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Member preview of new Technology Watch Guidance Note: Coordinating an Interdepartmental Rapid Assessment Model
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to give members a one-month preview of its latest Technology Watch Guidance Note: Coordinating an Interdepartmental Rapid Assessment Model by Kari May of the University of Pittsburgh Library System. This Guidance Note provides a helpful case study, illustrating how one organization planned and carried out an interdepartmental assessment using the DPC’s Rapid Assessment Model (RAM), a tool for quickly evaluating digital preservation...
New RAM Benchmarking Results 2025 Now Available!
Each year, DPC Members are encouraged to carry out a self-assessment using the DPC Rapid Assessment Model (RAM) and to share their results with us so that they can be collated, summarized, and shared back across the membership. Members can complete an assessment at any point in the year to fit their own schedule. The DPC RAM, a maturity model for digital preservation, helps organizations of all sizes assess and improve their capacity to preserve digital content. This year’s report provides a...