Digital Preservation Masterclass: A Celebration of Good Practice, Innovation and Collaboration

All are welcome to join us for this exciting webinar mini-series as we take a deep dive into the very best of digital preservation practice and meet winners of the Digital Preservation Awards 2026! We will discover just what made them stand out in the judges' eyes, and learn more about each of their award-winning projects - with plenty of opportunity for the audience to ask questions and gather inspiration for your own work.

Program*

Episode 1: Tuesday 24th November 2026, 14:00 - 16:00 UTC (click for local times)

Speakers

• Pierre-Yves Burgi, CERN: 'An OAIS-Compliant Archiving Platform with DNA Connector within OLOS’
  Winner of the National Library and Archives Board, Singapore Award for Research and Innovation
  
  
• Manuela Pallotto Strickland, Aberystwyth University: 'Preserving Research Objects - Challenges and Requirements'
  Winner of the DPC Award for Most Distinguished Student Work in Digital Preservation
  
  
• Steve Daly, Sam Palmer, Andrew Hosgood, The National Archives (UK): 'PRONOM Refresh'
  Winners of the APTrust Award for Resilience, Maintenance and Continuity

Episode 2: Thursday 26th November 2026, 09:00 - 12:00 UTC (click for local time)

Speakers

• Andrea Kocsis, 'Digital Ghosts - Visualising Scotland's Web Archives'
  Winner of the KB National Library of the Netherlands Award for Teaching and Communications

• Piotr Gnyp, Adam Ziółkowski, Marcin Paczyński, GOG: 'Good Old Games (GOG) Preservation Program' 
  Winners of the Research Data Alliance Award for Most Outstanding Digital Preservation Initiative in Commerce, Industry and the Third Sector

• Sofie Ruysseveldt and Ruben Van Driessche, Digital Archives Flanders: 'From Basement to Citizen. An Integrated Approach to the Digitisation, Preservation and Access to Environmental Permits'
  Winner of the International Council on Archives Award for Collaboration and Cooperation
  
  
• Anna Eliseeva, Sasha M, Tamara V: 'Archive of Personal Testimonies: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine'
  Winners of the National Archives (UK) Award for Safeguarding the Digital Legacy

Special Guest

• Digital Preservation Awards 2026 Judge - Dr Hamad Abdulla Al Mutairi

* Program and times are subject to change. More details coming soon!

Discover the work of our 2026 Digital Preservation Awards Winners ahead of the webinars, ready to learn more! 

Who should attend?

This mini-series of webinars will interest:

• Anyone working in digital preservation and looking for inspiration

• Those looking for ideas to innovate within their own digital preservation work

• Those looking for ways to collaborate on digital preservation

Recordings

All presentations will be recorded and made available via this web page after the event.

Please note – you do not need to register in order to access the recordings after the event.

Registration

Registration will open soon. This event is open to all, with no charge.

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 emaileleanor.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.