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For International Love Data Week join the UK Web Archive and experts to explore how we can make sense of vast and varied web archives.

Monday 9 February, 18.30 – 20.00 UTC, Brontë Room, Knowledge Centre, British Library, London

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is pleased to announce the general release of a new Technology Watch Guidance Note: Coordinating an Interdepartmental Rapid Assessment Model today.

First released to DPC Members in December 2025, Coordinating an Interdepartmental Rapid Assessment Model has been authored by Kari May of the University of Pittsburgh Library System. The new Guidance Note provides a helpful case study, illustrating how one organization planned and carried out an interdepartmental assessment using the DPC’s Rapid Assessment Model (RAM), a tool for quickly evaluating digital preservation maturity and identifying priorities for improvement across eleven capabilities.

Happy New Year people of digipres!

This January, the DPC has a full program of community meetups, specialist groups and practical events, offering lots of opportunities to connect and learn more about current digital preservation practice.

Whether you are looking to make new contacts and chat with peers, develop technical skills or learn more about digital preservation, there is something on the DPC program for you this month. 

Each year, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) welcomes new voices to help guide our work—and this is your opportunity to get involved! We are inviting expressions of interest from DPC Members to join one of our six dynamic Sub-Committees or to become a Non-Executive Director on the DPC Executive Board.

As we wrap up 2025, DPC staff are getting ready to close our laptops and take a break. It has been an incredible year, and we are grateful to everyone across our global membership and wider digital preservation community who has shared their time, ideas, and enthusiasm with us!

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is pleased to be involved in the European Media and Born-Digital Art Conservation and Knowledge Network (EMBARK), a newly approved COST Action bringing together expertise in a four-year mission to safeguard media and born-digital artworks.

Running until 15 October 2029, EMBARK is the first pan-European initiative dedicated to preserving Europe’s media and born-digital art heritage. The project brings together museums, archives, universities, researchers, conservators, digital preservation specialists, artists, and technologists from more than 25 countries in Europe, with plans to grow the network further over the coming years.

The dates for meetings of the DPC Executive Board and the DPC Representative Council in 2026 have now been set. To support participation across our global membership, meeting times have been scheduled to suit different regions throughout the year. Details are outlined below.

DPASSH Conference 2026 (Digital Preservation for the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences)

Ready, Set, Preserve! Making Space for Play in Digital Preservation

in Belfast, Northern/Ireland 

DPASSH (Digital Preservation for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) is a biennial event by the Digital Repository of Ireland.The conference seeks to address the complexities of long-term digital preservation in the social and cultural sectors and provide a platform for early career researchers, academics, scholars, cultural heritage and research institutions, as well as libraries, archives and industry to engage with the domain and exchange ideas.