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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Digital Preservation Coalition joins EMBARK, the first pan-European initiative to safeguard Europe's media and born-digital art heritage 17 December 2025 A new European collaboration brings together researchers, heritage institutions, and practitioners to preserve media and born-digital art — with opportunities to get involved through events and open calls. Read Article
AI-powered metadata workflows at the ICAEW Digital Archive CM Craig McCarthy Last updated on 17 December 2025 From missing metadata to AI-assisted description: learn how ICAEW explored AI to enrich digital objects and scale metadata workflows. Go to Blog

#DPConnect Aus

19 Dec 2025 - 02:00AM

Please join us for #DPConnect Australasia & Asia-Pacific! Come along for a chat with our local DP community.

#DPConnect Aus will be held on:

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