Digital Preservation Awards 2012 - shortlist announced

The shortist for the Digital Preservation Awards was announced at a reception in the House of Lords on Monday 8th October. 

The shortlist is as follows:

For an outstanding contribution to teaching and communication in digital preservation in the last 2 years:

• The Digital Preservation Training Programme, University of London Computing Centre
• The Signal, Library of Congress
• Keeping Research Data Safe Project, Charles Beagrie Ltd and partners
• Digital Archaeology Exhibition, Story Worldwide Ltd

For an outstanding contribution to research and innovation in digital preservation in the last 2 years:

• Data Management Planning Toolkit, The Digital Curation Centre and partners
• PLANETS Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services, The Open Planets Foundation and partners
• TOTEM Trustworthy Online Technical Environment Metadata Registry, University of Portsmouth and partners
• The KEEP Emulation Framework,       Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands) and partners

For the most outstanding contribution to digital preservation in the last decade:

• The International Internet Preservation Consortium
• The National Archives for the PRONOM and DROID services
• The Archaeology Data Service at the University of York
• The PREMIS Preservation Metadata Working Group for the PREMIS Standard