that it is the very Coalition itself which enables the mission to be followed, and the vision achieved.

For more information about joining the DPC, visit the member page of the website and download the abridged version of the new Strategic Plan 2015 – 2018.