The Winners will be announced at the Digital Preservation Awards ceremony on 15 October 2026, taking place at the No Time to Wait conference at the National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute (FINA) in Warsaw!
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.
Find out more about all of the Digital Preservation Awards 2026 Finalists
ICA Award for Collaboration and Cooperation: |
NLB Singapore Award for Research and Innovation: |
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KB National Library of the Netherlands Award for Teaching and Communications: |
DPC Award for the Most Distinguished Student Work in Digital Preservation: |
RDA Award for Most Outstanding Digital Preservation Initiative in Commerce, Industry and the Third Sector: |
The National Archives (UK) Award for Safeguarding the Digital Legacy:
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APTrust Award for Resilience, Maintenance and Continuity: |
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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 a glittering awards ceremony at the NTTW conference on Thursday 15th October 2026, hosted by the National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute (FINA) in Warsaw!
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.