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.
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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Pictoscope joins the DPC Supporter Program
1 September 2025
"Providing access to digital materials is an important part of the digital preservation lifecycle, and we look forward to exploring how Pictoscope's tools can benefit our members", says DPC's Sarah Middleton.
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Pre-Appraisal Guide for “the stuff”
Rachel MacGregor and Lisa Lawlis are excited to share the Pre-Appraisal Guide for Staff and Donors.
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Preservation Registries Special Interest Group
04 Sep 2025 - 05:00PM
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The original idea of this group came out of the iPres 2022 “Registering our preservation intentions” workshop, where we proposed the idea ...