Digital Preservation Workflow Webinars 2026

Free to attend and open to all, the Digital Preservation Workflow Webinar series in March will showcase just some of the digital preservation workflow processes developed and implemented by the digital preservation community. Each speaker will present their workflow, which represents a part of the digital preservation process or a particular digital media or content type, before we open the floor for discussion and a chance to ask questions. 

Webinar Series Program

Monday 2^nd March

Episode 1 (14:00-15:30 UTC) click for local time

• Using Power Automate to catalogue records
  University of St Andrews - Elizabeth Thompson-MacRae
• Ingesting the Born-Digital Records of This is Croydon -  London Borough of Culture 2023-2024 
  Croydon Archives (Croydon Council) - Rachel Stevenson
• Internet Archive Backup in Michigan Digital Preservation Network
  University of Michigan- Library - Susan Borda            

Wednesday 4^th March

Episode 2 (21:00-22:30 UTC) click for local time

• Digital Preservation on HPC Clusters
  Digital Research Alliance of Canada - Amanda Tomé
• Describing Web Archives: An Interlinked Approach to Access and Outreach
  Library of Congress - Tracee Haupt Fugate, Carly Boerrigter, Lauren Baker
• Pathways to Preservation: Article Processing Workflows for the CLOCKSS Archive
  LOCKSS Program & CLOCKSS Archive - Meghan Frazer, Mary-Ellen Petrich, Carmen Cox

Thursday 5^th March                      

Episode 3 (22:00-23:30 UTC) click for local time

• Integrating Statistics Generation into Digital Preservation Workflows
  University of Washington - Mariecris Gatlabayan
• Low budget DP Workflow
  City of Newcastle (Australia) - Kerrie Shaw
• Low-Cost Digital Preservation Workflow for Under-Resourced Institutions based on Google Workspace
  Ministry of Culture and Francophonie of Côte d’Ivoir - Monné Victorine Loua 

Friday 6^th March                      

Episode 4 (14:00-15:30 UTC) click for local time

• Automatic import data generation - EMu
  Bristol Museums - Mark Pajak
• (Pre?) Ingest of Born-Digital Transfers
  Rockefeller Archive Center - Ima Oduok, Amy Berish
• We’re not toying around: Developing email archiving workflows with the James W. Toy papers 
  Bentley Historical Library - University of Michigan - Elena Colón-Marrero, Alexis Miettinen, Gideon Goodrich
  
  

Each episode will conclude with an introduction to the Community Owned Workflows (COW) COPTR wiki, as we invite speakers and participants in the webinars AND the wider digital preservation community to share their own workflows!  

Who should attend?

This series of events will interest:

• Those starting out in digital preservation and looking for workflow inspiration

• Those looking to find out more about simple workflow using free tools

• Those looking for ideas to improve or enhance their own workflows

• Those with workflows ready to contribute and discuss

Recordings

All presentations will be recorded and made available via this web page after the event. There will be a member preview for 6 weeks and then the recordings will be on general release. Please note – you do not need to register in order to access the recordings after the event.

Registration

Registration is open to all, with no charge. Registration for each episode will close 48 hours before the episode.

DPC events rely on having minimum numbers to run successfully and effectively. Low numbers may mean events may not be viable and will need to be canceled, so please check that you can attend before booking.

If you register for this event and find that you can no longer attend, you are welcome to send a colleague in your place. If you need to cancel, please email eleanor.oleary@dpconline.org with the event name. If cancelling please try to provide more than 48 hours notice before the scheduled event time.

DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy  

The DPC Community is guided by the values set out in our Strategic Plan and aims to be respectful, welcoming, inclusive and transparent. We encourage diversity in all its forms and are committed to being accessible to everyone who wishes to engage with the topic of digital preservation, whilst remaining technology and vendor neutral. We ask all those who are part of this community and attending this session to be positive, accepting, and sensitive to the needs and feelings of others in alignment with our DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy.