The ARA Section for Archives and Technology are a hosting a Digital Preservation Game Jam in collaboration with the University College London Information Studies Department.

This day-long in-person workshop will allow participants to work in teams to create both digital and analogue games with the goal to create engaging resources that encourage people to become more familiar with digital preservation concepts. 

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is owned and run by its members, renewing its leadership each year ensuring that members shape and oversee our programmes. We are pleased to announce a number of exciting changes for 2024:

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to give members a preview of the next in its series of Technology Watch Guidance Notes, Environmental Impact and Digital Preservation by Eira Tansey of Memory Rising, today.

The new Guidance Note gives readers a brief but wide-ranging introduction to how digital preservation activities can both affect, and be affected by, environmental change. The report examines the implicit assumptions of digital preservation, and identifies how changes in the environment might require us to re-think the risks we face and our plans to mitigate such threats.

The Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, invites submissions for the inaugural Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory conference, to be hosted at the University of London from 2-4 April 2025 in collaboration with colleagues from Aarhus University, the British Library, and the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme at the British Museum.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has launched an updated version of its Rapid Assessment Model (DPC RAM) today.

Designed to enable rapid benchmarking of an organization’s digital preservation capability, DPC RAM is a digital preservation maturity modelling tool which aims to be applicable for organizations of any size in any sector, and for all content of long-term value. It uses existing good practice to offer a model which is easy to understand, quick to apply and is freely available for anyone to use.

The PREMIS EC is seeking to fill up 3 vacancies on the Editorial Committee (EC). 

The EC meets monthly, with smaller EC working groups focusing on specific tasks–like outreach, rights statements, and other topics–meet regularly outside of the monthly EC meeting. It would be expected for EC members to be able to devote regular time to committee work. 

Please see the news item for more information. Apply by the end of March. For more information about the current PREMIS EC, please see their webpage. 

Jisc’s new dynamic purchasing system for digital preservation offers efficient and compliant solution for data management in the education sector.

Jisc has launched the digital preservation (DP) dynamic purchasing system (DPS) which offers a simple mechanism to encourage the take-up of digital preservation solutions.

We are pleased to announce that the Digital Repository of Ireland’s biennial conference, Digital Preservation for the Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities (DPASSH), will be co-hosted by the University of Limerick and the Hunt Museum in Limerick, Ireland on 27-28th June 2024. We invite papers, lightning talks and posters on the theme of Collections as Data / Data as Collections.

https://dpassh.org/call-for-papers-2024/

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to announce that Karyn Williamson joins its staff today, as Digital Preservation Analyst.

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Could you lead the new DPC Americas program of work?

In collaboration with the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), ITHAKA is seeking a Senior Manager for DPC Americas to lead a new program of work in the USA, which will support existing and new members across the region. The role of the new USA-based DPC-dedicated staff member will be to bring greater attention and access to good practice and excellence within the dynamic digital preservation community from across the Americas.