Consultancy

Client testimonials

“The consultancy included a series of workshops that were thought-provoking, goal-oriented (so important!), and always resulted in productive conversations that led to tangible outcomes and practical strategies. It was also incredibly helpful to have one person guiding the consultancy from proposal through to the end. The consultant really dove into our situation, got to know it and us well, and provided us with several pathways to success.”
Lisa Muccigrosso, Iowa State University (2026)

"The DPC has been really helpful with our recent funding application. Karyn has been generous with her time, talking through what we need to do to develop digital preservation, providing her thoughts on improving our application, providing written support for our application and will be ready to assist us if and when we are able to start on the digital preservation journey."
Alison Diamond, Argyll Estates (2025)

Dr. Amy Currie

Amy Currie works in the strategic area of Workforce Development, supporting the development of digital preservation training and skills projects, management of career development opportunities, and research and collaborative studies. Her academic background is in information studies, cultural heritage, and psychology. She received her PhD from the University of Glasgow in 2021, where she had previously worked as a lecturer and teaching assistant in the Department of Information Studies before joining the DPC in 2020.

Specialisms: Training and Skills Development | Competency Assessments and Benchmarking | Research | Teaching and Instruction | Qualitative Approaches

Dr. Andrew N. Jackson

After his early career as a post-doctoral computational physicist and high-performance computing consultant, Andrew shifted to working on digital preservation as part of the PLANETS and SCAPE EU-funded research projects, hosted at the British Library. He later became the Technical Lead for the UK Web Archive, with overall responsibility for the technical design and implementation of that petabyte-scale preservation and access service. In 2024, after more than a decade of experience delivering digital preservation services at the British Library, Andrew joined the Digital Preservation Coalition to work on the Registries of Good Practice project, pursuing a new research agenda focussed on understanding the systems of people and information that make digital preservation possible.

Specialisms: Technical Architecture | Research | Tools & Formats | Web Archiving | Information Infrastructure

Sarah Middleton

Sarah is a CIM accredited Marketing and Communications professional, who began her career in proposals management where she excelled in strategic and persuasive writing. Having worked with international teams in various roles Sarah has extensive experience in developing winning proposals and campaigns for clients in the UK and overseas. Now the DPC’s Chief Community Officer, she is responsible for promoting and raising awareness of digital preservation through and with international stakeholders, whilst supporting and fostering an active and growing community of members around the world.

Specialisms: Marketing | Persuasive Writing | Communications | Community Engagement | Advocacy

Jenny Mitcham

Jenny has worked in digital preservation for over 20 years. She gained hands-on digital preservation experience at the Archaeology Data Service where she worked directly on the preservation of a range of complex data types, built dynamic web interfaces for disseminating data, developed documentation and workflows and led certification efforts. In a later position at the Borthwick Institute for Archives she led digital preservation efforts, managed system implementation projects, carried out research data management training and projects and managed a range of archive and library digitization projects and services. She joined DPC staff in 2018 where she was one of the original authors of the Rapid Assessment Model and led the development of several of the DPC’s online toolkits.

Specialisms: Maturity Modeling | Certification | Digitization | Research Data Management | Policy and strategy | Environmental impact | Preservation approaches

Michael Popham

Prior to joining the DPC, Michael spent 25 years working for the University of Oxford, holding senior roles in both IT Services and the Bodleian Libraries, where he was the Head of Digital Collections and Preservation until 2020. Michael was previously Director of the Arts and Humanities Data Service Centre for Literature, Languages, and Linguistics, based at Oxford, and subsequently Head of the Oxford Digital Library. He has led several major digitization and digital preservation projects, and coordinated the Bodleian’s participation in the Google Books Library Programme.

Specialisms: Policy and strategy | Digitization | Libraries and Special Collections | Very long-term Storage Technologies | Digital Preservation Theory and Practice | Digital Humanities

Garth Stewart

Garth leads the DPC Good Practice Team, working to understand what good practice in digital preservation looks like, and how this knowledge might be shared. Garth worked in various archives and records management roles since 2008, in the UK, Ireland, and Greece. Prior to coming to the DPC in 2025, he was Head of the Digital Records Unit at National Records of Scotland for over 6 years; leading on digital archiving service evolution, team development, and policy foundation. He is a Registered Archivist with ARA and holds an M.A. with Distinction from the University of Liverpool. 

Specialisms: Policy and strategy | Archives and public records | Web archiving | Procurement | Information infrastructure

Dorothy Waugh

Dorothy is Head of Workforce Development at the Digital Preservation Coalition, where she leads work relating to professional development, training, and skills development for the digital preservation community. Before joining the DPC, she worked at the University of York as Digital Preservation Archivist, and previously as Digital Archivist at Emory University. She has also taught as a lecturer for the San José State University School of Information. 

Specialisms: Training and Skills Development | Competency Assessments and Benchmarking | Teaching and Instruction

Karyn Williamson

Karyn holds a master’s degree in Archives and Records Management from the University of Dundee and a Post Grad Cert in Digital Information Management from University College Dublin. She is a Registered Archivist who has worked in various archives across Scotland. She is currently a Digital Preservation Specialist with the Digital Preservation Coalition. Her research interests are outreach and advocacy and open-source digital preservation.

Specialisms: Planning | Policy-making | Community Archives | Benchmarking | Evaluations

Service 

Time Required 

Indicative Cost 

Digital Preservation Policy Support and Guidance

2.5 days equivalent

£1250 + VAT 

½ day RAM workshop and report production 

1.5 days equivalent 

£750 + VAT 

Digital Asset Register Support and Guidance 

5 days equivalent 

£2500 + VAT 

Training

Project dependent

£500 per day + VAT 
Number of days required will be agreed and documented in a proposal.

Bespoke digital preservation advice and guidance

Project dependent

£500 per day + VAT 

Number of days required will be agreed and documented in a proposal.