The DPC has published today its response to the recent consultation from the Department for Culture Media and Sport on 'UK Online Publications'. 

The DPC has welcomed the progress which has been made by the Legal Deposit Advisory Panel on recommendations for collecting digital material and is eager that the momentum recently achieved is maintained so that continuing progress can be made. It warmly welcomes the proposal for regulation-based harvesting and calls for early implementation of this proposal, offering the assistance of the DPC in capacity building for staff and tools which this will necessitate. In terms of access, the DPC is clear that future access to the harvested materials at any level will be impossible without the safeguards that rigorous attention to preservation provides.

Click here for more details including the full text of the response.

The DPC Leadership Programme is offering scholarship to attend the Digital Preservation Training Programme in London at the end of March.  The deadline for applications is 12th March.  See the DPC Leadership Programme for more details including a brief description of the course, elgibility and how to apply. 

At its meeting today, the DPC Board approved the creation of a new Web Archiving and Preservation Task Force.

The DPC Web Archiving and Preservation Task Force will allow members to share best practice to support their local priorities. It will identify, examine and review current policy in web archiving and preservation. It will provide a mutually supportive environment for continued policy development for members and a mechanism through which non-members can engage with web archiving policy.  In this way the Task Force will help to ensure that our generation can carve an appropriate legacy from the complexity and volatility of the web.

Click here for more details including Terms of Reference, the roadmap for 2010-11 and membership.

Registration is now open for a briefing on continuting access and preservation of E-Journal content, London 26th April 2010.  Places are strictly limited so early registration is recommended. For more details including registration, see the Events section of the DPC website.