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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DPC Members’ Forum and Open Networking Event 2026: Edinburgh – Priority Registration for Members Now Open! 23 February 2026 This two-day event will take place on Wednesday 20 and Thursday 21 May 2026 as part of the DPC’s global Members Forum series, and is generously hosted by Historic Environment Scotland. Read Article
14 Things I Loved and Learned at iPRES 2025 Ruby L Martinez Ruby L Martinez Last updated on 13 February 2026 Ruby L Martinez is a PhD student at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and a Digital Preservation Assistant at Penn State. She attended iPRES 2025 with support from a DPC Career Development Fund grant. Go to Blog

#DPConnect Aus

27 Feb 2026 - 02:00AM

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