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The Digital Preservation Coalition is delighted to welcome Amy Currie to its staff, in the role of Training Officer.

Amy will manage training and skills services for members, covering the work of Sharon McMeekin – the DPC’s Head of Workforce Development - as she delivers the Novice to Ninja project with colleagues from The UK National Archives.

“Amy will help us continue to provide opportunities for our members to acquire, develop and retain competent and responsive workforces that are ready to address the challenges of digital preservation,” explains Sharon. “We’re very pleased to have her on board!”

The National Archives in the UK and the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) are collaborating in a project called ‘Novice to Ninja’, which will make online digital preservation training available to practitioners around the world later this year. The project is part of The National Archives’ new digital capacity building strategy, ‘Plugged In, Powered Up’.

Researched, developed and tested by experts within the digital preservation community, the Novice to Ninja training will be practically focused, aiming to equip learners with the skills required to implement a simple and proactive digital preservation workflow within their organization.

The DPC is delighted to announce registration is now open for the Briefing Day 'For Your Eyes Only: Scalable Approaches to Identifying, Managing, and Securing Sensitive or Restricted Information' on the 2 April 2020 in Salford.

iPRES has evolved into the main international conference on the preservation of digital objects. Having been held annually since 2004 in places all around the world, with iPRES2020 coming up in Beijing, China in Sep. 22-24 2020, iPRES2021 in Illinois, USA, Oct. 19-22 2021, and iPRES 2022 in Glasgow, Scotland, Sep. 12-16 2022, respectively, iPRES is now inviting bids by prospective conference hosts to run iPRES 2023, 2024 and 2025.

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The National Library of Luxembourg (BnL) has announced the launch of the website webarchive.lu, an information platform for the web archiving initiative for the Luxembourg web and access point for researching websites archived by the BnL.

In accordance with the Luxembourg legal deposit, the BnL collects and preserves websites from the « .lu » domain and other sites published by Luxembourg residents. Regular domain crawls are operated in cooperation with the Internet Archive. In addition, curated collections around specific events such as the 2017 local, 2018 national and 2019 European elections can be discovered on webarchive.lu, as well as thematic collections around cultural festivals in Luxembourg and the recent departure of HRH Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg. 

Connect to Collect: A Conference about collecting Social Digital Photography in Archives and Museums

19-20 March 2020

Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Members are invited to take up vacant positions on the DPC's four Sub-Committees.

Part of the Executive Board, the DPC has four Sub-Committees which oversee and shape its work.  Each is chaired by a Board Director and comprises a diverse group of 10-12 people from across the membership: colleagues at all points in their careers, across all the parts of the Coalition and across all the sectors and agencies the DPC represents. 

Each Sub-Committee meets quarterly for around two hours, normally by video conference, receiving reports about the DPC's work in specific areas, and reviewing plans for upcoming or new initiatives.  The Sub-Committees also filter and review grant applications and new or additional activities that arise throughout the year.  Each one is facilitated by a DPC staff member.

Members are advised that key dates for DPC Executive Board and Representative Council meetings, and other major events in 2020, are as follows: