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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Participate in World Digital Preservation Day on Thursday 6 November 2025! 9 October 2025 Join us in a whole day dedicated to discovering digital preservation stories and answers to the question Why Preserve? and share your unique motivations through blogs, social media posts, events and creative activities. Read Article
Meet our new DPC staff members! Jenny Mitcham Jenny Mitcham Last updated on 1 October 2025 Get to know our new Head of Good Practice Garth Stewart and our new Head of Workforce Development Dorothy Waugh in conversation with Jenny Mitcham—on priorities, people, and what’s next for the DPC. Dive in! Go to Blog

#DPClinic October – Catalyzing African Community Archives for Social Good

14 Oct 2025 - 02:00PM

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Catalyzing African Community Archives for Social Good (CACASG) is a collaborative project of the University of Illinois, African archivists, the Digital ...

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