THE FINALISTS FOR THE DIGITAL PRESERVATION AWARDS 2026 HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED!
Organized by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) every two years, the Digital Preservation Awards are the leading international celebration of achievement in digital preservation. The Awards recognize the people, projects, and organizations making outstanding contributions to securing our digital legacy.
The Awards celebrate the work of a global community committed to collaboration, innovation, and long-term access to digital content. This year's finalists were selected from initiatives, projects, and collaborations completed between August 2024 and July 2026.
DPC Members are now invited to help choose the winners through the DPC Member Vote. Winners will be announced at the Digital Preservation Awards ceremony on 15 October 2026.
The Digital Preservation Awards categories
Click the listing to discover the great work of each of our 2026 Digital Preservation Awards Finalists!
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THE FINALISTSFuture Nostalgia: Safeguarding the knowledge of floppy disks IIM Africa Digital Preservation Capacity Building and Collaboration Initiative |
THE FINALISTSEOSC EDEN Core Preservation Processes (CPPs) An OAIS-Compliant Archiving Platform with DNA Connector within OLOS |
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THE FINALISTSBrazilian Training Program in Digital Preservation |
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THE FINALISTSThe Tutankhamun Spatial Archive Archive of Personal Testimonies: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine |
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THE FINALISTSCoreTrustSeal: A Global, Community-Driven Model for Trustworthy Digital Repositories |
DPC Members will also have the opportunity to submit recommendations for the DPC Fellow Award, which recognizes distinguished and sustained contributions to the field of digital preservation. Voting opens Tuesday 16 June! |
About the Digital Preservation Awards
Created in 2004 to raise awareness about digital preservation, the Digital Preservation Awards provide a rare opportunity to engage in high-profile advocacy, articulating nuanced messages about how and why one might engage in digital preservation. They enable the DPC, acting on behalf of the global digital preservation community, to endorse and celebrate outstanding work which may go unrecognized by others, and which may be little known among the senior managers of the agencies sponsoring this work. Therefore, nominations which have received recognition through other schemes such as the NDSA Excellence Awards are unlikely to be recognized again by the Digital Preservation Awards.
In its early iterations (2004, 2005, 2007 and 2010) the DPC sponsored a single award under the auspices of the Conservation Awards. In 2012, to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the Coalition, the DPC organized the Digital Preservation Awards under its own mandate, offering 3 awards. In 2014, a further 2 awards were offered and, in 2016, the DPC Fellowship was introduced for the first time. And in 2020 a new category allowing for an explicit celebration of collaboration was added. In 2022, we marked the DPC’s 20th Anniversary with another award which celebrates a continuing, substantial and impactful contribution to the digital preservation community in any form, over the preceding 20 years. In 2026, we are offering an exciting new category to recognize the vital work of maintaining the tools, services, and infrastructure that support digital preservation over time with the Award for Resilience, Maintenance and Continuity!
The exciting process will culminate in an awards ceremony on Thursday 15th October 2026.
We are very grateful to our sponsors and DPC Supporters for their generous contributions which enable the Digital Preservation Awards to take place:
If your organization would like to sponsor the Digital Preservation Awards please email angela.puggioni@dpconline.org.