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Campaign theme is « Designing the Archives in the 21st Century »

Designing the Archive is about putting people at the centre of what we do. The campaign theme will focus on how in the 21st Century our profession -data and information managers, records managers and archivists- can provides opportunities for human-centred design approaches to ensure we deliver benefits to citizens, customers, stakeholders and communities. This cross cuts, not only geographical boundaries, but sectors and industries; we want to hear from archivists representing architecture to fashion, engineering to environmental management, public-sector and private-sector.

The DPC invites members to participate in a series of important events designed to capture needs and requirements for the coming year, in support of their digital preservation activities. These events form part of our (now largely) online 'Connecting the Bits' and 'Digital Preservation Futures' program, the key activities for which are as follows:

• Full Members share lightning videos on their work and key challenges (29 April)
• Sub-Committees discuss priority actions and activities (May - June)
• Digital Preservation Webinar Series outlines service offerings in the context of Member concerns (14 - 23 May)
• Connecting the Bits Members Lounge Specials to validate DPC's program of activities for 2019-2020 (13 - 14 June)
• Digital Preservation Futures: Community Forum 2019 for networking and action planning (2 July)

A reminder of the process in full can be found here.

The DPC is pleased to announce it is offering five scholarships to help members attend iPRES 2019 in Amsterdam.

iPRES is the premier and longest-running conference series on digital preservation. Since 2004, annual iPRES conferences have been held in rotation around the globe on four continents. iPRES brings together 300-400 scientists, students, researchers, archivists, librarians, providers, and other experts to share recent developments, innovative projects and to collaboratively solve problems.
The 16th conference, iPRES 2019, will be held in Amsterdam, hosted by the Dutch Digital Heritage Network, from 16 through 20 September 2019.

The DPC is offering 5 scholarships to members that will cover full conference fees and a contribution towards travel and accommodation. First time attendees will be given preference, but applications are welcome from all who would be otherwise unable to attend.

Every year, the digital preservation community comes together to celebrate World Digital Preservation Day, with the aim of creating greater awareness of digital preservation!

Organized by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and supported by digital preservation networks across the globe, World Digital Preservation Day is open to participation from anyone interested in securing our digital legacy. Data creators, curators and consumers from around the world, DPC members and non-members alike, are invited to get involved and share stories of their own 'digital preservation day.'

This year, and from now on, World Digital Preservation Day will take place on the FIRST Thursday of every November. That means in 2019, we will be celebrating on Thursday 7^th November.

iPRES 2019 is excited to announce Portico and the Dutch Digital Heritage Network are generously sponsoring registration for attendees from under-represented countries.

To define under-represented, iPRES 2019 will use the World Bank’s income categories ‘low-income economies’ and ‘lower middle-income economies’. These bursaries are to expand the cultural diversity of the iPRES community and to encourage digital preservation experts from a diverse global constituency to participate, and to involve new participants in the application of digital preservation.