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At the end of January 2023 the DPC contacted its Members to find out who would be interested in joining a new DPC Working Group for Museums and Galleries. We had a lot of interest - in fact even from Members who we weren’t aware were looking after collections of this nature. The group now has members from Australia, USA, UK and the Netherlands.

We held our first meeting in March 2023 and have met for an hour every other month since. Though we only advertise our meetings to those who are signed up for the group, we are keen that learnings from our discussions are more broadly shared with the wider digital preservation community. This blog post intends to do just that by summarizing the activities of our first year.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is pleased to offer a Career Development Fund grant for a DPC member to attend the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) Archiving 2024 Conference (#Archiving2024) taking place 9-12 April 2024 in Washington, DC, USA.

This grant will cover 100% of the conference registration fees and provide a contribution towards travel and accommodation. More details are provided below. Grant applications are welcomed from DPC members until the application deadline of 07:00 UTC on 30th January 2024. 

The DPC's Supporters programme is open to those organizations who provide tools and services to the digital preservation community. An up-to-date list of Supporters and further details of our programme can be found here.

Supporters are typically very familiar with the procurement process - either through sitting on the opposite side of it, or by working alongside the organization who is procuring (for example as a consultant). Like you, they are keen that the process of procurement, and the steps that are taken once procurement is complete, are as painless and straightforward as possible.

The DPC provide regular opportunities for Members to hear from Supporters in our annual Digital Preservation Futures webinar series and Supporter panels. Look out for these in our events programme. You may also explore previous sessions by following the links below:

• A Supporter panel session held in October 2023 was called “So I’ve finally procured a digital preservation system, now what?”. During this event, Supporters gave lightening talks offering advice and thoughts on what makes a smooth implementation. A recording of this session is available on the event page here (DPC Members and Supporters log in to access this). 

• Jenny Mitcham also wrote up a top ten list of tips that emerged from the session above as a blog post - “So I’ve finally procured a digital preservation system, now what?”: Takeaways from DPC Supporter panel.

• In our latest Digital Preservation Futures Webinar Series (2023) each Supporter organisation introduced their digital preservation offering, before either inviting the reflections of a customer guest speaker or by discussing key issues related to DPC Member needs through a dialogue with DPC staff and attendees (DPC Members and Supporters log in to access this).

Happy New Year DPC Members! We're looking forward to another packed 12 months of learning and sharing digital preservation, so here's how to have your say and connect with other members this year:

Happy New Year, and Happy New DPC too …

The DPC is owned by and accountable to its members so each January we invite nominations to the Executive Board which is responsible for corporate oversight, and volunteers for the Sub-Committees who review and guide our work. 

DPC has now confirmed the program of meetings for its Executive Board and Representative Council in 2024, as well as the Annual General Meeting.

The Representative Council is the ‘general assembly’ of the Coalition. It is formed by representatives of all our full members and it owns the DPC’s Strategy. In that role it receives the reports of DPC's 5 thematic subcommittees. The Executive Board is a smaller body recruited from the Representative Council and responsible for corporate governance.