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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Vacancy for Assistant Director at National Archives of Australia 13 March 2026 Join the National Archives of Australia as an Assistant Director in our Digital Archives Preservation & Research Section. Read Article
What Happens in Zagreb … Gets Shared as Open Data: 10 Takeaways from IDCC26 MO Michael O'Connor Last updated on 12 March 2026 Michael O’Connor is the Research Data Librarian at Queen’s University Belfast. He recently attended the IDCC 2026 Conference with support from the DPC Career Development Fund Go to Blog

#DPClinic March - ARK Persistent Identifiers

17 Mar 2026 - 12:00AM

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ARK persistent identifiers: affordable, inclusive linking infrastructure for long term cultural heritage

The average URL breaks in 100 days, which ...

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