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.
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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DPC releases draft Carbon Footprint Toolkit for community comment and testing
26 March 2026
The new Toolkit provides a practical methodology to help organizations calculate the carbon footprint of their digital preservation activities. We are now inviting the community to test it and share feedback.
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Open Minds and Open Standards: Key Takeaways from Our DPC Supporter Panel on Pre‑Procurement
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.
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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.
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#DPConnect Americas
02 Apr 2026 - 06:00PM
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