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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Out now: DPC Prospectus 2025-2026 now available 31 July 2025 The prospectus is the DPC’s roadmap for the year ahead - an ambitious, community-driven plan which outlines upcoming publications, training opportunities, webinars, specialist briefings and supporting resources! Read Article
Digital Preservation at the National Museum of Australia: Introducing the Changeable and Digital Team Andrew Martin Andrew Martin Last updated on 30 July 2025 The NMA's team marks its first anniversary, having established a new Digital Preservation Policy, a Lab for digital preservation activities, initiated an AV digitization strategy, and joined the EaaSI network. Go to Blog

Preservation Registries Special Interest Group

07 Aug 2025 - 06:00AM

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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 ...

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