- ePADD, University of Stanford
- VeraPDF, Open Preservation Foundation
- Contributions towards Defining the Discipline, Sarah Higgins - Aberystwyth University
- Flashback: Preservation of legacy digital collections, British Library
Finalists for the DPC Award for Teaching and Communications are (in no particular order):
- Evidence-based postgraduate education in digital information management, University College Dublin
- Leren Preserveren (Learning Digital Preservation), Digital Heritage Network and Het Nieuwe Instituut
- Ibadan/Liverpool Digital Curation Curriculum Review Project, Universities of Ibadan and Liverpool
- The Archivist’s Guide to KryoFlux, Universities of Texas, Duke, Los Angeles, Yale and Emory
- 'Navigating the PDF/A Standard: A Case Study of Theses' by Anna Oates, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 'Preserving the past: the challenge of digital archiving within a Scottish Local Authority' by Lorraine Murray, University of Glasgow
- 'Essay on the record-making and record-keeping issues implicit in Wearables' by Philippa Turner, University of Liverpool
- Music Treasures, Stichting Omroep Muziek (SOM)
- Archiving Crossrail - Europe’s largest infrastructure project, Crossrail and Transport for London
- Heritage preservation of contemporary dance and choreography through research and innovation in digital documentation and annotation of creative processes, ICKamsterdam and Motion Bank
- IFI Open Source tools: IFIscripts/ Loopline project, IFI Irish Film Archive
- Cloud-Enabled Preservation of Life in the 20th Century White House, White House Historical Association Digital Library
- Design, Deliver, Embed: Establishing Digital Transfer in Parliament, UK Parliamentary Archives
- Local Authority Digital Preservation Consortium: Dorset History Centre, West Sussex Records Office, Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre
In the category of 'Safeguarding the Digital Legacy' The judges also offered a special commendation to the GI Press Collection