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    • 2nd SPRUCE Mashup London Tuesday, 18 - 20 September 2012
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    • What's New - Issue 53, March 2013
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    • What's New - Issue 32, December 2010
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    • DPC/PADI What's new in digital preservation - Issue 21
    • DPC What's new in digital Preservation - Issue 20
    • DPC What's new in digital preservation - Issue 19
    • DPC What's new in digital preservation - Issue 18
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    • DPC/PADI What's new in digital preservation - Issue 12
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    • Preserving Digital Art (March 2011)
      • About the event
      • William Kilbride: Introduction
      • David Duce (Oxford Brooks University): The Nature of the Problem
      • Kate Jennings and Pip Laurenson (Tate): Collecting, conserving and managing digital art-an institutional perspective
      • Leo Konstantelos (Glasgow University): Digital Art Online - perspectives on user needs, access, documentation and retrieval
      • Sarah Cook (CRUMB) and Jon Thomson (UCL): Curating, Commissioning, and Conserving - Digital Art in Practice
      • Perla Innocenti (Glasgow University): Preserving digital art - Art Theory, Methods and Experimental Applications
      • Brian Matthews (STFC): Preserving the software in software based art
      • Patricia Falcao (Tate): Software-based art from delivery to display - Case Studies from the Tate Collection
      • Discussion - notes and comments
    • DPC Planning Day 2013
    • 3D Laser Scanning: Seeking a New Standard in Documentation
    • SPRUCE Digital Preservation Mashup
    • PREMIS and METS: (almost) everything you wanted to know about Preservation Metadata
    • Getting Started in Digital Preservation (Glasgow)
    • Digital Preservation with Portable Documents: a workshop to introduce and discuss the PDF/A version
    • SPRUCE Hackathon: Unified Characterisation
    • Collaborative Approaches to Managing File Formats – a day of action
    • Digital Preservation: What I wish I knew before I started, 2013
    • Directors' Group 2012
    • Links that Last
    • Preserving e-mail
    • Business Preservation and Continuity Management
    • Digital Resilience and Preservation
    • Planning Day 2012 - Assurance and Practice
    • SPRUCE Digital Preservation Mashup
    • Trust and E-journals
    • Digital Preservation: What I Wish I Knew Before I Started
    • The Future of File Format Identification: PRONOM and DROID User Consultation
    • Intellectual Property Rights and Digital Preservation
    • Practical Tools for Digital Preservation: A Hack-a-thon
    • Preserving Email: Directions and Perspectives (2011)
    • Directors' Group 2011
    • Digital Preservation for Forensics
    • Revisiting Archival Principles from a digital preservation viewpoint
    • Revisiting Archival Principles
    • Data for Life: Digital Preservation for Health Studies
    • Getting Started in Digital Preservation (York)
    • Preserving Digital Sound and Vision: a briefing
    • Preserving Digital Sound and Vision: A Briefing
    • Preserving Digital Art: Directions and Perspectives
    • Getting Started in Digital Preservation (Cardiff)
    • Getting Started in Digital Preservation (Glasgow)
    • Getting Started in Digital Preservation (London)
    • DPC Planning Day 2011
    • JPEG 2000 for the Practitioner
    • Preserving Email: Directions and Perspectives (2010)
    • Decoding the Digital: A Common Language for Preservation
    • Decoding the digital: a common language for preservation
    • Designed to Last: Preserving Computer Aided Design
    • e-Journals are forever?
    • JISC 2010 Conference
    • JISC Conference 2010
    • Digital Preservation - The Planets Way
    • Digital Preservation - The Planets Way
    • Missing Links: the Enduring Web (Photographs)
    • Missing Links: the Enduring Web
    • Tackling the Preservation Challenge: Practical Steps for Repository Managers
    • OAIS 5 Year Review - Follow Up
    • Digital Preservation Planning: Principles, Examples and the Future with Planets
    • What to preserve? Significant Properties of Digital Objects (Photographs)
    • What to preserve? Significant Properties of Digital Objects
    • DP Awards 2007 Showcase and Shaping the DPC
    • DPC/BL Joint JPEG 2000 Workshop
    • E-Journal Archiving and Preservation Workshop
    • Digital rights and asset management : access and preservation forum
    • Joint Digital Curation Centre / Digital Preservation Coalition Workshop for OAIS 5 Year Review
    • DPC Briefing Day: policies for digital repositories
    • Joint DPC/DCC Forum - Policies for Digital Curation and Preservation
    • DPC Forum on Web Archiving
    • DPC Briefing on OAIS
    • DPC Meeting on Preservation Metadata
    • Report for the DCC/DPC Workshop on Cost Models for preserving digital assets
    • Report on the DPC Meeting on the large-scale archival storage of digital objects
    • Digital Preservation in Institutional Repositories
    • Digital Preservation: the global context
    • Archives: adapting to the digital age
    • Open Source and Dynamic Databases
    • Infrastructure and Development
    • Preservation of e-Learning Materials and Cost Models for Digital Preservation
    • Future R&D for Digital Asset Preservation
    • Digital Longevity: the lifespan of digital files (compiled for R&D in Digital Asset Preservation)
    • Digital File Longevity (compiled for R&D in Digital Asset Preservation)
    • Web-archiving: managing and archiving online documents and records
    • Digital Curation: digital archives, libraries, and e-science
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    • Member Registration Open for 'Preserving CAD' Event - IMechE, One Birdcage Walk, London - 26th July 2013
    • Presentations from Getting Started in Digital Preservation (Aberystwyth) now published
    • New web-archiving report tackles 'moving target' of preserving digital memory
    • The 4C consultation is now open!
    • Directors' Group 2013: 4th July, York
    • Conference Report: Screening the Future 2013
    • Deadline approaching to apply for DPTP Scholarships in May 2013
    • PREMIS and METS Event - Slides now available
    • Screening the Future, May 7-8 Tate Modern
    • Trust in Digital Preservation, Dublin 4-5th June
    • New ‘Preserving Computer-Aided Design (CAD)’ Technology Watch Report released to DPC members
  • What's New ...
    • What's New - Issue 53, March 2013
    • What's New - Issue 52, February 2013
    • What's New - Issue 51, December 2012
    • What's New - Issue 50, November 2012
    • What's New - Issue 49, September 2012
    • What's New - Issue 48, August 2012
    • What's New - Issue 47, July 2012
    • What's New - Issue 46, June 2012
    • What's New - Issue 45, May 2012
    • What's New - Issue 44, April 2012
    • What's New - Issue 43, March 2012
    • What's New - Issue 42, February 2012
    • What's New - Issue 41, January 2012
    • What's New - Issue 40, December 2011
    • What's New - Issue 39, November 2011
    • What's New - Issue 38, October 2011
    • What's New - Issue 37, September 2011
    • What's New - Issue 36, May 2011
    • What's New - Issue 35, April 2011
    • What's New - Issue 34, March 2011
    • What's New - Issue 33, February 2011
    • What's New - Issue 32, December 2010
    • What's New - Issue 31, November 2010
    • What's New - Issue 30, October 2010
    • What's New - Issue 29, September 2010
    • What's New - Issue 28, August 2010
    • What's New - Issue 27, July 2010
    • What's New - Issue 26, June 2010
    • What's New - Issue 25, May 2010
    • What's New - Issue 24, April 2010
    • What's New - Issue 23, March 2010
    • What's New - Issue 22, Feb 2010
    • DPC/PADI What's new in digital preservation - Issue 21
    • DPC What's new in digital Preservation - Issue 20
    • DPC What's new in digital preservation - Issue 19
    • DPC What's new in digital preservation - Issue 18
    • DPC/PADI What's new in digital preservation - Issue 17
    • DPC/PADI What's new in digital preservation - Issue 16
    • DPC/PADI What's new in digital preservation - Issue 15
    • DPC/PADI What's new in digital preservation - Issue 14
    • DPC/PADI What's new in digital preservation - Issue 13
    • DPC/PADI What's new in digital preservation - Issue 12
    • DPC/PADI What's new in digital preservation - Issue 11
    • DPC/PADI What's new in digital preservation - Issue 10
    • DPC/PADI What's new in digital preservation - Issue 9
    • DPC/PADI What's new in digital preservation - Issue 8
    • DPC/PADI What's new in digital preservation - Issue 7
    • DPC/PADI What's new in digital preservation - Issue 6
    • DPC/PADI What's new in digital preservation - Issue 5
    • DPC/PADI What's new in digital preservation - Issue 4
    • DPC/PADI What's new in digital preservation - Issue 3
    • DPC/PADI What's new in digital preservation - Issue 2
    • DPC/PADI What's new in digital preservation - Issue 1
  • Not so new
    • Preserving 3D Laser Scanning Data, Edinburgh 1st May: Registration Open
    • DPC offers scholarships to attend Digital Preservation Training Programme, May 2013
    • DPC joins new EU collaboration to clarify the costs (and benefits) of curation
    • Getting Started in Digital Preservation: now stopping in Belfast 10/07
    • 'Getting Started in Digital Preservation' workshop, Glasgow 10/4: now fully booked
    • Preservation Metadata Briefing, London 23/04: Priority registration now open for DPC members
    • Preservation Metadata Briefing, London 23/04: registration open for all
    • Notes and presentations from DPC Briefing on PDF/A3 now available
    • New 'Web Archiving' Technology Watch Report released to DPC members
    • DPC awards 8 scholarships to attend specialist training
    • Framing the Digital Curation Curriculum: Conference 6-7 May, Florence
    • Deadline for applications for DPC Scholarships, Friday 1200
    • Edinburgh University joins the DPC
    • Getting Started in Digital Preservation 2013: Registration Opens for 3 events April, May and June
    • Digital Preservation Coalition and Nestor sign landmark co-operation agreement
    • Notes and presentations from File Formats day of Action Published
    • Preservation and portable documents: a briefing on the PDF/ A3 standard
    • Digital Repository of Ireland joins the Digital Preservation Coalition
    • Invitation to Digital Preservation Mashups: March May and July 2013
    • New report released: Digital Forensics and Preservation
    • The Ghosts of Christmas Past: 12 festive tweets highlight link rot
    • DPC offers scholarships to attend the Digital Preservation Training Programme, March 2013
    • Bring out Your Dead (Files): Registration Open for Day of Action on File Formats, London 28th Jan
    • Registration Open for Digital Preservation Student Conference, London 24th January
    • Saving the digital decade: DPC rewards organizations helping to safeguard our digital memory
    • Annual General Meeting, 3rd December 2012
    • Informal Notes from Business Archives Council Conference
    • Informal notes from APA Conference
    • Digital Forensics and Preservation by Jeremy Leighton John: new report released for member preview
    • Voting Opens for Digital Preservation Awards 2012
    • New DPC Report on Intellectual Property Rights for Digital Preservation
    • Digital Preservation Awards 2012 - shortlist announced
    • DPC marks landmark 10th anniversary
    • DPC Awards Three DPTP Scholarships
    • Deadline approaching to apply for DPTP Scholarships
    • TIMBUS Project: Free Training Day on Digital Preservation of Business Processes
    • Outline of 2nd Edition Technology Watch Report on Preservation Metadata now available
    • Scholarships: Digital Preservation Training Programme, Dublin October
    • Matthew Herring, University of York on the DPC Leadership Programme
    • Scholarships: How to Set Up and Run a Data Service, November
    • Digital Preservation Awards 2012: Final Call for Nominations
    • Short Interview with Huw Jones, Cambridge University Library
    • DPC Prospectus 2012-13: the Coalition's Programme of Activities and Publications is released
    • Short Interview with Ian Savage, English Heritage
    • King's College London / Wellcome Trust Survey on Digital Collections
    • Links That Last : presentations now online
    • Cultural Heritage Online - Trusted Digital Repositories & Trusted Professionals, Florence, 11-12 December 2012
    • Second call for Nominations: Digital Preservation Awards 2012
    • Louise Lawson (Tate) on the DPC Leadership Programme
    • Outline of new report 'Preserving Computer-Aided Design' released
    • DPC and Workforce Development: New Video Released
    • Intellectual Property Rights and Digital Preservation: New report released to DPC members
    • Technology Watch Report on Web Archving - Outline finalized
    • Draft Outline for Comment: Preservation Metadata (2nd Edition)
    • Digital Preservation Awards 2012 - Call for Nominations
    • Links that Last, Cambridge 19th July 2012: Registration now open
    • SPRUCE Digital Preservation 'Mashup', London 18-20th September
    • Draft Outline for Comment: Web Archiving
    • Links That Last, Cambridge 19th July - Priority Registration for Members
    • Draft Outline for Comment: Preserving Computer-Aided Design
    • Notes and Presentations from 'Digital Preservaton and Digital Resilience' briefing now available
    • DPTP Scholarships May 2012
    • 3 new Technology Watch Reports planned - Web Archiving, Preservation Metadata and Preserving CAD
    • University of Manchester Library joins the DPC
    • SPRUCE Awards - First Call for Proposals Released
    • Royal Museums Greenwich joins the DPC
    • Notes from LIBER Workshop in Digital Preservation
    • Deadline Approaching for DPTP Scholarships: 1200 on Friday 11th May
    • New DPC Tech Watch Report: Preserving Moving Pictures and Sound
    • DPC Publishes Forward Work Plan 2012-2015
    • Outline of report on 'Preservation Trust and Continuing Access to E-Journals' now available
    • Planning Day 18th May 2012 - 'Assurance and Practice', registration now open
    • Digital Resilience and Digital Preservation, London 21st May: General Registration now open
    • Digital Resilience and Digital Preservation London 21st May: Registration Opens for Members
    • Happy Easter (office closed till Tuesday)
    • Manuscript of 'Curation, the Cloud and Cultual Heritage' released to members
    • DPC Offers Scholarships to attend Digital preservation Training Progamme in May 2012
    • Members' preview of 'Preserving Moving Pictures and Sound' Technology Watch Report
    • First 'SPRUCE' Digital Preservation Mashup, Glasgow 16-18 April
    • Email tomorrow … and next year … and forever: Preserving Email report published
    • DPC announces scholarships to Digital Futures Academy, London March 2012
    • DPC invitation to 'Curation in the Cloud' - London 7-8th March
    • Information Directorate at the University of York joins the DPC
    • Notes from POCOS 'Preserving Gaming Environments and Virtual Worlds' (Cardiff, January 26-27) now available
    • Trust and EJournals - Slides Now Available
    • Student Conference 'What I wish I knew before I started' - slides now available
    • SPRUCE Project - new initiative to support digital preservation
    • Member consultation on Technology Watch Report on Preservation, Trust and access to Ejournals
    • Deadline for Scholarship Applications for Digital Futures Academy: 9th January
    • Happy Christmas from DPC - Office closed till 3rd Jan 2012
    • Preserving Email: Technology Watch Report preview for members
    • New Wiki for DROID Consultation
    • London School of Economics joins the Digital Preservation Coalition
    • Trust and E-Journals Briefing, London 31st January: General Registration Now Open
    • Trust and E-Journals Briefing, London 31st January: Priority Registration for Members Now Open
    • TIMBUS Consultation on Business Continuity and Digital Preservation
    • What I wish I knew before I started: DPC Student Conference Jan 24th, London
    • DPC offers scholarships to attend Digital Futures Academy, London March 19-23rd
    • Papers for 2011 DPC Annual General Meeting
    • Slides from 'Intellectual Property Rights and Digital Preservation' now available
    • IPR Event - Change of Venue
    • DPC responds to Public Data Corporation and Open Data Consultations
    • Notes from Alliance for Permanent Access Conference (London 8-9th Nov) now available
    • IPR and Digital Preservation: outline now published for members
    • DPC awards 8 scholarships to attend Digital Preservation Training Programme
    • The Future of File Format Identification: PRONOM and DROID User Consultation, London 28th November
    • DPC Annual General Meeting confirmed: Belfast 1st December
    • Registration opens for ‘Intellectual Property Rights and Digital Preservation’: Bristol, 21 November 2011
    • Notes from POCOS Preserving Software Art Symposium (Glasgow, October 11-12) now available
    • DPC offers Scholarships to attend Digital Preservation Training Programme in November
    • Conference report from The Future of the Past of the Web now available
    • Intellectual Property Rights and Digital Preservation report: Draft Outline for Comment
    • Intellectual Property Rights and Digital Preservation, Bristol 21 Nov: member registration now open
    • DCC Research Data Management Roadshow: Brighton 4-6th October
    • Deadline extended for grants to attend UKDA training course
    • University of Leeds joins the Digital Preservation Coalition
    • DPC Responds to EU Science Policy Consultation
    • DPC to set up new Career Development and Training Task Force
    • DPC Prospectus 2011-12 released
    • The Future of the Past of the Web: London 7th Octber 2011
    • Members' views sought on intellectual property rights and digital preservation
    • Practical Tools for Digital Preservation: Registration Opens for DPC/OPF Hack-a-hon, York September
    • Outline of Digital Forensics report now available online
    • Server Maintenance to DPC Website Monday 1600, 11th July
    • Technology Watch Reports: New Editorial Board Announced
    • Comments Welcome on Draft Outline of report on Digital Forensics for Preservation
    • Preserving Email, London 29th July: Registration is Open!
    • PrestoCentre Training Course 2011
    • DigCurV Project survey: Digital Preservation Training in Europe
    • Preserving Email Briefing Day - Registration Opens for Members
    • Digital Forensics for Preservation Oxford 28th June: Registration Open
    • Two new staff join the DPC
    • Digital Forensics for Preservation: Registration Open for Members
    • Comments welcome on Draft Oultine of Sound and Vision Report
    • Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation
    • EC Digital Preservation Research 2013 onwards
    • Special offer to DPC members to attend 'ICE' Forum, London 29th June
    • DPC and Charles Beagrie Limited to collaborate on new Technology Watch Series
    • Revisiting Archival Principles - an invitation from the AIMS project
    • DPC Leadership Programme funds six members at the Digital Preservation Training Programme
    • Two new digital preservation projects - APARSEN and TIMBUS
    • Notes on EC funding plans for digital preservation research and innovation 2013 onwards
    • Getting Started in Digital Preservation - all slides now available
    • Portsmouth University joins the Coalition
    • Directors' Group 2011 - Oxford 27 June. Delegate registration available
    • Register now for 'Data for Life' (Newcastle 26th May 2011)
    • National Library of Ireland joins the Coalition
    • DPC Leadership Programme offers scholarships to attend DPTP, Glasgow 16-18 May
    • Preserving Digital Sound and Vision: Now Fully Booked
    • DPC and DigCurV: A new Framework for Vocational Education
    • Registration now open for Preserving Digital Art, Directions and Perspectives, London 30th March
    • Slides from Getting Started in Digital Preservation Now Available
    • Preserving Digital Art - 30th March - registration opens next week
    • Getting Started in Digital Preservation: 2nd stop Glasgow 28th Feb
    • DPC comments on DCMS regulations for Electronic Legal Deposit in the UK
    • Web Archiving and the Ghosts of Christmas Past
    • Happy Christmas from DPC: office closed from 23rd December to 4th January
    • UK LOCKSS Alliance joins the DPC
    • Getting Started in Digital Preservation: first stop London 4th February
    • New DPC Case Note: Assessing Long-term Access from Short-term Digitization Projects
    • DPC Releases Call For Proposals for Technology Watch Reports in Digital Preservation
    • DPC Planning Day, York 17th-18th January 2011
    • DPC draft respons to DCMS's consultation on legal deposit: comments welcome
    • Memento Project wins Digital Preservation Award 2010
    • Presentations from JPEG2000 for the Practitioner now available
    • All Papers for AGM (1st December) now available online
    • DPC Annual General Meeting 2010 - Agenda Released
    • New Case Note Released: practical preservation at West Yorkshire Archive Service
    • Board Meeting and AGM, 1st December, London
    • Voting Closes for Digital Preservation Award 2010
    • DPC releases five scholarships for the Digital Preservation Training Programme
    • Complete shortlist for the Conservation Awards announced
    • Digital Preservation Award 2010 Shortlist Announced
    • New Case Note : Small Steps - Long View. How a museum service turned an oral history headache into an opportunity
    • DPC Leadership programme releases scholarships for 'How to set up and run a data service' November 2010
    • DPC Leadership Programme releases grants to attend DPTP in October 2010
    • DPC Responds to Public Records Review Consultation
    • Presentations from 'Decoding the Digital
    • St Andrews University joins the DPC
    • New Digital Preservation Case Note released: how to keep data and metadata together
    • DPC Digital Preservation Award and ICON Conservation Awards deadline for applications approaches
    • Personal Membership of the DPC: Application Pack Released
    • HATII at Glasgow University joins the DPC
    • Third case note released: leadership and long term access
    • Designed to Last: Preserving Computer Aided Design (16/07/2010, London)
    • Digital Preservation and the JISC Digitisation Programme
    • Decoding the digital: DPC and BLPAC joint digital preservation workshop (London 27th July)
    • Web archiving and preservation task force completes survey of collecting policies
    • Changes to membership 2010-11: a message from the Chair
    • New Class of Membership for Consultants, Graduates and Sole Traders
    • Second Digital Preservation Case Note Released
    • DPC Launches Prospectus for 2010-2011
    • First Digital Preservation Case Notes Released
    • New Digital Preservation Frequently Asked Question section on the DPC website
    • DPC Response to IPO review of exceptions to copyright
    • 2010 Digital Preservation Award opens for expressions of interest
    • DPC Leadership programme awards 5 more scholarships for DPTP
    • DPC publishes response to consultation on electronic legal deposit
    • Deadline is approaching for scholarships to DPTP
    • DPC launches new Web Archiving and Preservation Task Force
    • e-Journals Are Forever? Registration now open!
    • Deadline approaching for prospective members to apply for Leadership Programme
    • e-Journals Are Forever? Joint DPC/Edina/JISC event, London 26th April 2010
    • Scottish Arts Council joins the Digital Preservation Coalition
    • Ariadne Article on Digital Preservation Road Shows 2009-10
    • New Agreement between DPC and British Library Preservation Advisory Centre
    • New Member - RCAHMS/RCAHMW joins DPC
    • New Year - and New Chair for DPC: Richard Ovenden
    • Archaeology Data Service joins the DPC
    • New Website Released
    • Dates Confirmed for Digital preservation Roadshow in Aberystwyth (22/1/10 and Cardiff (15/02/10)
    • DPC - Planets Workshop February 2010
    • DPC Leadership Programme scholarships for DPTP 2010-
    • File Formats for Preservation - Technology Watch Report
    • DPC Leadership Programme funds six member scholarships for Digital Preservation Training Programme
    • English Heritage Joins DPC
    • DPC Awards Digital Preservation Training Programme Scholarships
    • Mind the Gap
    • ICPSR become DPC Ally
    • PDF should be used to preserve information for the future
    • JPEG 2000 a great step forward for the archival community
    • International Conference, Permanent Access to the Records of Science organised by the EU Alliance.
    • Archived DPC and Digital Preservation Media Coverage
    • Library of Congress and DPC sign agreement
    • Future Research and Development for Digital Asset Preservation
    • Digital Preservation Launch at House of Commons Launch
    • Memorandum of Understanding with National Library of Australia
    • DPC Signs memorandum with the NPO
  • News from our Partners
    • Be part of the action – Collaborate with 4C and help to Clarify the Costs of Curation
    • ‘A very pragmatic European enterprise – reflections on cross border project involvement’ by Paul Stokes
    • ‘Cache in the Attic’ by William Kilbride
    • The Content Strategist as Digital Curator (from OCLC)
    • Short-Term Memory and Web Usability (from OCLC)
    • News from our partners
  • Vacancies
    • Vacancy at King's College London: Research Associate (Digital Preservation)
    • Vacancy at Trinity College Dublin / Digital Repository of Ireland: Systems and Storage Developer
    • Vacancy at the British Library: Digital Preservation Officer
    • Vacancy at The National Archives: Development Lead for Digital Records Infrastructure
    • Vacancy at London School of Economics: Senior Library Assistant (Digital Library)
    • Vacancies at King's College London: 'Knowledge Transfer and Sustainability Manager', and 'Community of Practice Co-ordinator'
    • Vacancy at National Library of Scotland: Digital Preservation Officer
    • Vacancies at Tate: Trainees in Time-Based Media
    • Vacancy at King's College London: Project Manager (PERICLES Project)
    • Vacancy at Warwick University: Digital Preservation Officer
    • Vacancy at the Bodleian Libraries: DAMS Software Engineer
    • Vacancy at GATES ARCHIVE: Digital Technologist
    • Vacancy at Yale University Library: Digital Preservation Manager
    • Two Vacancies at St Andrews University: Research Computing Advisor and Applications Developer
    • Vacancy / Secondment Opportunity at the DPC
    • Vacancy at Archives New Zealand: Senior Archivist
    • Vacancy at The National Archives: Digital Preservation Analyst Developer
    • Vacancy at Digital Curation Centre: Curation Tools and Services Developer
    • Vacancy at Digital Preservation Coalition: Senior Information Officer
    • Vacancy: Teaching Assistant at HATII, University of Glasgow
    • Two Vacancies at Archaeology Data Service: European Projects Manager and Communications Manager
    • Vacancy at University of London Computer Centre: Database/ Web Developer
    • Vacancy at Tate: Digital Preservation Manager
    • Vacancy at TATE: Conservation Technician, Time-Based Media
    • Vacancy at Archives New Zealand: Digital Preservation Analyst
    • Vacancy at Archaeology Data Service and Internet Archaeology: Fully-Funded Training Placement
    • Vacancy at British Library: Digital Preservation Software Engineer
    • Vacancy at Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington New Zealand: Assistant Digital Archivist
    • Two Posts at the British Library: Digital Preservation Technical Architect and Technical Lead
    • Vacancy at the British Library: Web Archiving Engineer
    • Vacancy at the British Library: Web Archiving Engagement and Liaison Officer
    • Vacancy at the British Library: Senior Software Engineer in Digital Preservation
    • Vacancy: Director of Curation Services, ICPSR (Univerity of Michigan)
    • Public Records Office of Northern Ireland - Digital Preservation Vacancy
    • Three Vacancies at the Open University: Project Manager, Project Officer and Metadata Manager
    • Vacancy - Digital Archivist at The Archaeology Data service (ADS), York, UK
    • Vacancy - Project Manager at University of Leeds - SPRUCE Project
    • Vacancy - Project Officer at London School of Economics
    • Vacancy at Archives New Zealand: Digital Continuity Manager
    • Vacancy at the University of London: Digital Repository Specialist
    • Vacancy at the UK Data Archive: Data and Services Developer
    • Digital Preservation Research Post at Cambridge University Library
    • Three Digital Continuity posts at Archives New Zealand
    • PhD Scholarship with TIMBUS Project, Zurich
    • Consultancy at Manchester University on Digital Preservation Strategy
    • Vacancy at British Library: APARSEN Project Officer
    • Vacancy: Digital Archivists at RCAHMS
• About
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  • DPC History
    • Towards a Digital Preservation Coalition
    • Digital Preservation Summit Jan 2001
    • Launch at House of Commons February 2002
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