The DPC Technology Watch Report series provides an advanced introduction to specific issues for those charged with establishing or running services for long term access. They identify and track developments in IT, standards and tools which are critical to digital preservation activities. They are commissioned by experts on these developments and are thoroughly scrutinised by peers before release. Authors are asked to provide reports that are informed, current, concise, and balanced; that lower the barriers to participation in digital preservation; that derive from the needs of Coalition members; and that are of utility to members and non-members alike.
Most Recent Reports
![]() by Betsy A Fanning |
by Sara Day Thomson |
by Gabriela Redwine |
There are currently 21 reports published in the series:
- Technology Watch Report 17-01: Preservation with PDF/A (Second Edition) by Betsy A Fanning 2017 (first edition below)
- Technology Watch Report 16-02: Preserving Transactional Data by Sara Day Thomson 2016
- Technology Watch Report 16-01: Preserving Social Media by Sara Day Thomson 2016
- Technology Watch Report 15-01: Personal Digital Archiving by Gabriela Redwine 2015
- Technology Watch Report 14-02: The Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model: Introductory Guide (2nd Edition) by Brian Lavoie 2014 (first edition below)
- Technology Watch Report 14-01: Preserving eBooks by Amy Kirchhoff and Sheila Morrissey 2014
- Technology Watch Report 13-4: Preservation, Trust and Continuing Access for E-Journals by Neil Beagrie 2013
- Technology Watch Report 13-3: Preservation Metadata (2nd edition) by Richard Gartner and Brian Lavoie 2013 (See also First Edition, 05-01 2005).
- Technology Watch Report 13-02: Preserving Computer-Aided Design (CAD) by Alex Ball 2013
- Technology Watch Report 13-01: Web-Archiving by Maureen Pennock 2013
- Technology Watch Report 12-03: Digital Forensics and Preservation by Jeremy Leighton John 2012
- Technology Watch Report 12-02: Intellectual Property Rights and Preservation by Andrew Charlesworth 2012
- Technology Watch Report 12-01: Preserving Moving Pictures and Sound by Richard Wright 2012
- Technology Watch Report 11-01: Preserving Email by Christopher J Prom 2011
- Technology Watch Report 09-02: File formats for Preservation, by Malcolm Todd 2009 (see also Ed Pinsent's discussion in the Digital Archive Blog and subsequent responses)
- Technology Watch Report 09-01: Preserving Geospatial Data, by Guy McGarva, Steve Morris and Greg Janée 2009
- Technology Watch Report 08-02: Preserving the Data Explosion: Using PDF by Betsy A. Fanning 2008 (Second edition above see also Press coverage on this report)
- Technology Watch Report 08-01: JPEG 2000 - a Practical Digital Preservation Standard? by Robert Buckley, Ph.D. 2008
- Technology Watch Report 04-03: Large-scale Archival Storage of Digital Objects by Jim Linden, Sean Martin, Richard Masters, and Roderic Parker 2004 (see also notes from a DPC Meeting on this subject held in York, UK April 2005)
- Technology Watch Report 04-02: Institutional Repositories in the context of Digital Preservation by Paul Wheatley 2004
- Technology Watch Report 04-01: The Open Archival Information System Reference Model: Introductory Guide by Brian F. Lavoie 2004
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