Career Development Fund
Through it's Career Development Fund (previously known as the Leadership Programme) the DPC offers members access scholarships and support for training and development opportunities.
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Exploring the Frontiers of Digital Preservation: Insights from the NTTW7 Conference in Prague
Mzodidi Tutuka is Principal Library Assistant, Digital Preservation, at University at Cape Town Library. He attended the No Time To Wait 7 conference with support from a travel grant from the DPC Career Development Fund, which is funded by DPC Supporters. Recently, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has afforded me the invaluable opportunity to attend a remarkable NTTW7 conference held in the captivating city of Prague. The event was a convergence of minds, a gathering of...
Call for Applicants: DPC Grant for IS&T Archiving 2024 in Washington, DC
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is pleased to offer a Career Development Fund grant for a DPC member to attend the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) Archiving 2024 Conference (#Archiving2024) taking place 9-12 April 2024 in Washington, DC, USA. This grant will cover 100% of the conference registration fees and provide a contribution towards travel and accommodation. More details are provided below. Grant applications are welcomed from DPC members until the...
Call for Applicants: DPC Grant for IDCC24 in Edinburgh
The DPC is pleased to offer a Career Development Fund grant for a DPC member to attend the 18th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC24) taking place 19-21 February 2024 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. This grant will cover 100% of the conference registration fees and provide a contribution towards travel and accommodation if attending in person. More details are provided below. Grant applications are welcomed from DPC members until the application deadline of 07:00 UTC on 9th...
Digital Directions – providing direction and reflection
Amy Ibbotson is Collection Management Archivist (Digital), Digital Archive Team, at Queensland State Archives. She attended the NEDCC Digital Directions 2023 Conference with support from the DPC Career Development Fund, which is funded by DPC Supporters. Thanks to the DPC Career Development Fund I was able to attend the NEDCC online Digital Directions Conference. While the conference was not time-zone friendly for those of us residing ‘Down Under’ (2am wake up thank you very much!), the...
Musings on the iPres 2023 Panel, “Policies, Risks and Strategies: A File Format Debate”
Taryn Ellis is Digital Preservation Technical Analyst at State Library of South Australia, a member of National and State Libraries Australia (NSLA). She attended the iPRES 2023 Conference with support from the DPC Career Development Fund, which is funded by DPC Supporters. As a relative newcomer to the field of digital preservation (so much to learn, so much to do!) I was keen to attend the iPRES 2023 Panel, “Policies, Risks and Strategies: A File Format Debate” chaired by Sam Alloing from...
iPRES: Contributing to the Digital Preservation Community
Chris Prom is Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign is proud to release the iPRES 2023 Proceedings on World Digital Preservation Day. We hope you find them profitable and useful for your work. Doing so is a fitting capstone to the community effort that underpins digital preservation work so evident during the iPRES 2023 meeting, held from September 19 -...
Digital Preservation Soup
Ailie O’Hagan is the Digital Preservation Officer at Queen’s University Belfast. She attended the iPRES 2023 Conference with support from the DPC Career Development Fund, which is funded by DPC Supporters. Starting with Digital Preservation is like making stone soup – the more we come together and pool our resources, the better we can sustain our staff and collections needs.
Rising to our Challenges as a Community - ASA 2023
Joyce Wong is an Archivist (Digital Preservation) at the National Archives of Singapore, National Library Board, Singapore. She attended the ASA 2023 Conference with support from the DPC Career Development Fund, which is funded by DPC Supporters. The iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground served as the backdrop for a remarkable gathering of professionals convened at the Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) 2023 Conference. I had the privilege of receiving the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC)...
DCDC 2023 – Radical Reimagining
Emma Burgham is Archivist at the Science and Industry Museum, Science Museum Group. She attended the DCDC 2023 Conference with support from the DPC Career Development Fund, which is funded by DPC Supporters. I am the Archivist for the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, which is one of five institutions making up the Science Museum Group (SMG). In July 2023, I attended the Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities (DCDC) conference, thanks to a DPC Career Development Fund...
Take-aways from NEDCC Digital Directions 2023: Inclusive online training for anyone working with digital collections
Angélique Bonamy is Associate Archivist, Sound & Film, at the National Railway Museum, Science Museum Group. She attended the NEDCC Digital Directions 2023 Conference with support from the DPC Career Development Fund, which is funded by DPC Supporters. In June I attended the NEDCC’s Digital Directions online training conference thanks to a Career Development Fund grant from the DPC. I am a film and sound archivist working in a group of museums with a wide range of collections. My...
Where long-term preservation and web archives meet - IIPC WAC 2023
Dorota Minkiewicz is Archivist, Long-term Digital and Web Preservation, at the Publications Office of the European Union. She attended the IIPC Web Archiving Conference with support from the DPC Career Development Fund, which is funded by DPC Supporters. On a rainy day in May, the Web Archiving community flocked to the Dutch city of Hilversum, where at the stunning home of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision this year’s IIPC Web Archiving Conference took place. It was my...
IS&T Archiving 2023 – Notes on two emerging imaging and archiving threads
Paul Shields is Photographer, Information Services at University of York. He attended the IS&T Archiving Conference with support from the DPC Career Development Fund, which is funded by DPC Supporters. I was asked to write a report about my attendance at the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) Archiving 2023 Conference in Oslo on 19-23 June. The difficulty with this is that there were so many fascinating individual talks from the digitisation of materials in Notre Dame...
IIPCWAC23 – The ’Crème de la Crème of’ Web Archiving work
Barbara Fuentes is Web Archiving Officer at National Records of Scotland. She attended the IIPC Web Archiving Conference 2023 with support from the DPC Career Development Fund, which is funded by DPC Supporters. I recently received a Career Development Fund Grant to attend the IIPC Web Archiving Conference in Hilversum. The conference was held at the colourful Institute for Sound and Vision and KB, National Library of Netherlands.
IIPCWAC23 – The ’Crème de la Crème of’ Web Archiving work
Barbara Fuentes is Web Archiving Officer at National Records of Scotland. She attended the IIPC Web Archiving Conference 2023 with support from the DPC Career Development Fund, which is funded by DPC Supporters. I recently received a Career Development Fund Grant to attend the IIPC Web Archiving Conference in Hilversum. The conference was held at the colourful Institute for Sound and Vision and KB, National Library of Netherlands.
Leaning into discomfort at AMaGA 2023
Liz Long is Assistant Director DAIR (Digital Archives Innovation and Research) at The National Archives of Australia. She recently attended the AMaGA 2023 Conference with support from the DPC Career Development Fund, which is funded by DPC Supporters. As a DPC grant recipient, I attended the Australian Museum and Gallery Association’s (AMaGA) conference in Newcastle from 16-19 May 2023. The theme, Discomfort: Brave conversations and new connections in changing environments, was largely...
IRMS2023 Conference – Digital preservation dreams and the shared drive nightmare
Bridie-Ann Carr is the Records and Information Manager at Imperial War Museums. She recently attended the IRMS 2023 Conference with support from the DPC Career Development Fund, which is funded by DPC Supporters. In mid-May I attended the IRMS Conference with support from the Career Development Fund. This year’s theme was ‘Embracing a New Information Generation’, which felt like a perfect fit, as I am new professional working with electronic records. I have wanted to attend a conference...
Call for Applicants: DPC Grants for NTTW7 in Prague
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is pleased to announce it is offering up to two Career Development Fund travel grants to support DPC members attending the 7th edition of The No Time To Wait Conference (#NTTW7), which will be hosted by the Národní filmový archiv and MediaArea.net on November 8th – 10th 2023 at Kino NFA Ponrepo in Prague, Czechia. These grants, detailed below, will contribute funding to help with the costs of travel for DPC Members attending the conference in...
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.
PV2023 Conference - Notes on the preservation and dissemination of data created by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN
Nick Bywell is the Digital Library Developer in the library of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He recently attended the PV2023 Conference at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) with support from the DPC Career Development Fund, which is funded by DPC Supporters. While at the PV 2023: Adding value (to) and preserving Scientific & Technical data conference, I heard the question posed “Does antimatter fall up or down?” It’s not the sort of...
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.