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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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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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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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 Senior Programme and Communications Manager at Digital Repository of Ireland 1 May 2025 Applications are invited for the position of Senior Programme and Communications Manager as part of the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) team headquartered at the Royal Irish Academy (RIA). Read Article
Diskettes and Discussions: What We Learned from the Future Nostalgia Workshops Leontien Talboom Leontien Talboom Last updated on 1 May 2025 On the 26th of March, the Future Nostalgia project brought together two expert groups for a full day of workshops exploring the many joys - and headaches - of working with floppy disks. Go to Blog

#DPConnect

08 May 2025 - 02:00PM

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Join #DPConnect at 1400 UTC on the second Thursday of each month as a online space to drop in and discuss ...

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