Digital Preservation Awards 2026

The Digital Preservation Awards are almost here! Join us in Warsaw or watch the livestream on 15 October as we celebrate the finalists and reveal the 2026 winners.

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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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Hear directly from the Digital Preservation Awards 2026 finalists: Student Work 14 October 2026 Cornish heritage, scientific research and facial recognition in archives: watch the finalist video and read Rosa Methol’s blog to explore three student dissertations. Read Article
The ethical implications of introducing FRT into archival metadata description and catalogue search for photographic and audiovisual collections: A blog post Rosa Methol Rosa Methol Last updated on 14 October 2026 DPA2026 finalist Rosal Méthol reflects on her research into the ethical use of facial recognition technology in archives and the challenges of balancing innovation, access, bias, and accountability. Go to Blog

Digital Preservation Awards 2026 Ceremony

15 Oct 2026 - 04:00PM

Join us on the evening of Thursday 15 October as we celebrate the people and projects making outstanding contributions to digital preservation and reveal the winners of the Digital Preservation ...

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