Digital Preservation Awards 2026

The Digital Preservation Awards are underway! The biennial awards celebrate the work of our welcoming and inclusive global community which works together to bring about a sustainable future for our digital assets. Finalists will be announced on 8 June 2026!

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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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Making the Case for Digital Preservation: DPC unveils new Advocacy Toolkit in member preview 11 May 2026 The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has launched a member preview of its new Advocacy Toolkit today, offering a practical resource to help organisations make the case for digital preservation. Read Article
Digital Preservation Advocacy Toolkit is go for a DPC Member Preview! 🚀 Sarah Middleton Sarah Middleton Last updated on 11 May 2026 The new resource is grounded in lived experience across our community, designed to be used in real situations: whether you’re building internal buy‑in, shaping a campaign or translating technical needs into organisationa Go to Blog

National Libraries and Archives Special Interest Group (NatLA)

13 May 2026 - 06:00AM

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The National Libraries and Archives Special Interest Group (NatLA SIG) provides a forum specifically for National Libraries and National Archives to discuss their ...

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