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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Vacancy for Lead Engineer, University of Leeds 8 January 2026 The University of Leeds is seeking a dynamic and highly skilled Lead Engineer to lead the project work of a development team for Digital Library services. Read Article
Targeted automation for pre-ingest workflows at the UAL Archives and Special Collections Centre Erin Liu Erin Liu Last updated on 8 January 2026 Erin Liu is Assistant Archivist at University of the Arts London. She completed the Postgraduate Certificate in Applied Data Science at Birkbeck with support from a Career Development Fund Member Self-Identified grant. Go to Blog

#DPConnect

09 Jan 2026 - 02:00PM

Happy New Year! #DPConnect returns on Thursday 8th January as a 30-minute session to catch up on all your holiday news, and digital preservation plans for 2026.

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