#DPClinic January - Relaunching COPTR!

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For over a decade the Community-Owned digital Preservation Tool Registry (COPTR) wiki has sought to provide a central home for digital preservation practitioners to pool information about useful tools.

From the start, the service has been a community collaboration project, with the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and the Open Preservation Foundation (OPF) working together to host the service, and updates to the system driven by pulses of project funding from a range of sources (including the Digital POWRR Project).

Unfortunately, in recent years, COPTR had succumbed to the Directory Paradox. User contributions had dropped, project funding was hard to find, the software the service runs on had become obsolete and insecure, and the pages were getting drowned in spam.

As part of the Registries of Good Practice project, the DPC and OPF have been working together to find a way forward.  We’ve carried out a user survey, looked at a range of options, and worked out a way we can officially relaunch the COPTR service and keep it running (for the next year or two anyway).

At this #DPClinic, the DPC and OPF team will talk about the history of the service, the 2025 User Survey results, the current service status and our ideas for the future.

But we can’t decide what to do without your help! If you care about COPTR, we want to hear from you. Please come along and help us work out how to give the community around COPTR a chance to come together, to grow, and to define the kind of COPTR we all need.

Who can use #DPClinic?

#DPClinic is available to everyone in the digital preservation community, DPC Members and non-members alike, provided all participants are respectful and supportive of one another and adhere to the DPC's Inclusion and Diversity Policy.

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DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy 

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