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Digital Preservation Documentation Guide: New DPC resource now available on general release
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has made its newest resource Digital Preservation Documentation: a guide available on general release today, following an exclusive Member preview.
Invitation to join our Python Study Group Launch & Information Session
Are you passionate about coding in Python, teaching others and supporting the digital preservation community? Or would you like to improve your coding skills and learn how to use Python for your digital preservation work?
Webinar on Immersive Media Preservation with Sound and Vision
As part of the research program of Sound & Vision on Immersive Media, Lieve Baetens has conducted research placement on strategies for the selection and preservation of Immersive Media in Cultural Heritage Institutions. You are all invited to join the free webinar organized by Sound & Vision on Tuesday 26 september (10:00 - 11:30 CEST) on Immersive Media Preservation.
Choosing a Persistent Identifier Type for Your Digital Objects: New Technology Watch Guidance Note now available on general release
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has made the next in its series of Technology Watch Guidance Notes, Choosing a Persistent Identifier Type for Your Digital Objects by Remco van Veenendaal of the National Archives of the Netherlands, available on general release today.
New DPC resource ‘Level-up with RAM’ now available on general release
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has made the resource Level-up with RAM available on general release today. Designed to enable rapid benchmarking of an organization’s digital preservation capability, the DPC RAM is a digital preservation maturity modelling tool which is applicable for organizations of any size in any sector, and for all content of long-term value. First released to DPC Members 6 months ago, this new companion resource is designed to help organizations work out...
Call for Applicants: DPC Grant for ASA 2023 National Conference in Melbourne
The DPC is pleased to offer a Career Development Fund grant for the hybrid 2023 Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) Rising to our Challenges Conference, taking place 4 - 7 September in Melbourne, Australia. This grant will cover 100% of conference registration as well as provide a contribution towards travel for those attending in person. Applications are welcomed from DPC members until the grant application deadline of 7:00 UTC on 30th May.
Call for Applicants: DPC Grant for ARA 2023 Conference in Belfast
The DPC is pleased to offer a Career Development Fund grant for the 2023 Annual Conference of the Archives and Records Association (#ARA2023), taking place from 30th August to 1st September in Belfast, UK. This grant will cover 100% of the Full Conference registration fees including two nights' accommodation. Applications are welcomed from DPC Members until the application deadline of 07:00 UTC on 23rd May 2023.
Time to get yourself N2KH-ready!
The newest training course in the Novice-to-Know-How series (N2KH) will be available soon. If you haven’t done the original N2KH Learning Pathway yet, now is the time! You might have already heard: for the past 4 months The National Archives in the UK and the Digital Preservation Coalition have been busy developing a new online training course on email preservation. The training is the latest in the digital preservation learning pathway “Novice to Know-How” and will be launched in June...
Call for Applicants: DPC Grant for DCDC 2023 Conference in Durham
The DPC is pleased to offer a Career Development Fund grant for DPC Members to attend the Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities (DCDC) Conference (#DCDC23), taking place 11-13 July, in Durham, UK, and online via EventsAir. This grant will cover 100% of conference registration and provide an additional contribution towards travel and accommodation if attending in person. More details about the grant are provided below, and applications are welcomed from DPC members until the grant...
£5.8 million project to deliver a more sustainable future for Open Access books
The Digital Preservation Coalition and Members are part of a new project that works to increase access to valuable research and is to receive more than £5.8 million in funding. Led by Lancaster University, the Open Book Futures (OBF) project will develop and support organisations, tools and practices that enable both academics and the wider public to make more and better use of books published on an Open Access basis. Open Access books can be accessed and used online free of charge.
A preoccupation with preservation policies
Preoccupation (noun) - an idea or subject that someone thinks about most of the time (Cambridge Dictionary) I guess this is a fair description of my relationship with digital preservation policies over the last week or so as we have been working on a revision of the DPC’s Digital Preservation Policy Toolkit. What has been so good about having a bit of time to focus on this subject is the extent to which community resources and organizational policies already exist and can be easily...
Digital Preservation Policy Toolkit 2.0 now available!
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has released a new version of the Digital Preservation Policy Toolkit to coincide with its Relaunch Roadshow in Australasia. Now freely available for anyone within the digital preservation community to use and designed for organizations of any type, the Digital Preservation Policy Toolkit guides users from initial research and preparation phases, through to drafting a policy, gathering feedback and communicating the finished policy.
Call for Applicants: DPC Grants for NEDCC 2023 Digital Directions online conference
The DPC is pleased to offer two Career Development Fund scholarship grants for members to attend the Northeast Document Conservation Center's (NEDCC) 2023 Digital Directions online from 27-29 June 2023. Each grant will cover 100% of the full registration fees. More details are provided below, and applications are welcomed from DPC members until the grant application deadline of 28th March 2023.
Call for Applicants: DPC Grant for IS&T Archiving 2023 Conference in Oslo
The DPC is pleased to offer a Career Development Fund grant for the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) Archiving 2023 Conference (#Archiving2023), taking place 19-23 June, in Oslo, Norway. The grant will cover 100% of the conference registration fee, provide a contribution towards travel and accommodation, and offer optional additional funding for one short course. More details about the grant are provided below, and applications are welcomed from DPC members until the...
FDO2022 Conference – human and social factors in data and metadata management
Louise Preston is a Project Officer at the National Archives of Australia. She attended FDO2022 with support from the DPC Career Development Fund, which is funded by DPC Supporters. Writing systems developed in Mesopotamia and other ancient societies to manage information because human memory simply could not store all information. It was a new and specialised field that began with only partial script. As writing and recording became more complex, the amount of information stored...
Investigating podcast preservation at the University of Kent
Clair Waller is Digital Archivist at the University of Kent Introduction The University of Kent Archive (UKA) is the repository for records created by Kent’s central administration and other constituent parts of the University. It was established in the year of our 50th anniversary, 2015, and has been developing in terms of scope, practice, and content since then. The UKA holds collects and preserves content from across the university, including papers on foundation and establishment of...
Adaptability in the face of adversity - Archiving the Web to Help Persons Forced to Flee
Tom Wilson is Associate Archivist at United Nations High Commission for Refugees. Introduction The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has a mandate to support and advocate on behalf of one of the most vulnerable groups of people in the world today. As one of the major issues facing the world today, the plight of refugees, internally displaced people, stateless people and other persons forced to flee is an ever-growing issue. Whilst the title of this post primarily...
Managing Digital Archives online learning course from ICA
ICA’s “Managing Digital Archives” online learning course is unique in the depth and breadth of content and in its accessibility and affordability to archivists, records managers and affiliated professionals around the world. It is learner-paced training which provides a thorough grounding in the management of archives in digital formats. By the time learners have completed the course they will have gained the understanding and knowledge they need to set up and/or run their own digital archives...
PRONOM Technical Registry
PRONOM is a file format registry which collects key data about file formats that can be used for the purposes of identification and reference, in support of preservation planning activities for digital records. The registry, first conceived in 2002, was made publicly available in 2005. As the UK government’s official archive, it is the responsibility of The National Archives (UK) to collect, preserve and make available the public records of the UK government. PRONOM was created when the need...
Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI): Supporting Collaboration, Cooperation and Community Building for Digital Preservation
For almost 15 years, the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) has been a model for collaboration, cooperation and community building in the multifaceted and maturing digital preservation landscape. What first started in 2007 as an idea to bring together emerging scanning and digitization expertise from US federal agencies has evolved into a global model for knowledge and resource sharing that not only services the cultural heritage community but also...