News
New: Online ‘Member’s Lounge’ starting in January 2019
Added on 13 December 2018
Using the online conferencing platform Zoom, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) will offer its members exclusive access to a monthly ‘Member’s Lounge’ starting in January 2019.
In a change to the Fridays advertised in the DPC Prospectus, the first Member’s Lounge will open at 12 noon GMT on Thursday 31st January 2019.
With no need for registration, members are invited to drop-in for one hour of open discussion on a range of digital preservation themes, with the Member’s Lounge reopening on the last Thursday of every subsequent month.
Vacancy for Digital Archives Assistant at the Archaeology Data Service
6 January 2019
York, UK
£18,688 - £22,017 a year
Fixed Term
Vacancy for Head of Library Research Services at the University of Bath
2 January 2019
Bath, UK
£50,132 - £58,089 p/a
Vacancy for Senior Developer & Operations Specialist at the University of Cambridge
11 January 2019
Cambridge, UK
£36,261 - £48,677
Fixed Term
The Digital Preservation Coalition welcomes CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, as Full Member
Added on 5 December 2018
The DPC is delighted to announce that the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CERN, has joined the Coalition as a Full Member this month.
CERN has three main digital preservation interests: Scientific Data from CERN’s accelerators, notably the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), where the data volume at the end of LHC Run2 (end 2018) is over 300PB; Scientific publications, papers and articles; and CERN’s “digital memory”, including meeting minutes, photographs, video recordings and scanned legacy material.
Vacancy for Project Curator: Endangered Material Knowledge Programme at the British Museum
30 November 2018
London
£29,028 per annum
Fixed Term
Call for Contributions Open for iPRES2019
Added on 3 December 2018
The Call for Contributions for iPRES2019 is now open. iPRES is the premier international conference on the preservation and long term management of digital materials. The 16th International Conference on Digital Preservation will be held on September 16-20, 2019 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
You are invited to submit original contributions that describe practice- and theory-informed approaches to scientific models, daily practice, collaborative efforts, creative solutions, and the progress your organization has made in digital preservation.
Digital Preservation Awards 2018 – Winners Announced!
Added on 29 November 2018
In an exciting finale to the Digital Preservation Awards 2018, leading organisations and practitioners of digital preservation have gathered together for a spectacular awards ceremony at Amsterdam Museum, as part of an International Conference hosted by the Dutch Digital Heritage Network for World Digital Preservation Day on Thursday 29th November 2018.
Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg joins the Digital Preservation Coalition
Added on 29 November 2018
The National Library of Luxembourg, la Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg, has joined the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) this month, becoming the Coalition’s newest Full Member.
As part of its legal mission as a national heritage library, Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg (BnL) collects, catalogues, enriches and preserves all publications issued in Luxembourg as well as all those issued abroad relating to the Grand Duchy. Through its Digital Preservation project, the BnL ensures the management, availability and long-term preservation of digital publications, resulting from a digitization process, collection of born-digital material or through legal deposit.