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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REGISTRATION OPEN for DigiPres 2025 Conference 12 August 2025 The virtual conference, taking place October 9-10, will highlight the theory and practice of digital stewardship and preservation, data curation, the digital object lifecycle, and related issues. Read Article
A Snapshot of IIIF 2025: Key Takeaways from the Annual Conference Sebastiaan Schoonebeek Sebastiaan Schoonebeek Last updated on 6 August 2025 Sebastiaan Schoonebeek is Digital Collections Team Software Developer at University of York. He attended the IIIF 2025 Conference with support from a DPC Career Development Fund member self-identified grant. Go to Blog

#DPConnect

14 Aug 2025 - 02:00PM

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We're excited to announce a special hybrid edition of #DPConnect, hosted by two of our DPC Members in Dublin. Unlike our ...

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