Join us in celebrating World Digital Preservation Day 2026!!

On 5 November 2026, we invite you to join this year's theme: Save our Stories (SOS): Our digital heritage in danger. Together, we will highlight the importance of digital heritage and encourage action to protect the records, research, memories and cultural assets that shape our communities.

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Digital Preservation Consultancy

The Digital Preservation Coalition provides expert digital preservation consultancy services for both members and non-members. Our team offers guidance and support across key areas of digital preservation, tailored to organizations at different stages of their journey.

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Community

Our activities sustain and enable our community to collaborate and grow, and we maintain and refresh the social infrastructure which helps the community cohere as it expands. In doing so, we foster openness and challenge structural inequalities that constrain participation.

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Advocacy

We work towards a climate of public and institutional policy which is better informed and better inclined towards digital preservation.

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Workforce Development

We provide opportunities for our members to acquire, develop and retain competent and responsive workforces that are ready to address the challenges of digital preservation.

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Good Practice

We support our members towards greater maturity in digital preservation by delivering knowledge exchange, continuous improvement, horizon scanning, advice on standards, authoritative publications, and engaging and informative events.

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Accountable, Sustainable, Dynamic Governance

We remain accountable to members and responsive to their needs, particularly as the scale of our activities expand.

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We are building:
  • A digital preservation community which provides an effective platform for meaningful and sustained professional exchange.
  • A climate of public and institutional policy which is better informed and better inclined towards digital preservation.
  • Competent and responsive workforces that are ready to address the challenges of digital preservation.
  • Greater maturity in digital preservation through knowledge exchange, advice, authoritative publications and informative events.
  • Accountable and sustainable organizational functions and structures to ensure good governance.
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Digital Preservation Handbook

The Handbook identifies good practice in creating, managing and preserving digital materials. By providing a strategic overview of the key issues, discussion and guidance on strategies and activities, and pointers to key projects and reports, the Handbook provides guidance for institutions and individuals and a range of tools to help them identify and take appropriate actions.

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New annual statement provides current context for the Bit List in 2026 5 November 2026 This new statement offers the digital preservation community an opportunity to consider the existing Bit List through the lens of today's rapidly changing environment. Read Article
One collection that changed the way we work... Ailie O'Hagan Ailie O'Hagan Last updated on 5 November 2026 A collection of obsolete digital media became the catalyst for rethinking how we preserve born-digital materials. Go to Blog

#DPConnect Americas

05 Nov 2026 - 07:00PM

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