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Within the framework of the ARCHIVER pre-commercial procurement tender, between December 2020 and August 2021, three consortia competed to deliver innovative, prototype solutions for long-term data preservation. Two of them have been selected to continue with the pilot phase and deliver research ready solutions for long-term data preservation of research data, therefore supplementing a lack in the current European Open Science panorama. They have been announced at a Public Ceremony on the 29th of November 2021, virtually hosted by DESY.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has made the next in its series of Technology Watch Guidance Notes, on Wikidata for Digital Preservationists by Katherine Thornton, available on general release today.

The Digital Preservation Coalition is delighted to have presented Martin Weise of TU Wien with the iPres 2021 Award for Best Newcomer!

In an online presentation, William Kilbride and Sharon McMeekin of the DPC were joined by iPres 2021 host Zhexin Wu to make the award which could not take place in person, owing to the hybrid nature of the conference in October.