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It’s been just over a year since Elon Musk took over control of X (formerly Twitter), and the major changes that he has made to this popular social media platform have been hard to miss – especially for any organization hoping to archive and preserve posts. So for the last DP Clinic of 2023, a one-hour focussed discussion forum that is open to all, we thought it might be interesting to revisit the whole topic by exploring the question: “What are we going to do about Social Media?”

 Jane Winters of the School of Advanced Studies at the University of London was elected as the new Chair of the DPC Board at the Annual General Meeting of the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) today.

PRONOM v.115 and v.116 have now been released totalling 45 New PUIDs, 48 New Signatures and 82 New Updates. The release notes of the changes can be found here.

The container signature has also been updated.

Back in 2019 the DPC released a new maturity model for digital preservation as part of a project we were working on with the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. We called it our Rapid Assessment Model (DPC RAM) and we have been really pleased to see how widely used it has been across the digital preservation community. We reviewed RAM in 2021 and moved it to version 2 (read about what changed in RAM version 2 here). After another few years we think it is due for revision again.