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DPC members are invited to cast their vote and decide the Digital Preservation Awards winners for 2020 as polling opens now!

The prestigious Digital Preservation Awards is the most prominent celebration of achievement for those people and organisations who have made significant and innovative contributions to maintaining a digital legacy and the finalists for this year’s set of categories have all been selected for their work to towards this goal.

Completing the set for all six awards categories, finalists for The DPC Award for the Most Outstanding Digital Preservation Initiative in Commerce, Industry and the Third sector are now revealed, with two exceptional initiatives which demonstrate digital preservation excellence in agencies that would not traditionally be considered to be ‘memory institutions.’

Finalists for The DPC Award for the Most Outstanding Digital Preservation Initiative in Commerce, Industry and the Third sector are (in no particular order):

• A new way of sharing nursing history – Royal College of Nursing member and public digital archives
• UNHCR Records and Archives

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The finalists for the prestigious Digital Preservation Award for Safeguarding the Digital Legacy are revealed today, with three more initiatives celebrated for their practical application of preservation tools to protect at-risk digital objects.

Finalists for The National Archives Award for Safeguarding the Digital Legacy are (in no particular order):

• Preserving the League of Nations digital archives
• UK Web Archive: celebrating 15 years
• Amplifying change: A history of the Atlantic Philanthropies on the island of Ireland

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The finalists for the National Records of Scotland Award for the Most Distinguished Student Work are now revealed, with three impressive individuals being recognised for their excellent work.

Finalists for The National Records of Scotland Award for the Most Distinguished Student Work are (in no particular order):

• Andrew Davidson with ‘Fraserburgh on Film’
• Badar Alrahbi with ‘The maturity level of digital preservation in Sultanate of Oman's institutions: a comparative study’
• Lotte Wijsman with ‘The Significant Properties of Spreadsheets: Stakeholder Analysis’

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The next set of finalists for the prestigious Digital Preservation Awards 2020 is revealed today, with four more creative initiatives being recognised for their achievements.

Finalists for the Dutch Digital Heritage Network (DDHN) Award for Teaching and Communications are (in no particular order):

• Creating Environmentally Sustainable Digital Preservation
• Digital Records Curation Programme
• Spanish Language Webinars Program in sound and audio-visual digital preservation of the Ibero-American Network for Digital Preservation of Sound and Audio-visual Archives (RIPDASA)
• Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation

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Our next set of finalists for the prestigious Digital Preservation Awards 2020 is now revealed, with another three innovative and impressive initiatives being recognised for their achievements.

Finalists for the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) Award for Research and Innovation are (in no particular order):

• Levels of Born-Digital Access
• DiAGRAM (the Digital Archiving Graphical Risk Assessment Model created by the Safeguarding the Nation’s Digital Memory project)
• Oxford Common File Layout (OCFL) v1.0

Read more about each of the Digital Preservation Awards 2020 finalists

The first set of finalists for the prestigious Digital Preservation Awards 2020 is revealed today, with three exceptional projects being recognised for their collaborative achievements!

Laura Molloy, Senior Research Lead at CODATA and Chair of the judging panel, said:

"Once again this year, the standard of applications was excellent.  We were delighted to receive more nominations than ever before, and to welcome more projects from across the globe for consideration.  The judges have had an enormous - and enjoyable - challenge deciding on a set of finalists.  We are very excited to share these with the rest of the community now and look forward to celebrating this excellent work in digital preservation through the Digital Preservation Awards."

#DPConnect has provided an ongoing, online presence at regular intervals each day as a way of connecting the global digital preservation community as we have continued to work in isolation.

As the DPC staff prepares for #WeMissiPres, the Digital Preservation Awards and World Digital Preservation Day, we will continue our break from captaining the #DPConnect sessions but encourage members of the digital preservation community to keep meeting and connecting in our absence!