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The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has today released its complete three-part Technology Watch Guidance Note series, Cyber Security and Resilience for Digital Preservation, for general public access. 

Following an exclusive preview for DPC Members over the summer, all three Guidance Notes are now freely available to the wider digital preservation community.

Written by Heather Lowrie, Director of Resilionix, and Garth Stewart, Head of Good Practice at the DPC, the series responds to the increasingly complex cyber threat landscape faced by organizations responsible for preserving digital content. It brings together cyber security and digital preservation perspectives, providing practical guidance to help practitioners and organizational leaders understand cyber risks, strengthen resilience and preparedness, and safeguard long-term access to digital content.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to invite DPC Members to attend the DPC Members Forum and Networking Even - Australasia/Asia-Pacific, taking place on 29 and 30 October 2026 in Melbourne, Australia!

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is inviting nominations from its Full Members for two forthcoming vacancies on the DPC's Executive Board. The vacancies arise as part of planned leadership transitions, including the appointment of a new Chair and Vice-Chair.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is pleased to advertise a Career Development Fund grant to support a DPC Member attending the 2026 National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Digital Preservation Conference (DigiPres 2026), taking place virtually November 4-5, 2026 (Eastern Time).

This Career Development Fund grant will cover 100% of the registration fees for NDSA DigiPres 2026. Grant applications are welcomed from DPC Members until the deadline of 23:59 (anywhere in the world) on 31 August 2026. More details about the grant, eligibility, and criteria are provided below.

The National Archives’ Digital Archiving Department is undertaking a major refresh of PRONOM. For those unfamiliar with it, PRONOM is a file format registry whose data underpins many of the file format identification tools commonly used in digital preservation workflows, including DROID, Siegfried, Preservica and FIDO, among others.

The current PRONOM website and backend systems are nearly 25 years old and are becoming increasingly difficult to maintain, secure and develop in a sustainable and accessible way, so The National Archives has decided it is time to build a replacement.

A beta version of the new website is now available at https://pronom.nationalarchives.gov.uk, and the PRONOM team would welcome feedback as they work towards launching the new service. The team hopes that users will find it easier to use and more accessible than the previous website.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to congratulate our colleague Karyn Williamson, who has been named Record Keeper of the Year 2026 at the Archives and Records Association (ARA) Excellence Awards.