Digital Preservation Awards 2026

The Digital Preservation Awards are back for 2026! The bi-ennial awards celebrate the work of our welcoming and inclusive global community which works together to bring about a sustainable future for our digital assets.

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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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Recognizing inspiring work in digital preservation: DPA 2026 nominations open 2 April 2026 Help us celebrate inspiring people and projects in digital preservation. Nominations for the Digital Preservation Awards 2026 remain open until 5 May. Read Article
Open Minds and Open Standards: Key Takeaways from Our DPC Supporter Panel on Pre‑Procurement Sarah Middleton Sarah Middleton Last updated on 23 March 2026 Across all the advice, examples and stories, one message stood out: The best procurement outcomes come from organisations that stay open to dialogue, to learning and to new ideas. Go to Blog

Preservation Registries Collaboration Cafés

02 Apr 2026 - 10:00PM

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The original idea of this group came out of the iPres 2022 “Registering our preservation intentions” workshop, where we proposed the idea of ...

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