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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One Week to Go: World Digital Preservation Day 2025! 30 October 2025 This year’s celebration is extra special. For the first time ever, World Digital Preservation Day falls within the biggest conference in the digital preservation calendar, iPRES 2025, taking place in Wellington, Aotearoa Read Article
The Reel Deal: Why Audiovisual Heritage Matters Michael Popham Michael Popham Last updated on 27 October 2025 Discover why audiovisual heritage matters this World Day for Audiovisual Heritage! Explore DPC’s resources & join our Audiovisual Special Interest Group to connect, learn, and preserve the sounds and stories of our time. Go to Blog

iPRES Radio 2025

03 Nov 2025

Whether you are attending iPRES 2025 virtually, or you are simply curious about the latest in digital preservation, iPRES Radio provides a front-row seat to the global conversation happening in ...

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